Music Store (Historic) - Washington, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 33.568 W 091° 00.852
15S E 673022 N 4269761
This building is categorized as B-3 and Commercial.
Waymark Code: WM14NF0
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/01/2021
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County of building: Franklin County
Location of building: Elm St., 3rd bldg. S. of 3rd St., east side, Washington
Built: 1905
Architectural Style: Italianate
Classified: B-3 & Commercial
Current Occupant: 216: furniture store - 218: vacant
District Map
"Italianate/Second Empire, 1865-1900. Coded B
These closely related styles are represented by fourteen
buildings, ten of which are two or three story brick buildings with
storefronts and flats above. Most are concentrated along Main Street.
The salient stylistic features are bold, projecting cornices with wood
brackets (some with incised scrollwork panels), or corbelled brickwork
imitating brackets, and dormered mansard roofs. In other respects the
buildings differ little from the standard 19th and early 20th century
planar brick façade articulated with segmentally arched windows. ... also feature Italianate cornices as the primary stylistic element. ...
"Residential (c. 1849 - 1930) . Coded 3
This designation denotes fifteen buildings used only for residential
purposes (all are detached, single-family except for two detached,
multi-family), as well as numerous buildings which mix residential use
with commercial and a few which are institutional/residential or
industrial/residential and are doubled coded as such.
"Commercial. Coded With Black Bar
This designation indicates that historically the building (or part of
it) was used for commercial purposes. Since very few properties were
constructed exclusively for commerce, the black bar code at the of the property parcel generally refers to a first story storefront.
"Built: circa 1905
Storefront openings enlarged. Brick arches above window openings. Brick stringcourse. Brick corbelled and crenelated cornice.
"First appears on 1908 Sanborn map where a music instruments
business occupies north half of building and the south half is used as an office." ~ DNR Historic Survey, phase II & III PDF pages 392-393
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