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Meridian Downtown Historic District
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2120 Fourth Street
 
Built: 1905
 
Architect: Christopher Columbus Risher
 
Architectural Style: ______
 
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NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
 
58. C 2120 Fourth Street. Vise Clinic. Ca. 1905, remodeled ca. 1947 International Style Christopher Columbus Risher, Architect
 
Originally constructed as a three-story structure between 1902 and 1906, but prior to 1947 a fourth story was added and the building was extensively remodeled in the International Style. The building has a flat roof with plain parapet, and on the street elevations, the first floor walls are finished with marble and the upper floors are unornamented stucco. The upper three stories of the two street facades have long ribbons of louvered blinds that give the appearance of continuous bands of windows that wrap around the two facades. However, rather than ribbons of windows, wooden, five-light casements are arranged singly, with the 4th Street facade having fifteen bays and the 22nd Avenue facade having three. The stucco bands between each ribbon of blinds projects from the main body of the building, and on the 22nd Avenue facade, along the vertical band formed by the projecting stucco, is a neon sign with the words Vise Clinic. The first floor of the 4th Street elevation contains two small display windows at the south end, and at the north end is an angled recessed bay containing an aluminum storefront system with paired glazed doors topped by a transom, and to the left is a floor-length display window containing five horizontal lights. Within the recessed bay, the terrazzo floor has the inscription, Guy T. Vise, M.D., 1947, and a flat, curvilinear, concrete awning that protects this entrance bay has a circular opening at its north end. To the north of the recessed entrance bay is a pair of floor-length, aluminum-framed display windows. The storefront on the 22nd Avenue facade has an aluminum storefront system set within an angled recess.
 
Lauderdale County Real Property Appraisal