Everett Building (Huntsville, Alabama)

Everett Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The building in July 2010
Location	115-123 N. Washington St., Huntsville, Alabama
Coordinates	34°43′56″N 86°35′10″W / 34.73222°N 86.58611°WCoordinates: 34°43′56″N 86°35′10″W / 34.73222°N 86.58611°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1899
Architectural style	Commercial Brick
MPS	Downtown Huntsville MRA
NRHP Reference #	80000709[1]
Added to NRHP	September 22, 1980

The Everett Building is a historic commercial building in Huntsville, Alabama. Built in 1899, it represents the Commercial Brick style of the late 1800s and early 1900s that eschewed the applied decoration of the Victorian style. The two-story building is divided into five storefronts, although only the southernmost two have entrances today. The upper floor is divided by pilasters between tightly spaced, one-over-one sash windows. Decorative patterned reliefs sit below each window. The building is topped with a parapet that has a course of dentils between courses of stepped brick. The center part of the parapet is raised, and flanked by a short, capped column pieces. The northern bay is visually separated from the others by a pilaster stretching the entire height of the building, and was formerly left unpainted, suggesting it may have been built at another time.^[2] A covered, tree-lined alley separates the building from the Yarbrough Hotel to the north. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

References

1. National Park Service (July 9, 2010). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
2. Bayer, Linda (May 31, 1979). "Everett Building" (PDF). Historic Resources of Downtown Huntsville. National Park Service. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2014. See also: "Accompanying photos" (PDF). Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2014.