The distinctive brick building at 800 6th Street in Greybull has seen a lot. Locals remember it as a junk shop, a place to throw rocks at windows and an architectural oddity deserving of restoration.

For Ken Gilbert, whose family has owned the property since the 1950s, it's time to let someone else write the next chapter.

"We don't have the time or the money to fix it up," Gilbert told Cowboy State Daily. He now lives in Michigan after growing up in Greybull and a long career in the mining industry. "I don't plan on moving back to Greybull, so I just want to sell it and let somebody fix it up and make something really cool out of it."

The building's history stretches back to Wyoming's early oil boom. It originally housed massive water pumps that drew from the Bighorn River.

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