118 W. KING ST.
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"The Amusement Center" - 1983. Given that this was 1983, was this a video arcade? (NCSHPO via Tom Campanella)
(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.)
Constructed as early as 1911, this one-story, brick commercial building has been altered with the removal of a second floor and the installation of a replacement Colonial Revival-style storefront, brick façade, and pent roof. The building has a flat roof behind a brick parapet with metal coping. The storefront features one-light-over-two-panel doors on each end of the façade, each with a four-light transom. Centered on the façade are two twenty-five-light display windows. The doors and windows are encompassed within a wood storefront with pilasters between the bays, wood aprons beneath the windows, and a modillion cornice that extends the full width of the storefronts. An asphalt-shingled pent roof has been installed above the storefronts. The building appears on the 1911 Sanborn map as a post office with a barber on the second floor.
07.31.2016 (G. Kueber)
Regrettably, I must concur with the National Register folks that the fauxlonial facadectomy that occurred here probably justifies leaving this building in a non-contributing state. It's hard to tell whether the original brick storefront remains intact with only the millions of muntins and dentils filling what would have been a plain, mostly glass storefront.
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