Vogue Beauty Shop, 112 SW Barnard Street

In his day Maurice Marsh was one of the most popular ladies’ hairdressers in Glen Rose, entering the business as early as 1926. He served the community until going into the armed forces of the United States during the Second World War. Returning from military service, in 1946, he opened a salon called the “Vogue” in a small, drafty wood-frame building at the site of the present shop. In 1954 he and wife, Ina Mae Marsh, purchased the land on which the shop stood, tore down the old salon, and in its place erected the first commercial building in downtown Glen Rose in the then fashionable International Style. The flat-topped, brownish pink structure with a fixed plate glass window represented the height of modern style when the couple completed it in 1955. Maurice and Ina Mae Marsh had successfully moved their hairdressing business from a weathered little wooden shack into one of the nicest looking commercial buildings in all of Glen Rose. Since that time the well-built structure has continued to house hairdressing establishments.