| This two-and-one-half story building at 201-213 SE 12th facing east on the northwest corner of SE 12th and SE Ash is a Streetcar Era Commercial building constructed in 1909 in the Craftsman style. The second and attic floors contain residential apartments. The three commercial bays on the east facade are primarily glass storefronts with angled recessed entries and a band of square transom windows above in line with the building façade. From south to north, the ground floor consists of:
(213) a commercial bay with deeply recessed paneled entry door with transom above, and solid pane angled windows and single mullioned windows along the building façade on either side of the door;
(211) a modern paneled entry door with fanlight and transom above leading to apartments upstairs; (207) a shallower recessed pair of glazed doors with bottom panels and with transom above and angled mullioned windows and two mullioned windows along the storefront on either side, and
(201) a deeply recessed pair of glazed entry doors with bottom panels and transom above with solid windows along the angles and the wide solid glazed windows along the façade. The glazing for 201 wraps around the north corner of the building on the SE Ash Street frontage, including one large pane of glass with three transoms above. Two additional clerestory windows and an entry door to the rear of 201 are on the north façade. A second rear access door was boarded up on this side. Beneath the storefront glazing are paneled kickplates. The sidewalk gently slopes up going north, requiring two steps at the entry to 213 and 211, one step at 207 and a gentle ramp at 201.
The 2nd floor streetside façades are nearly symmetrical with projecting polygonal slanted bay windows near the corners, two each on SE 12th and two on SE Ash Street. Second floor windows are vinyl sash, sometimes grouped in pairs. The roof is asphalt shingle, hipped with a north-south ridge and includes large hipped dormers at the center of each slope. The primary roof and dormers have deep eaves with brackets. The building is clad with round-edge drop siding with fluted pilaster corner boards and is painted in a multi-color scheme. At the south end of the building, a concrete outdoor patio with simple shed roof supported by posts and access ramp was constructed in 2007. This building was listed on the National Register in 1989, historically known as the Gottsacker Brothers Grocery Store. |
