Ryan Block (St. Joseph, Missouri)

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Ryan Block
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Location 1137-1141 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph, Missouri
Coordinates 39°46′12″N94°50′43″W / 39.77000°N 94.84528°W / 39.77000; -94.84528 Coordinates: 39°46′12″N94°50′43″W / 39.77000°N 94.84528°W / 39.77000; -94.84528
Area 1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built 1889 (1889)
Architectural style Italianate
MPS St. Joseph MPS
NRHP reference # 12001242 [1]
Added to NRHP January 29, 2013

Ryan Block is a historic commercial building located at St. Joseph, Missouri. It was built in 1889, and is a three-story, trapezoidal shaped, Italianate style brick building. It consists of three units in a row with common walls and cast iron storefronts. It features a dentillated metal cornice and a two-story oriel window sheathed in decorative metal. [2]

St. Joseph, Missouri Place in Missouri, United States

St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. Small parts of St. Joseph extend into Andrew County, Missouri, United States. It is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas. As of the 2010 census, St. Joseph had a total population of 76,780, making it the eighth largest city in the state, and the third largest in Northwest Missouri.

Italianate architecture 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

Cast iron iron or a ferrous alloy which has been liquefied then poured into a mould to solidify

Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloy constituents affect its colour when fractured: white cast iron has carbide impurities which allow cracks to pass straight through, grey cast iron has graphite flakes which deflect a passing crack and initiate countless new cracks as the material breaks, and ductile cast iron has spherical graphite "nodules" which stop the crack from further progressing.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/28/13 through 2/01/13. National Park Service. 2013-02-08.
  2. Penelope Kress (September 2012). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Ryan Block" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.