It was just over 50 years ago that Beaverton’s Pierce Hotel – later called the Muscle Shoals Hotel – was introduced to a wrecking ball. The hotel had been built, along with many of the brick buildings on Brown Street, in the 1912-1914 time period. That devastating fire came 60 years after it opened as one of the most impressive buildings in the county. It was one of the points of pride for Beavert…