201 Fourth Street

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Evaluation:

 

This is a contributing building within the historic district.  While later in date, off of Fifth Street and differing in its historical function (filling station), it represents how the downtown met a full range of commercial services.

 

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

 

 

Upper fenestration pattern

 

X

 

Sympathetic Storefront Infill

 

X

 

Brick corbelled parapet

 

X

 

Cornice/coping (not metal)

 

X

 

 

Physical Description:

This utilitarian filling station consists of a brick office/canopy with a hip roof (14 feet by 22 feet) that fronts west onto 4th Street, and tile grease house (15 feet by 25 feet) that has parapet walls on three sides, an overhead door on the south end and metal industrial windows on the east wall. A poor photo from 1954 shows  the brickwork painted white.

 

Documented Alterations:

The original building gained a 15 feet by 27 feet concrete block addition prior to 1937. The service area has been enclosed but not so as to obscure the original design.

 

Commercial History:

 

Business

Owner

Start

Stop

Notes of Interest

Valley Supply Company

Fred A. Hale

1970

1983

 

Traffic Controllers Inc.

Bonnie Jean Ruggles

 

 

 

Flasher Barricades

 

1970

1983

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vacant

 

1968

 

 

 

Bob's Standard Service

1960

1965

 

Standard Oil Company

J. Floyd Spear

1927

1954

Express, April 20, 1954, February 19, 1955

Construction:

E. L. Royer Construction Company

1925

 

matching a station on 5th Street.

 

Assessor’s photo, August 4, 2014

Assessor’s photo, August 4, 2014

Assessor’s photo, March 21, 2005

Assessor’s photo, March 21, 2005

Assessor’s photo, May 15, 1999

Vogel Survey, April 1998

Spearpoor, Express, April 20, 1954