Foster-Renfrew Building - Courthouse Square Historic District - West Plains, Mo.
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N 36° 43.715 W 091° 51.164
15S E 602442 N 4065377
This brown brick two-story building is located at 23 Court Square in West Plains, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMKN0D
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2014
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From the National Register application:
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"ca. 1919.
This two-story, two-part commercial building is located on the northwest corner of Court Square at the intersection of Washington Avenue. It has brick walls and a parapet style roof. The single storefront was rehabilitated several years ago to more closely resemble its original design. It has large storefront windows above paneled wooden bulkheads. Glass block has been installed in the transom space above the storefront windows. A domed cloth awning hangs above the storefront and extends across the east storefront of the adjacent building to the west. The awning also wraps around one bay's width on the side (east) elevation. A stone belt course runs across the front elevation above the storefront and down the side elevation above the first floor windows. The first floor windows on the side elevation have single-light, fixed sash. The second floor windows on both the facade and the side elevation have flat stone lintels, stone lugsills and modern two-light casement windows. A simple stone cornice and stone coping at the roofline extend across the main elevation and down the side elevation. Due to the sloping grade of Washington Avenue, the rear of the building is three stories tall. As a result, the basement level is mostly above grade. There are two entrances to basement commercial spaces on the side elevation. On the rear elevation, the two doors on the basement level and the windows on the first floor are boarded up. The windows on the second floor are a grouping of five single light windows."