105 South Washington Street in
Huntsville, Alabama, is a historic commercial building. It was built in 1931, after the previous building on the site had burned in 1925. The street level of the two-story brick building has three single-pane windows on either side of a recessed entry. A row of similar windows runs above the street level, separated by a row of rectangular panels. Above the storefront level sits a panel of
soldier course
A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. It can also be defined as a continuous row of any masonry unit such as bricks, concrete masonry units (CMU), stone, shingles, tiles, etc.
Coursed masonry construction arranges u ...
bricks, with decorative
terra cotta floral blocks on the corners. The same blocks are used on the top corners of the surrounds for five windows above. The
frieze is terra cotta, with a series of narrow
flutes above a decorative
bed-mould
Moulding (spelled molding in the United States), or coving (in United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. It is traditionally made from solid milled woo ...
chain. The
cornice
In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...
features a geometric X-pattern with small
dentils on each block. The terra cotta detailing exhibits
Art Deco influence, popular at the time the building was constructed.
[ ''See also:'' ] The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Huntsville, Alabama
Art Deco architecture in Alabama
Commercial buildings completed in 1931
1931 establishments in Alabama
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