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Show 156 I Street-1917 /C.C. Severs Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Building Materials: brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: Stylo. (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a three-story apartment block with Prairie Style decoration. It has a parapet roof with a wide plain wooden cornice. Walls are of earth-tone dark reddishbrown brick. Two enclosed three story front porches dominate the front of the building, They have brick corner pillars with paired wooden columns at the top, and wooden walls and casement windows. The rest of the windows are double-hung with wide stone or concrete lintels. The center front entry has an arched pediment above. This is one of a group of three similar apartment blocks constructed in 1917 for the State Loan and Trust Company, by the same builder. -rThomas W. Hanchett Statement of Historical Significance: D D D D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D n D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D a D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation a Religion a Science D Socio-Humanitarian D Transportation This three-story brick apartment block helps document the trend toward multifamily residences of the century. It was built in 1917 at a cost of $12,000 by the State Loan andTrtist Company, E.T. Tisley, general manager. |
