105 S. Fifth - Leavenworth Downtown Historic District - Leavenworth, Kansas - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Building Date: c.1880
Style: LATE VICTORIAN: Italianate
Functional Use/Type COMMERCE: Two-Part Commercial Block

This two-story building has a flat roof. Vinyl panels cover the first-story storefront. The second story remains quite intact. On the second story, rectangular windows with high profile, pedimented window hoods and limestone sills define the building's six bays. On the first story are a series of entrances with pedimented hoods. The wide cornice is elaborately bracketed. This building shares a party wall with 111 South Fifth Street.

Despite the alterations to the first-story storefront, much of which is reversible, the elaborate Italianate decorative elements retained on the second story give this building a sufficient degree of integrity to contribute to the District. The building retains its original materials, setting, location and can convey associations with commerce in Leavenworth as well as feelings about the period of its construction.