601 Delaware - Leavenworth Downtown Historic District - Leavenworth, Kansas - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Building Date: 1904
Style: LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS: Colonial Revival
Functional Use/Type COMMERCE: Two-Part Commercial Block

This symmetrical, two-story, tan brick building has three bays exhibits classic motifs. The corner pilasters, which have stone capitals and bases, visually support an oversized entablature, cornice, and a stone-edged parapet. The front elevation faces north. Brick Pilasters flank the two-story, central entrance bay. The entrance has flat fluted pilasters supporting a classical entablature. Above this, a modern sign is centered in the bay. Although the first story windows are the same dimensions, one has three divisions that incorporate a divided transom with fixed panes below, and the other window has four divisions following this mode. Centered above these windows are paired, double-hung sash windows with one-over-one lights. The windows on the first story create a horizontal emphasis, as does the stringcourse that wraps the building at the base of the second-story windows. (The two story pilasters at the corner of the building and those that flank the entrance break the stringcourse.) Flanking each of the paired, second-story windows are rectangular, brickwork panels with contrasting colored brick at the corners. A wide entablature and a projecting cornice wraps around the building. Above this, a brick parapet with projecting, square, brick piers is directly above the pilasters.

The building has a high degree of integrity. It retains its original materials, and with the exception of a few minor details, the original stylistic ornamental and design elements. Its setting has been impacted by demolition.