The two-story brick building for grocer R. C. Scripture, painted since 1946, combines the then slightly old-fashioned Italianate features of narrow windows capped with brick segmental-arched hood molds. The cast iron for the columns supporting the first-floor storefront and the pressed metal for the cornice bearing the owner’s name were materials made available by the newly arrived railroads.
At the other end of the block, the Sherman Building (1996, Kirkpatrick Architecture Studio; 101 N. Elm) a two-story Postmodern building replaced earlier buildings that burned. Faced with brick selected to match neighboring buildings, the structure has a thick cast-stone entablature and cornice and an embedded tower that rises to a polygonal dome, in a manner typical of many early-twentieth-century corner banks. The long one-story canopy that wraps the corner adds a confusing modernist touch to the otherwise classical references.
At 221 N. Elm Street, a block from the square, is the former Denton City Hall and Auditorium (1927, E. W. Van Slyke and Co.), a symmetrical, two-story, towered building faced with buff brick walls, a red tile roof, and cast-stone Spanish detail.