The Icon's recent "So, you think you know Ada?" photo brought an explanation about the "Kipker 1968" block at the top of the building.

Jennifer Kipker provided the Icon with the following information:

The building is now owned by my husband, Bob Kipker, but was previously owned by his grandfather, Louis Kipker, Sr.

There had been another building beside it that burned down years ago, exposing a wall that wasn't intended to be exterior, therefore it was deteriorating.

Bob and his friend, Tim Rayl, spent 4 years replacing that wall, brick by brick, row by row.

The block in the picture was placed to commemorate the year his grandpa purchased the building.