Commercial Building - Ottawa, Kansas - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

Date of Construction: c. 1880
Style: Italianate

This is a two-story brick Italianate commercial block building. The first story contains two storefronts and a door providing access to the second story. Each storefront features plate glass display windows resting on wood bulkheads, a ceramic hexagonal tile floor, and a recessed wood entrance door. A sign panel covers the transom area above the first-story openings. The second story has three bays of single window openings. Each opening contains a double-hung wood sash with a one-over-one light configuration. A stone belt course forms a continuous sill below the windows, and above each opening is a rectangular stone lintel topped by bands of small brick dentils and brick corbels. The vertical spandrels between the windows are articulated and feature stone bands at the bottom, midpoint, and top. A pressed metal cornice with a peaked parapet and paired brackets crowns the building.

Although non-historic materials cover the transom area, this building retains sufficient architectural integrity to convey its historic associations. It contributes to the significance of the historic district.