West Des Moines, IA
Home Menu227 (built as 225 Fifth) Fifth Street
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