205 South Ohio - Sedalia Commercial Historic District - Sedalia, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

205 South Ohio Avenue (vacant)
c. 1880
Romanesque Revival influence.

Rectangular plan, two stories, brick walls, shed roof with tile coping, stone trim. The storefront has been altered with a deeply recessed center entry with full-height 1-light sash. Flanking raised display sash overhang the permastone covered bulkhead. Maroon enamel panels sheath the end piers and the storefront transom area above a retracted canvas awning. The second story has a large center round arch three-part window flanked by lower 1/1 sash. A rock-faced stone round arch surmounts the center window group; stone imposts continue as stone lintels for the flanking sash. Continuous stone sill. Triple inset rounded brick clustered columns with egg-and-dart molded caps flank the 1/1 sash below the lintels. An elaborate crenelated parapet tops the building between corbelled projecting end piers with egg-and-dart molded bases and stone caps. A center reeded stringcourse is below a frieze with decorative brick patera panels set between brick drops. Shallow corbelled dentils are below the molded brick cornice. The crenelated parapet steps up in the center between taller piers; both the piers and crenels are stone capped. The north elevation has been parged. A parking lot is to the north and 207 S. Ohio is adjacent to this building.

On the north side of the building is a very large mural of Scott Joplin. The artist is Stanley James Herd and the mural was painted in 1994.