124 Fifth Street

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Evaluation:

This is a contributing Fifth Street building within the historic district and an example of a late Queen Anne commercial design.

District Characteristic	Yes	No	Findings/Recommendations
Two-story brick with narrow mass	X
Larger, broader massing
Other key façade features	X		Bay Window (unusual two-sided profile)
Architectural style	X
Prominent location	X		Non-historic placement due to opening of pedestrian alley
Original façade materials	X
Upper fenestration pattern	X
Sympathetic Storefront Infill	X
Brick corbelled parapet	X
Cornice/coping (not metal)	X

Physical Description:

This is a two-story marginally late Queen Anne style design, executed with a purple-brown brick. A single storefront plan (25 feet by 52 feet), it is unusual for its single shallowly angled offset upper bay window. Also unusual to the district is the use of wrap-around raised brick to flank the sides and cap of the bay and to extend the semi-circular arch on the left-hand upper window. The parapet treatment is also noteworthy, being shallow in height and having a pointed bracket base, with a band of single brick recessions across its front. This pattern is found on other brick buildings to the south. The north wall is fenestrated on the upper level and the district's sole cast iron fire escape remains on that frontage. The building has no rear extensions. The storefront has a centered angled recessed entry. The windows (1/1) are likely replacements in kind.

Documented Alterations:

An aluminum storefront is now faced with wood and a stucco covered transom area has been reopened. Permits note alterations (1963, 1965), an exterior remodel (1980) and an electric marquee (1982, gone).

Commercial History:

Business	Owner	Start	Stop	Notes of Interest
AOkay Antiques	Steve Mumma	1987	current
Atomic Blond	Steve Mumma	2006	2007	124 A-upstairs
AK O’Connor’s Restaurant		1983	2006
Time Passages		1982	1983	Antiques, opens June 1982
Valley Jct. Tap	Harold and D. Drake	1963	1980
Hugh’s Lounge		1965	1971	No license renewal 1971
Hughes' barbershop		1965	1968
Norma's Lounge		1960	1963
Harold's Place/ Tavern/Lounge/ Barrick’s Lounge	Harold Oliver Barrick	1954	1962
Cox’s Inn	Lewis Cox	1958
Dill's Tavern	Edith Dill	1943	1955
Rash's Tavern		1937
Lee's Tavern		1927	1932
Penrod Barbershop	Walter Penrod	1925
Townsend's Tavern		1917
				A 1907 account notes that the Ashworth's removed a frame that had long housed Townsend to 4th Street and that he would build a brick building (Express, September 26, 1907).
Construction		1907		The Ashworth brothers acquired the property in April 1906 and built this building a year later (Express, September 19, 1907).
				Mary E. Moore acquired this half lot in early 1893 and built a first building likely that year as the Moore-Farrington Block. The post office was here 1894-1897.