This building was owned by and probably built by E. E. Soxman, a contractor who lived nearby. That is as much as old Pa Pitt has been able to discover about it, except for what we can tell by looking at it.
One thing we can tell is that it was built with storefronts, which were later bricked in for more apartments. The bricking-in was done fairly early, though, because the three-over-one windows are typical of the 1920s.
The rest of the building has preserved most of its details—“preserved” in the sense that they are still visible, although they have decayed enough that, in the unlikely event that someone decided to refurbish this building, many of those original details would probably have to be replaced.
Old Pa Pitt’s best guess is that the filled-in arch was originally art glass.
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