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The S. B. Barker Building, at 333 S. Main St. in Condon, Oregon, is a historic Italianate style building that was built in 1903. It has also been known as the Dunn Brothers Inc. Building.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was deemed significant for association with prominent citizen Simon Barker and for its architecture. According to Gail A. Sargent, an architect writing the NRHP nomination for the building, it: honestly represents turn of the century architecture in Condon and Gilliam County, being the first two story brick building constructed and setting an example that other structures followed. Actually, the building's lack of high stylistic qualities suggests that Barker recognized that the Italianate buildings, so popular in small towns at this time, were falling from popularity. The building thus represents a transition period between the Italianate and more modern styles that followed. Beyond its style, the building is without question the best preserved, or most originally intact, example of Gilliam County's early commercial architecture.