KNOB, ARKANSAS
A fine example of early 20th
century commercial architecture in a tiny northeast Arkansas town, this
two-story storefront is just about all that's left of the older buildings in Knob,
which is actually located in a the flats. I particularly like the corbelling
(korbelling?) of the brick courses under the front parapet; the brick above is
a harder, redder variety that is meant to take weather from two sides. Note the
cast iron columns between the windows on the first floor.
Other than the brick and steel,
nothing of the original fabric remains. The upper windows, probably wood
one-over-ones, have been replaced with plate glass (where they haven't been
bricked in), and the storefronts have been modernized. The store on the left
has been particularly badly treated, what with the brick filler and the
ultimate insult to this fine structure, a standard steel door unit in a wall of
oriented-strand-board (OSB). Unpainted OSB, at that.
At least the building still exists.
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