512-514 Delaware - Leavenworth Downtown Historic District - Leavenworth, Kansas - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Building Date: c. 1890
Style: LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS: Commercial Style
Functional Use/Type COMMERCE: Two-Part Commercial Block

This two-story brick building has three bays. The parapet wall slopes up toward the center from each end. A decorative course of projecting bricks laid in a soldier course caps the parapet. Small decorative terra-cotta elements are at each corner. A rectangle of projecting brick centered above the windows is the only other ornamentation on the building. A single course of projecting brick surrounds each window opening. The windows are not original and are not uniform in size or configuration. The storefront retains its original configuration, though the windows and doors constitute modern alterations. Wood panels cover the original transom area. A modern awning spans the eastern half of the building.

This building retains its original size, scale, massing, materials, setting and location. Despite replacement of many windows, the building maintains sufficient integrity to communicate its associations with the commercial district and provides feelings of the period of its construction.