Stamps Store - Osage, Arkansas - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

The Stamps Store is a two-and-one-half story, stone masonry commercial building designed in a vernacular interpretation of the Romanesque Revival style. It features a rectangular plan with a large, open retail/bank/post office space occupying the entire first floor, apartments occupying the second floor and a meeting hall in the upper half-story. A single brick chimney rises through the gable peak near the center of the building. The stone foundation and walls are covered by a corrugated metal gable roof.

The southern or front elevation features a two-story, shed roof wood porch and balcony attached to the stone facade of the structure itself. Both the first and second story are symmetrically arranged. The first floor is divided into three evenly-spaced arched openings and entered via the central opening with a double-leaf entry set beneath a fixed glass transom. The flanking arched windows are filled with large, fixed glass panes and simply panelled wood bulkheads below. A raised stone landing supports the wood porch. The second story is fenestrated by two rectangular, four-over-four wood sash windows flanking a central doorway which accesses the balcony. The balcony itself consists of six simple wood posts supporting the shed roof with a connecting balustrade composed of square wood posts. It is supported by four larger wood posts that rest upon the stone landing below. The upper half-story is lighted by a central one-over-one wood sash window set into a weatherboarded pediment.