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Feature 171:  107 West Lexington Avenue (in 2011)

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Feature 171: 107 West Lexington Avenue (in 2011)

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Classification: Noncontributing.
Historic Name: Mode O Day.
Architectural Style: Modern.
Construction Date: ca. 1962/ca. 1974 (altered).
Period 6 of Harry S Truman's Life: The Period of Post-Significance, 1972-2011.
Tax Identification: 26-230-16-04.
Legal Description: Old Town, part of lot 65.
Description: Noncontributing one-story masonry commercial building constructed on the site of a one-story brick building occupied by a restaurant for years (Gibbons Cafe in the 1950s) with a decorative Spanish Revival style stepped rounded parapet and a very narrow building adjoining this on the west (a tobacco shop in the early 1900s); present building is rectangular in shape; flat roof sloping gently to the west side; large street-level display windows with solid panel above that forms parapet. The building is located in the middle of the block on the south side of West Lexington Avenue across from the Courthouse.
• Alterations: Building substantially altered ca. 1974, resulting in a loss of historic integrity.
History/Significance: In the early 1900s, a much smaller (narrower and shorter) building occupied the site of 107 West Lexington. By 1962, the building acquired roughly the same size as the present building. Gibbons Cafe occupied this building in the mid- and late-1960s. Around 1974, the building apparently was substantially remodeled after standing vacant for several months. Mode O Day women's clothing store moved back into the building (after occupying it in the early 1970s) and remained there for several years.

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