America has a reputation for bulldozing the past, but plenty of buildings here get a second act. Some transformations are so seamless you’d never guess what came before, while others keep their history on full display. In North Anderson, a massive storage facility falls into the latter category- the 73,000-square-foot building¹ spent thirty-seven years as a Kmart.

A few years back, I found myself driving through Anderson when I couldn’t resist pulling over at the long-shuttered Mounds Mall. At the time, rumors swirled that the place might make a comeback. Years have passed, though, and those plans never left the drawing board. Today, Sears -and the rest of the mall- remains frozen in time, empty and crumbling. It’s a ghost of a retail empire that once was.

Yorktown-based Marsh Supermarkets entered the booming, burgeoning convenience store market back in 1966. Fast-forward forty years, and they’d built a network of 154 Village Pantries across Indiana and Ohio! Many of the oldest have found second or third lives as something new, and I try to snap a quick photo whenever I drive past one.