513 Delaware - Leavenworth Downtown Historic District - Leavenworth, Kansas - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Building Date: 1899
Style: LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS: Classical Revival
Functional Use/Type COMMERCE: Two-Part Vertical Block

This three-story, classically designed, red brick building has two bays and is divided into three distinct horizontal zones. The first story has had extensive alterations. The second and third stories have inappropriate window replacements. A transom window atop the storefront is the only historic remnant on the first story. In the second-story bays, flanking the one-over-one light, double-hung sash windows are Ionic columns that support the entablature and cornice. The replacement sashes are significantly smaller than their openings, and the remaining space has wood panel infill. End pilasters and the wall surface have recessed bands of brick. A brick entablature and continuous stone sill visually separate the second and third stories. The third-story openings have paired, one-over-one lights, double-hung sash windows, separated by engaged columns. Again, the windows are significantly smaller than their openings and there is wood panel infill. The openings have molded brick surrounds. A stringcourse, paneled entablature, dentil course, and projecting cornice cap the building.

Despite storefront alterations, this building retains much of its original building materials, ornamentation and Classical Revival stylistic idioms it conveys clear associations with its period of construction and with its original commercial and organizational use. It retains all of the window openings, stringcourses, attached columns and cornice - all of which are dominant design features. The transom window appears to be intact under paneling. The inappropriate infill can be easily reversed without damaging the building's original materials. Loss is limited to the storefront windows and the window sashes and surrounds on the upper stories.