Waco Drug Company Building - Waco Downtown Historic District - Waco, TX
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N 31° 33.318 W 097° 07.816
14R E 677467 N 3492661
Designed by Waco architects Milton Scott & T. Brooks Pearson and completed in 1925, The Waco Drug Company Building served as the headquarters of a prominent wholesale drug company
Waymark Code: WMXQKY
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/14/2018
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Texas Historic Site Atlas
The building is characterized by is simple brick cladding, exposed concrete structural frame (on secondary elevations), and minimal ornament that draws from Classical detailing.
Believed to be an expansion of a 1911 building (no longer visible from the exterior), this concrete frame and brick warehouse was completed in 1925. The building is rectangular in plan, and regular in massing. It consists of four stories and a full basement, and rests on a concrete water table. The structure is poured-in place concrete construction, with brick and tile infill. All windows are made of industrial steel.
Waco Drug is located at the comer of Mary Avenue and Fifth Street, adjacent to the railroad tracks. The building faces east onto Fifth Street. This, the most public facade, is clad in red brick and trimmed in white cast stone. The facade is divided into three major bays (and seven minor bays), each delineated brick pilasters that run from the second-floor belt course to the pedimented parapet. Each pilaster terminates in white cast stone, and is surmounted by diamond-shape medallions imbedded into the parapet surface. The pedimented central bay of the parapet, like the pilaster tops, features a cast stone medallion. The white coloration of the stone detailing remains in sharp contrast to the dark red brick of the surrounding wall surfaces.