Valentine opened a dry goods shop in the current day downtown Huntington.

[3] After years of rapid growth, in 1902 Valentine & Newcomb opened a three-store building on 3rd Avenue.

[5] In 1980 the building was purchased by Stone & Thomas, a United States chain of department stores based in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Sixteen years after opening, Stone & Thomas closed its Huntington location, due to Bankruptcy issues.

[6][7] After sitting abandoned, the building was purchased by Marshall University in 2013, to redevelop it into a home for their visual arts program.