205 Fifth Street

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Evaluation:

This is a contributing Fifth Street building within the historic district. It is so evaluated because its more modern façade, of permastone (in 1940) with reduced fenestration and storefront scale represents the modernization of the building within the district period of significance.

District Characteristic	Yes	No	Findings/Recommendations
Two-story brick with narrow mass	X
Larger, broader massing		X
Other key façade features		X
Architectural style		X
Prominent location		X
Original façade materials	X		New permastone cladding
Upper fenestration pattern	X
Sympathetic Storefront Infill	X
Brick corbelled parapet		X
Cornice/coping (not metal)		X

Physical Description:

This two-story brick building is old but its permastone covering redefines it as a 1940 store building (Express, April 25, 1940). The core measures 25 feet by 60 feet with a narrower single-story rear addition that adds 39 feet to the plan. The facade retains three 1/1 windows and these have gained faux arches and key stones while stone sills have been buried flush. The storefront transom area remains intact but covered with a shingled canopy. The aluminum/glass storefront was present as of 1968 but was later extended north to eliminate a left- hand upstairs entry. A facade ghost are twin angled parapet level pilasters that remain visible.

Documented Alterations:

A rear addition (24 feet by 60 feet) dates to 1900 (Express, February 9, 1900). Facade largely replaced 1940 (Express, April 25, 1940). Permits note window replacement upstairs (1961), the permastone might date to 1961 when the marquee and storefront were remodeled by B. Crow, contractor. Later permits note a carport (non-extant, 1967), the mansard canopy (extant, 1979), all systems updated (1983), an attached garage (14 feet by 22 feet, 1983) and three awnings and a vertical marquee (1984), The Tavern was extended into 207 in 1992 at a cost of $110,000, Fox Construction the contractor, and finally in 2007 the same contractor did a $25,000 phase one remodel.

Commercial History:

Business	Owner	Start	Stop	Notes of Interest
Lamb’s Tavern/The Tavern (by 1940)/The Tavern Pizza & Pasta	David M. Lamb	1937	current	Testing first pinball since allowed in 1938 is a flop due to $200 annual license fee. Expanded north into 207 in 1992
		1940		New facade
Circle Cafe	A.A. Wilkinson, F. J. McCord (1929)	1928	1932
John’s Place	John Holsman	1937	1938	Lives there, built the Holsman Auto in Chicago in the late 1890’s, auction sale of ten booths, café and beer equipment, apartment furnishings November 1938
Falk/Snapshot Photo Studio		1925	1937	At 324 Fifth Dec. 1929
			1928 1930	Café for sale, doing good business
Piggly Wiggly Grocery		1927		Combined meat and grocery store, an innovation
Barnes' second hand goods		1920
John W. Woods Dry Goods		1898		Sold to Hartley & Bricker 1906
	M. O'Carroll	1897		M. O'Carroll was the owner when this building, certainly raised up simultaneously with 207 to the north, was being rushed to completion in late 1897 to house John W. Woods who had just sold his dry goods company and had started anew (Express, November 10, 20, December 17, 1897).