Porters Building Centers

Specialties

An easy business to work with as there are four locations! Porters are affiliated with Ace Hardware but stock many fine products other than those that you would find in a typical Ace store. We also feature Valspar, Cabot and Clark & Kenziington paints and have a complete rental store including U-​Haul. We purchase our lumber direct from the mills with quality as our first consideration.

We carry:

–Rental Equipment

–U-​Haul Trucks and Trailers

–Largest Lumber Inventory and complete lumberyard

–YellaWood Pressure Treated Pine

–Stihl Products (tools, trimmers and more)

–Fiberon Composite Decking

–Valspar, Cabot, Clark+Kensington & Ace Paint

We are distributors for Stihl, Yellawood and Milgard windows. We also carry Big Green Egg and Holland Grills. Porters have the largest lumber inventory of anyone in the area. We are a railcar mill direct buyer. We stock those hard to find lengths the others guys have to special order.

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History

Established in 1952.

Porters Building Centers began as Kearney Lumber Company on June 7^th of 1952. The company started in what was an abandoned horse and buggy lumberyard which was housing mules, hogs and chickens in Kearney, Missouri by Mack and Mary Helen Porter. Mack cashed in the revenue generated from three years of teaching math, science, and coaching. Mary Helen sold her new car. The company has grown to six locations.

We have a contractor and distribution yard in:

–Mosby, Missouri with rail spurs and

–Five traditional lumberyard-​home centers in Kearney (headquarters),

–Cameron, Laurie, and Greenview in Missouri & Elwood, which also has a rail spur, in Kansas.

Meet the Business Owner

Mack P.

Business Owner

Mack cashed in the revenue generated from three years of teaching math, science, and coaching. Mary Helen sold her new car. The company has grown to six locations. We have a contractor and distribution yard in Mosby, Missouri with rail spurs and five traditional lumberyard-​home centers in Kearney (headquarters), Cameron, Laurie, and Greenview in Missouri & Elwood, which also has a rail spur, in Kansas.

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