Brittian-Richardson & Company Building - Wholesale Row - St. Joseph, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

The district includes five (now four) High Victorian Italianate warehouse buildings:

1. (no longer standing) Noyes-Norman Building 209-211 N. 3rd St., constructed 1872. It is the earliest of the extant buildings in this wholesale district.
2. R.L. McDonald and Co. Building, also known as the Big Smith Building, 202 N. 4th St., constructed 1880. This building is now unoccupied but is undergoing appropriate renovation by an investment company which owns it.
3. Englehart-Winning & Co. [south] Building, 212 N. 4th St., constructed 1880 and now unoccupied.
4. Englehart-Winning & Co. [north] Building, now the Boston House and Window Cleaning Co., 216-218 N. 4th St., constructed 1884. 5. Brittian-Richardson & Co. Building, now unoccupied, 224 N. 4th., constructed 1882.

This four-story, three-bay building has cast iron mullions in its street level show windows on an otherwise masonry (stone and brick) facade. Bracketed entablatures separate the first and second, and the third and fourth stories.

A paneled stone band divides the second and third stories. Openings on the east facade and most of the north facade openings have keystone lintels. The central, front bay is emphasized with richer ornamentation than the flanking bays. The north facade has engaged stone pilasters and stringcourses dividing and ornamenting it.