The N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is a historic commercial building in Bend, Oregon, United States.

Because of its importance to the history of Bend, the Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

At the age of 34, Nichols Paul Smith came to Central Oregon to help survey the Bend town site for Alexander M. Drake, owner of the Pilot Butte Development Company.

In 1903, Smith and his wife, Cora Bell, opened a hardware store on the east side of Wall Street near the center of downtown Bend.

[1] In 1909, Smith built a new store across the street from his original location with an apartment upstairs so he could be close to his business.

Smith's new store sold a wide range of household goods including stoves and butter churns.

[1][2] When the Great Northern and Union Pacific railroads opened routes into central Oregon in 1911, a building boom began in Bend, and Smith's business prospered.

Smith was the local chairman of the Democratic Party and served on the election board for many years as well a bailiff for the Deschutes County Court.

The aluminum and plywood siding that had been installed over the years was removed, revealing the original façade still in excellent condition.

[1] The N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is an excellent example of a commercial building from Bend's earliest period of development.

[1][2] Because of its importance to Bend history, the N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 5 April 1984.

[4][8] Originally, the store front was faced with six inch horizontal lap siding, trimmed at the corners with 1-by-6 vertical wooden molding.

[1] In the Smith building, the ground floor is commercial space, originally housing a hardware store.

Like the ground floor, the light fixtures have glass shades and are suspended from the ceiling by drop-cords and the door hardware is brass.