Patagonia

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2-story Flemish-revival/Elizabethan Renaissance-revival mercantile building completed in 1893. Designed by Clarence True, it is clad in ironspot orange brick, brownstone, and terra-cotta. The ground floor has a metal-and-glass door to the upper floor on the left, painted grey. To the right is a grey metal-and-glass storefront, with a recessed central entrance flanked by slightly-angled show-windows, with additional show-windows at the front, each framed by a very slender colonnette. Above is a wide segmental-arch spanning the entire storefront, with grey metal-and-glass infill, divided into four sections. Splayed terra-cotta blocks span across the arch, with a molding along the top edge that terminates in carved spirals at the ends.

The 2nd floor has two double-windows; the stone surrounds have quoins at the outer edges, and there are more quoins at the edges of the facade. The facade is crowned by a tall Flemish stepped-gable with terra-cotta coping at each step, an engaged colonnette rising up the center, and four small rosettes at the base of the gable.

The building was originally occupied by Joseph R. Hennessy’s oyster market and restaurant. Hennessy lived on the ground floor, behind the commercial space. Two bedrooms, a parlor, kitchen and bathroom served the family and the upstairs meeting hall was rented out for additional income. One of the early organizations to use the hall was the newly-formed Lutheran Church of the Advent which held its first services here on December 19, 1896.

The building is now occupied by Patagonia sportswear.

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