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Rhodes Realty Building

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c. 1925. 95–97 McDowell St.

This three-story, seven-bay commercial building has a beautifully restrained classical facade executed in terra-cotta. Delicate motifs, including paired garlands in the spandrels between second- and third-story windows, are sparingly spaced. The name of the building is carved into the entablature above the three central bays.

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Author: 
S. Allen Chambers Jr.
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S. Allen Chambers Jr., "Rhodes Realty Building", [Welch, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-MD14.

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