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Alpha Reference: U <br />Historic Name: None <br />Address: 114 Stambaugh Street <br />Construction Date: Circa 1919 <br />Parcel #: 053-135-020 <br />114 Stambaugh is a one-story commercial structure, located just off the Main <br />Street business district. The building is flat-roofed and has a shaped parapet, <br />which rises gently in the center. It is constructed of brick, which on the <br />Stambaugh Street facade has been painted red. The builder arranged an <br />asymmetrical fenestration. A pair of garage doors each with six-light windows <br />occupies the center. To the left are two six-light windows with fixed sash. A door <br />stands to the left of this pair of windows. To the right of the central garage doors <br />is a large fixed sash window. Segmental brick arches top all of these doors and <br />windows; the windows also have brick sills. On the building's southeast facade a <br />door and six-light window with fixed-sash exist. Segmental arches cover both of <br />these openings. <br />114 Stambaugh Street has seen previous uses as both a grocery store and <br />pharmacy. The Holmquist Hardware Company occupied the structure from the <br />early '60s to 1976. Currently, the structure appears to be used as storage facility. <br />It is an unpretentious example of what the architectural historian Richard <br />Longstreth has termed a "One-Park Commercial Block" in his book, The <br />Buildings of Main Street, (Washington, D.C.: 1987). (See pages 54-67.) The <br />One-Part Commercial Block is an inexpensive one-story high building often with <br />a flat roof and a facade of large plate glass windows. This one-story commercial <br />type lined the bustling main streets of small towns and suburbs across the United <br />States from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. 114 Stambaugh <br />Street appears to be in its original condition and in a reasonably good state of <br />repair. William P. Jamieson, a plumber and sheet metal man, used this building <br />starting in 1919. Doxsee, the painter, then used it. The sign referring to 1895 is <br />misleading; Holmquist Hardware started in 1895, but it was across the street until <br />1963. <br />Sources: <br />•City Directories of Redwood City, 1907-1976 <br />•Sanborn Fire Insurance Map 1919 <br />•Richard Schellens Collection, Redwood City Library Local History Room <br />Page 56 <br />7.B. - Page 67