101 South Market Street - Oskaloosa City Square Commercial Historic District - Oskaloosa, Ia. - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Date of Construction: 1890, remodeled c. 1912.

Information taken from pages 18 & 19 of the pdf for Type V buildings and pages 183 & 184 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 - Architect unknown. Third story and new facade added in about 1912. Corner site - ornament continued around the corner (High Avenue treated same as town square).

Formerly a two-story Type III building; remodeled Type V characteristics. Light brown brick, horizontally proportioned windows (grouped in threes on South Market), flat facade. This building exhibits stylistic flourishes of earlier times, unusual for commercial brick style. Quoins (Georgian Revival) and diamond ornament within the cornice (French Chateau).

History of the building tenants:
1889 - Former buildings: 101 South Market - M. Wilson Dry Goods
1902 - S. Baldauf (dry goods)
1911 - Baldauf-Rosenblatt Co. (Dept. Store)
1925 - 101-111: Oppenheimer-Alsop; i.e., first floor Baldauf Building and upper and rear floors of next two buildings
1936 - Sears
1954 - Sears Roebuck and Co.