This one is the Doubleday Building built in 1888. During my research for this building, I cannot see any direct relation between Doubleday and Disney. We can only speculate that this is the Doubleday of Doubleday & McClure Company, a publishing company that is now a division of Random House. Doubleday Australia actually has some Disney children's books in print.
Not leaving the building yet, we also have a great advertising poster for all passers-by to read:Another great advert keeping in time with the theming of Main Street U.S.A. and the surrounding buildings. But we shouldn't just look at the facades of the buildings - remember, we should always look up!
And if you do, you can see the top of the Doubleday Building has been adorned with a Trophy, keeping in theme with the Sporting Goods advertisement.Update: The fantastic George Taylor, from Imaginerding, contacted me to add to the "mystery" of the Doubleday building. In fact, it is a mystery no more! Due to the sports theming of the building, the 'Doubleday' is more likely to be a reference to Abner Doubleday, a US Army officer and who claimed to invent baseball, although there was much evidence against this. I think we can mark this as solved!

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Since the store seems to have a prominent element devoted to sports, my guess is that the Doubleday refers to Abner Doubleday, the inventor of the American sport baseball.
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