K of C Council 900 - Leavenworth, Kansas - Knights of Columbus Councils on Waymarking.com

Building Date: c. 1882; c. 1945
Style: MODERN MOVEMENT
Functional Use/Type COMMERCIAL/Specialty Shop/SOCIAL: Meeting Hall

Occupying a corner lot, this three-story building has a corner entrance that is canted at both stories. The facade of this late 19th century building was significantly altered in the twentieth century. The three story building appears to have two stories divided into four horizontal planes through the use of brick stringcourses and by alternating different colors of brick and large, cast stone tiles. The storefront facade has large, ochre-colored, cast stone tiles while the second-story facade is primarily buff-colored brick. Above the first-story windows, a stringcourse spans the facades on Fourth and Delaware streets. The stringcourse surrounds a band of ochre-colored cast stone that delineates the rectangular aluminum windows that are set into both facades. A stringcourse also forms the coping of the parapet. Midway in the Fourth Street facade, a vertical rectangular brick wall projects 1 1/2-stories above the roof. Commercial storefronts occupy the first story and are divided into three bays on the Delaware Street facade.

This building has retained its materials, size, scale and massing from the c.1945 alterations that have achieved significance as a historic alteration. This building has a high degree of integrity and contributes to the District.