Merchant Building

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129-foot, 9-story office building completed in 1896. Designed by Townsend, Steinle & Haskell, and originally called the Merchant Building, then Merchants National Bank Building, it is clad in stone, buff-colored brick and terra-cotta. The first two floors are topped by a dentiled cornice, and have cast-iron window mullions. On the 3rd & 4th floors the piers are banded, ending in Corinthian capitals below a dentiled cornice at the 6th floor. The windows of this mid-section are grouped into threes, separated by Corinthian columns, and capped by round-arched at the 6th floor. The top floor has individual round-arched windows, set below a prominent copper roof cornice with modillions and dentils. A grey iron fire escape runs down the south facade. The exposed northern wall is clad in red brick, and the east wall in brown brick.