Salvation Army Thrift Store

 store / shop, The Salvation Army

5-story commercial building completed in 1910 as the Acker, Merrall & Condit Company Building. Designed by Buchman & Fox, it is clad in brown brick. The ground floor has a limestone base and band course with brick dentils along the top, above a band with a herringbone pattern in the brickwork. It is dominated by three round-arches with red metal roll-down garage doors. The east end has a shorter, squared garage door with an aluminum roll-down gate, and the west end has two single-windows (shortened from the originals that had splayed brick lintels). Both ends are very slightly set back from the middle section.

The upper floors are set far back at the east end, with no upper floors above the west end section. The middle has three triple-height round-arches with brick borders. Within each, the 2nd & 3rd floors have paired windows separated by a brick panel of dogstooth brickwork. Recessed outlined spandrel panels separate the windows in each arch between these three floors. At the 4th floor there are paired round-arch windows, with each bay also having a circular window above and between the other two, touching the top of the main arches and surrounded by dogstooth pattern brickwork. The 5th floor is set off by a stone string course and has paired, square-headed windows. There are outlined brick panels around each bay, and a dentil band across the top. The roof line has a brick parapet with projecting pavilions at both ends, also featuring outlined panels.

The recessed east bay has triple-windows at the 2nd & 3rd floors, with outlined panels between floors. The openings have been bricked-in at the 4th floor here. The upper floors of the east facade have pairs of smaller square windows at the front. Farther back there are pairs of single-windows with small square windows in between them at the 2nd & 3rd floors; these all have grey metal framing.

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