1900; 2003 restoration. 201–203 W. Broughton St.
This compact commercial block, occupying a 60 × 90–foot building lot, flexes its architectural muscles with robust vertical piers defining the bays, white marble skewback blocks at the corners of the window arches that contrast with the red brick walls, and a playful cornice of segmental arches and stylized corbels that feels almost Postmodern in spirit. The central arch facing Broughton comprises individual white marble voussoirs, each block with a letter to spell out “Weed Building.” For most of the twentieth century, Silver’s, a five-and-dime subsidiary of McCrory Stores, occupied the building. The lane elevation retains most of its original iron shutters, and there is an old Savannah Grey brick tunnel/well in the basement.