R.L. McDonald and 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 building has four stories plus a basement on a stone foundation. The major (east) facade is divided by pilasters into five bays. Stringcourses divide the stories. The building is crowned with a broadly overhanging bracketed cornice. The street level story features cast iron supporting columns connected with arches to provide large window openings for display. The main entrance is inset into the southeast corner of the building behind a single, red granite column.

The secondary (south) facade has end bays set apart by pilasters and eight bays of intervening wall surface with moderate articulation -- consisting of continuous sills and continuous lintels on some stories in addition to the cornice.