Nutz & Grosskopf Building (Indianapolis, Indiana)

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This building was erected by Nutz & Grosskopf, a wholesale leather firm, specializing in “leather and findings and shoe store supplies.” Nutz & Grosskopf was founded by two German immigrants from Baden. The business remained in the building until the early 1950s. The building was rehabilitated in 1984-85 to accommodate a restaurant and additional space for the Business Furniture Corporation.

This four-story commercial brick building features red-orange, iron-spot brick as the facade material. The main facade is divided into two bays. The storefront consists of two shop windows flanked by glazed doors with transoms framed by end brick piers and crowned with a limestone, corbeled cornice. This cornice also serves as the sill band for the second-story windows. At the second and third stories are two window units consisting of double, center pivot, casement sash with a single full width transom sash above on both the second and third floors. The third floor is part of the limestone decorated parapet with a blind arcade corbel table with limestone accents echoing some of the details of the neighboring building.