The Arcade
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Commercial Building (The Arcade)
1890. 2553 Beech Ave.
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(Photograph by Mark Mones) -
(Photograph by Mark Mones) -
(Photograph by Mark Mones) -
(Photograph by Mark Mones)
Typical of the commercial buildings that lined the town's streets, The Arcade is a frame structure with a shed roof and an elaborately decorated pressed-metal cornice, window hoods, and bracketed stringcourse. The window treatments are noteworthy for their pattern of small square panes outlining the transoms. A one-story addition to the side bears a more elaborate pressed-metal frieze and sunburst arch over the cornice. Originally the building housed three separate businesses with rented rooms on the second floor.
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Location: Buena Vista, VirginiaRegional Overviews:Types:Styles:no metadata availableMaterials:
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Anne Carter Lee, "Commercial Building (The Arcade)", [Buena Vista, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-RB27.
Print Source
Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 132-132.
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