Dermott Building - Downtown Webb City Historic District - Webb City, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

34 S. Main Street
Dermott Building
ca. 1900
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This is a two-story red brick commercial building with Romanesque characteristics, which is seen in the rusticated stonework trim and the arched openings. The building has a rectangular plan, with a flat roof and parapet roofline. The façade fronts S. Main Street to the east and has an altered storefront. The original storefront door has been replaced with a modern multi-light paneled door; the original rusticated stone entrance surround is intact with a smooth limestone arch opening flanked by rusticated limestone pilasters. Above the entrance a centered stone relief with the date “1900.” The arched entrance is flanked by altered storefronts that have been infilled with brick and now feature two small arch windows. The second level is highly intact with centered triple-paired arched one-over-one double-hung windows with rusticated arch hoods with keystones flanked by one-over-one double hung windows with a continuous rusticated limestone lintel. Brick pilasters separate the three sections of the second level with limestone caps and decorative brick corbelling offsetting it from the cornice line. The cornice line holds a limestone stringcourse brick detailing and centered is a limestone relief with a decorative “X” design framing the words “Dermott Building.” The south elevation has one-over-one double-hung windows on the second level. Although the storefront has been altered, the second level expresses its architectural period well and retains its architectural elements.