Metropolitan Lumber & Hardware

 hardware store, commercial building

2-story commercial building/warehouse completed in 1906 as a workshop and stables. Designed by Lafayette A. Goldstone, it is clad in brick, painted white except for near the base where it is blue. The south end of the main east facade has three bays with roll-down metal gates. The first two have windows, while the third is an entrance atop a set of short metal steps, with glass double-doors, a sidelight, and transom. Farther north is a loading dock, and the north end has a another loading dock between a pair of niches, the northern of which has a secondary door cut into it.

The 2nd floor has similar bays - five large openings with the north one flanked by narrower ones. The southern three are filled by glass blocks with double-window set into the field of glass blocks. The others are filled in with concrete scored into a grid pattern. At the middle bay, there is an additional opening on top, this one segmental-arched, indicating a small attic level, also filled in. A metal coping marks the roof line on either side, with the taller middle bay crowned by a brick parapet between a pair of stone copings.

A projecting, vertical sign is mounted at the middle of the facade, an there are two billboards on the roof. The building is now occupied by Metropolitan Lumber & Hardware.