Dick Building

The story

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The Dick Building is a commercial building at 201-203 E. Main St. in West Newton, Westmoreland County, built in 1890 in a Late Victorian, Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2007 under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1890 to 1925, reflecting the 1890 construction and the 1910-1925 addition.

Physical character

The stone foundation carries walls of rusticated sandstone ashlar and stucco trim, under an asphalt roof. The three-story, L-shaped building has a flat roofline broken by a semicircular corner turret with a conical roof and a metal wind vane finial. Round-arched and segmentally-arched openings appear across the front, along with an ornamental cast iron balcony, a triangular stone gable, and a stained-glass transom bearing the initials MMD.

Historical context

When built in 1890, it held basement stores, a first-floor bank, and upper-floor apartments; the First National Bank of West Newton used the banking rooms from 1899 to 1901. Farmers and Merchants Bank closed in 1931, and the building was used for doctors' offices in the 1970s. Downtown West Newton, Inc. saved the building from deterioration and disinvestment in the 1990s, and its apartments were renovated between 2000 and 2002.