1925 - Hail Building - Batesville, Ar. - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

Date of Construction: 1925

A three-story, brick masonry commercial building with Batesville marble trim. Its brick walls and façade are supported by a brick foundation and covered with a flat, built-up gravel and tar roof set behind a raised parapet coped with cast concrete.

This building was originally constructed c. 1908 by S. A. Hail, a prominent local merchant, as a single story commercial building to house his dry goods business. It was enlarged with a second story warehouse in 1914, and in 1925 a third story was added for more warehouse space along with the brick front. The square-headed windows with their decorative lintel “squares” and sills of Batesville marble (actually a type of limestone but called marble because of the visual similarities) and their nine-over-one double-hung sash windows reveal a subtle Craftsman influence in the design.

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