| Additional Information: | Surveyed 2020: Situated on the east side of N. Pearl Street and facing west is the three-building, Freiburger collection. Its setback from the street is simply the width of the sidewalk. All components are cited under a single address as the two northern additions to the original, two-story building (1884) were added as the business expanded. The first was constructed in 1917 with the final, northernmost element added in 1962. None of the buildings had a life apart from the Freiburger family, automobile-related operation. And today their interiors collectively create one large, unobstructed room. Thus are they addressed as a single entity. The most dominant feature of the 1884 and 1917 components is the rock-faced, concrete block construction.
The initial element is that to the south. Its first floor is modern and consists of a centered and recessed doorway with an awning flanked by two large modern windows. Beneath the windows, the bulkhead is sheathed with shake shingles with scalloped shingles covering the wall above. The second floor is largely original and consists of five, symmetrically placed, three-light-over-one-light windows with concrete sills and lintels above, the undersides of which are shaped to accommodate the segmentally arched window heads. The datestone is set immediately above the middle window, above which is the cornice defined by a decorative concrete lower course, two courses of more refined concrete blocks, a course with forty-one regularly placed blocks, each with a carved flower, all then topped with crown molding.
The storefront of the 1917 building has three intermediate columns of rock-faced, concrete blocks to either side of which are the north and south endwalls. Between those, and below a concrete band that historically defined the top of what were likely display windows, today’s windows and sheathing are the same as the structural component to the right (south) – which is to say shake-sheathed bulkheads below and scalloped shingles above. Above the concrete band are seven courses of the rock-faced block, above which the cornice is defined by a band of decorative concrete, three courses of plain concrete block and another concrete band, all crowned by coping. The 1961 component at the north end of the collection is a short (compared to the one-story, 1917 building immediately to the right), one-story building with a vertically centered modern window, a shake-sheathed bulkhead below and scalloped shingle sheathing above. |
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