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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: September 4, 2023
Caption: Powers Hotel (southeast elevation)
Additional Description: From the National Register Nomination:  Originally the building was three stories with a brick and stone parapet. This parapet was removed in the 1919 addition of two floors by Fargo architect William F. Kurke. The windows are symmetrically arranged and are composed as one-over-one panes. Windows on the edges of the facade are trimmed with terra cotta toothed into the brick on the top two floors, and stone toothed into the brick on the second and third floors. The south facade is much the same as the east. It is approximately one third longer than the east and is not divided into any vertical bays with the exception of the southeast corner which protrudes approximately 8 inches from the remainder of the wall to add some emphasis and verticality to the corner. Materials are the same as the east facade, as are the distinctive terra cotta ornamental "badges", along with an increase in parapet height. The ornamental pattern is distinctively a Sullivanesque, organic theme, although its shallow relief and occurrence on a few other structures around the midwest mark this ornament as a stock pattern, perhaps from the American Terra Cotta Company, and was probably not an original composition by Kurke. This ornament, nonetheless, may be the best example of Sullivanesque ornament surviving in Fargo.
Submitted: February 3, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p772390
File Size: 1.939 Megabytes

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