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Meridian Downtown Historic District
Marks, Rothenberg & Co.
2200 Fifth Street
 
Built: 1889
 
Architect: G. M. Torgenson
 
Architectural Style: Romanesque Revival
 
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NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
 
81. PL 2200 Fifth Street. Marks, Rothenberg & Co. 1889 Romanesque Revival G. M. Torgenson, Architect
 
(previously listed as element #85 - contributing - in the Meridian Urban Center Historic District) Five story, brick Romanesque Revival commercial building, five bays by thirteen bays. Monumental round-arch first-floor entrances. Second and third story bays, east facade, set in large round arches arcaded on pilasters. Segmental and round-arch fenestration highlighted by stone trim (labels, archivolts, sills, projecting courses). 2/2 double hung sash windows with stone lintels and sills, third story with arched 2/2 double hung sash windows with stone lintels and sills, wrought iron balcony, stone denticulated stringcourse, fourth floor with segmental arch windows with stone lintels, stone stringcourse divides fourth and fifth floors, fifth floor with band of closely spaced, arched ribbon windows with stone arches.
 
Lauderdale County Real Property Appraisal