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555 Washington Avenue

Originally: Bradford-Martin Building
Later:

  • D. Crawford & Company dry goods (1898-1904)
  • May Department Store (1904-1913)
  • The Dollar Store
    Architect: Francis D. Lee with Thomas B. Annan, 1875

    511 Washington Avenue

    Originally: Finney Building, aka the Finney Building
    Architect: unknown, 1876

    These two facades cover one building behind; the two structures were elaborately joined together in 1898, at which time 555 gained its magnificent recessed entryway. The facade at 511 is one of only two curtain-wall cast iron facades left in the city.

    After a period of decline lasting into the 1970s, the building was renovated in 1987 as office space and remains in use today. As with the previous block, this one is isolated from the string of older buildings found to the west -- but the profile view of their heavily articulated street elevations, with the old Stix building rising beyond, is quite impressive.

    Links:
    National Register of Historidc Places nomination form


    • March 2001


    November 2008