206 Fifth Street

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Evaluation:

This is a contributing Fifth Street building within the historic district. It is a late Queen Anne commercial design.

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		late Queen Anne
Prominent location		X
Original façade materials	X
Upper fenestration pattern	X		Cast lintels and unusual window arrangement.
Sympathetic Storefront Infill	X
Brick corbelled parapet		X
Cornice/coping (not metal)	X

Physical Description:

This two-story painted brick building is an excellent example of squeezing a design into a narrow plan. The odd central window set, variously three (now) or two windows (1968) begs a missing element and there was indeed originally a prominent bay window present that made the style late Queen Anne (see Figures 30, 100). This feature was lost early and is not drawn on the 1920 Sanborn Map. The sidewalls project in pilaster fashion. Successive belt courses cap the transom area and there are twin single 1/1 side windows and the central set. These have cast stone wrap-around lintels and the north window is the point of interest in that the window is set cheek and jowl against the side wall and the lintel is cut off to fit. The upper façade is plain with only a stone/concrete coping. The storefront has a centered angled entry and a left-hand upstairs entry, the aluminum/glass materials being present as of 1968. The side entry is rather deeply recessed. An iron-clad rear addition was present by 1920. An awning obscures the transom area.

Documented Alterations:

Sorensen received a $250 permit in 1954 for an addition (Express, August 26, 1954). Permits note a general remodel (1968) and the application of an awning and shutters (1977).

Commercial History:

Business	Owner	Start	Stop	Notes of Interest
Mitzi’s Sausage		2021	current	Sausage restaurant
The General Store & Eatery	Teresa Brittain	1996	2019
Valley Junction General Store	Mark and Betty Veioch	1970	1995	Restaurant-many awards
Central Iowa Antique Bottles & Glass Flea Market			1986
Mama Mia’s Pizzaria	Wally Billings	1971
				Complete restaurant, building for sale, September 1970
Crown Café		1970
Denny’s Cafe		1956	1968+
Holm Bake Shop		1943		From 313 Fifth
Jacobsen Clothing	Harry Jacobson	1936	1945	Relocated north from 122 Fifth Street, new fixtures, new storefront and new show windows (Tribune, April 29, 1936).
Garlick Jewelry	F. B. Garlick	1931	1935
Helen’s Flowers		1932
Carl Glas tobacco		1929
Morrison Chiropractic		1925	1937	Upstairs
Krull Bros. Clothing, Variety	Bernard Krull	1923	1935
Penrod’s barbershop		1917
Irwin-Askew Drug Store		1896	1906+
Construction	W. T. Irwin	1896		Druggist W. T. Irwin acquired the parcel in early 1896 and built the building that same year to house his drug store that contained the town’s first soda fountain (Express, April 21, May 8, June 10, 1896; May 24, 1897). The Register (March 27, 1896) noted “W. T. Irwin will erect a two-story brick building on Fifth Street between Shobert’s building and Seyfert’s hardware store.”