227 (built as 225 Fifth) Fifth Street

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Evaluation:

This is a non-contributing Fifth Street building within the historic district.  This 1947 building was “colonialized” with a new storefront.

 

District Characteristic

Yes

No

Findings/Recommendations

Two-story brick with narrow mass

 

X

 

Larger, broader massing

 

 

 

Other key façade features

 

X

 

Architectural style

 

X

 

Prominent location

 

X

It is proximate to a grouping of monumental buildings to the south and adjoins a pedestrian alley to the north.

Original façade materials

 

X

 

Upper fenestration pattern

 

X

 

Sympathetic Storefront Infill

 

X

 

Brick corbelled parapet

 

X

 

Cornice/coping (not metal)

X

 

 

 

Physical Description:

This one-story building has been re-fronted. The original storefront had a left-hand entry, aluminum cornice, and structural glass bordering its doors and windows and forming a kick plate. The cornice was plain with a stone coping. The plan measures 25 feet by 60 feet.

 

Documented Alterations:

Permit for a $5,000 25 feet by 60 feet brick, steel and glass block building by Reed's Ice Cream Co. (Express, December 12, 1946; January 30, 1947).  Permits as 227 by West Des Moines Waterworks note a marquee (1962), remodeling into offices (1962, contractor Barney Crow), electrical and heating upgrades (1983) and the remodeling of 24 feet by 83 feet in 1985.

 

Commercial History:

 

Business

Owner

Start

Stop

Notes of Interest

Coopers On Fifth

Ryan, Kara Cooper and Randy Hagen

2011

current

 

European Restaurant Accordion

Sergey Lozovich

2010

2011

Music with the owner’s accordion accompaniment.

Simo’s Calisto

Randy Simonini

1995

2009

Cajun foot

Market 27 Café

Su and Saley Nong

1995

1995

Expanded retail, Asian food

 

 

1962

1994

City sells to Mark Veiock in August, abandoned since 1993 flood

West Des Moines Waterworks

 

1970

1993

 

WDM Y.M.C.A.

 

1952

 

 

Reed's Ice Cream

Reed's Realty

1947

1962

Reed's Ice Cream

 

Assessor’s photo, August 4, 2014

Register, November 21, 2010

Assessor’s photo, March 23, 2005

Des Moines Register, July 12, 2003

Assessor’s photo, February 28, 2000

Vogel Survey, April 1998

1968

1965

Reed’s Ice Cream, Tribune, July 9, 1947