Tucker Building-Hotel Easterly - Anamosa, Iowa - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

Completed in 1871, this is a 2-story, brick building, now painted white. The building's storefront is now clad with cover-up materials. Perhaps original materials might remain behind them. The upper story features three bays, each filled with 1/1-double-hung windows. Segmental-arched stone hoodmolds surmount these windows. A pressed metal, paneled frieze and cornice with brackets and dentils caps the edifice. This frieze and cornice are virtually identical to those on buildings at 203 and 205 East Main Street. The building possesses another primary facade on its west elevation. This elevation is punctuated by 1/1 double-hung windows, as on the north elevation, but without hoodmolds. Rather early in its history, the Easterly Hotel expanded its operations into the Scott Building at 203 East Main Street. "The Easterly Hotel accessed into this building from the west corner. At one time the restaurant associated with the hotel occupied the street level room." Although this amalgamation occurred early in its history, the Tucker Building Easterly Hotel is counted as a distinct resource from the 203 property because of the architectural significance of its design. Although the name of this hotel—"Easterly"—refers to S. B. Easterly, the original proprietor of the business, the name nicely referenced the building's geographic location along East Main Street in Anamosa. It also distinguished this hotel from its rival on West Main Street—the Fisher House—at a time when East Main Street was emerging in commercial importance in the community. The styling of this property's name—"Hotel Easterly" and "Easterly Hotel"—both appear in the historical record.

ITALIANATE DESIGNS - EXTANT Tucker Building-Hotel Easterly
201 East Main Street
Built in 1871, stone hoodmolds, wood frieze w/panels & brackets, & denticulated cornice