221 High Street East - Oskaloosa City Square Commercial Historic District - Oskaloosa, Ia. - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Date of Construction: 1908

Information taken from pages 18 & 19 of the pdf for Type V buildings and pages 123 & 124 of the pdf on the specific building.

Type V Building - Type V buildings are, again, the standard rectangular commercial box with loadbearing masonry walls. Most of these buildings are two-stories in height, only four examples are three-story buildings. The only one-story building in the entire district is also of this type. The bricks of the Type V facade are slightly larger than those of the earlier building types and display a new range of color: from tan to dark brown, with a marked gradation within each color. Textures have changed, too. Several Type V building facades are constructed of the rough, striated bricks newly popular at this time.

At their second levels, Type V buildings have wide, double-hung windows with large single pane sashes. Windows are either paired or regular spaced. The approximate 2:1 proportions of the windows and the examples of paired windows reinforce the new horizontality of the facades. On many of these buildings, ornament is limited to horizontal bands of raised or recessed brick laid in repetitive rectilinear patterns. These decorative brick bands run the full width of the facade, usually just above the upper level windows, and are commonly of a contrasting color. Simple corbeled brick cornices are also common, as are name and date plaques. A stepped parapet appears on one building of this type.

As with other buildings of this district, the street level facade of Type V buildings have been repeatedly renovated so that original materials, in many cases, have been lost.

Specific to building - This is an original Victorian livery (pre-1885 Italianate) remodeled in 1908, previous building's window hoodmolds remain on east elevation. Some windows on front infilled with different color brick. (no longer the case - iconions).

History of the building tenants:
1902 - Oskaloosa Livery and Transfer Co.
1911 - Oskaloosa Livery
1925 - Lambertson Hunt Co. Autos
1936 - Vacant
1954 - Seeger Auto Supply Co.