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Evaluation:
This is a contributing Fifth Street building within the historic district. Later in date (1942-49) it represents later commercial infill that replaced lost frame store buildings. It is of some special interest as it housed a state liquor store postwar. Its construction date and the date of its present storefront need to be reviewed.***
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Findings/Recommendations |
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Two-story brick with narrow mass |
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Larger, broader massing |
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Other key façade features |
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Architectural style |
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Prominent location |
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Original façade materials |
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Upper fenestration pattern |
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Sympathetic Storefront Infill |
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Brick corbelled parapet |
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Cornice/coping (not metal) |
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Physical Description:
This is a later single-story double storefront veneered in a blonde-gold colored brick. The core measures 50 feet by 109 feet. The storefronts are mirror imaged with book end entrances, intervening elevated rectangular windows and a substantial blank wall segment. Both storefronts now have fixed awnings.
Documented Alterations:
The existing storefront plan likely dates to October 1959 (permit). Permits note electrical work in 1966 and 1978. The double storefront appears to have been re-fronted.
Commercial History:
115 Fifth Street
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Business |
Owner |
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Notes of Interest |
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Rewind |
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2021 |
current |
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Ivy Lane |
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2014 |
2015 |
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Green Grounds Coffee |
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2011 |
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Mhuka Design |
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2011 |
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Fifth Street Antique Mall/Finds |
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1995 |
2000 |
For sale, 5,450 sq. feet with fountain (Register, January 31, 1999)-15 vendors |
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Laura Vintage Clothing & Accessories |
Laura and Pat Blunck |
1998 |
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Antique Alley/Alley Cat |
Mary Brannon |
1981 |
1985 |
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Collectibles Etc. |
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1988 |
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Advertising, baseball cards |
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Village Clockery |
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1998 |
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Antique Auction Service |
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1998 |
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Fifth Street Fountain and Finds |
David Meshek |
1990 |
2009 |
From Colfax, 1990 |
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The Potters |
Karen Schneider, Steve Steininger, Nancy Schaul |
1978 |
1980 |
People still come for liquor-do pottery inside front window |
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Renaissance Stained Glass |
Mark Veiock |
1977 |
1983 |
Hobby supplies |
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Need early photographs.*** |
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Iowa State Liquor Store #44 |
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1956 |
1978 |
Move from 211 Fifth November 1956, thieves go through roof to break safe (Tribune, January 21, 1957). |
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Clyde Tuttle, 111 5th gets $18,000 permit to house liquor store |
1956 |
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Register, August 6, 1956 |
117 Fifth Street
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Business |
Owner |
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Stop |
Notes of Interest |
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5th Street Mall |
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1995 |
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Sugar & Spice |
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1985 |
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From 117 Maple Street, used clothing |
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Renaissance Stained Glass |
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1980 |
1990 |
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Iowa State Liquor Store #44 |
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1956 |
1978 |
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Clyde Tuttle, 111 5th gets $18,000 permit to house liquor store |
1956 |
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Register, August 6, 1956 |
Assessor’s photo, March 28, 2022
Assessor’s photo
Assessor’s photo
Assessor’s photo
Vogel Survey, April 1998
Register, December 11, 1979; May 17, 1980
1975
1974