This two-story brick house has a red-tiled hipped roof. An end bay projects forward very slightly, containing an entry with cast stone surround, balanced visually by a one-story conservatory at the other end of the front terrace. The house was built in 1919 for Earle M. North, president of the Webb-North Buick Co. and vice … Read more
The Smith House is two stories and is constructed of hollow tile with white-painted stucco walls. It is rectangular in plan, with glazed green-tiled roof. The long front façade is elegantly composed of balanced elements: projecting end bays and a central pedimented portico surmounted by gabled wall dormer and flanked by Palladian windows. A full … Read more
The Jackson House is a large wood-framed residential structure, rectangular in plan, with a flaring hipped roof and full hipped porch. Brick piers framing the central entry support a second-story gabled balcony. The abstract of title for the property indicates that Andrew L. Jackson, an attorney, had a cottage erected on this lot in 1895. … Read more
A 1931 building permit indicated that property owner L. Woodhouse commissioned architect L.B. Weinmann and contractors Quisle and Andrews to erect this two-story commercial structure. Of buff brick with yellow brick corbelling, the Art Deco façade is further embellished with cast-stone trim and black structural glass. Rustic wooden shutters and a “Western” storefront, added in … Read more
This three-story, ochre-orange brick structure features a pressed metal cornice topped by a cast-stone cartouche; below, elaborate brick corbelling embellishes the piers and frieze level. A suspended canopy has been removed, and the transom and shop windows have been altered. F. Edelbrock is the first known owner of the building. Early tenants included Magnolia Furniture … Read more
Constructed on the site of earlier retail businesses, this building had Piggly-Wiggly Store No. 821 as its principal tenant in 1927. The buff brick, one- story structure contains several wood-framed storefronts. A shed-roofed eave with modillions is interrupted by a high, shaped parapet topped with cast-stone urns and coping. The corner building exhibits original transom … Read more
C. A. O’Keefe and A. J. Long erected this commercial structure in 1910 on the northwest corner of N. Main Street and W. Exchange Avenue. It is almost identical to their earlier two-story brick building directly across W. Exchange Avenue (see NN-9 1). It remained in the O’Keefe estate until 1943. Early occupants included the … Read more
C. J. and Edythe Davidson purchased this large River Crest property on the bluffs overlooking the West Fork of the Trinity River in 1935. “Red” Davidson was president of Davidson Drilling Co. and Cascade Petroleum Co.. Plans dated September 8, 1936 were drawn by Joseph R. Pelich; the residence was constructed by contractor Herschel D. … Read more
This brick structure served as an ice factory for commercial and local domestic use in the days before refrigerators. Leased by the Arlington Heights Ice Co., the Crystal Ice Co. was operated for over fifty years by the Maddox family. During the 1940s the building also was the first of the Iceteria Food Store chain. … Read more
This five-unit one-story apartment building was planned as a U around a court. The front units are designed as cross-gabled cottages. Abstract half-timbering in each gable end is in the form of an X, with a porthole vent at the intersection of the members. The buildings are of wood-framed construction with brick veneer on the … Read more
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