HomeMy WebLinkAboutCrenellated BuildingCRENELLATED RETAIL BUILDINGS
1904 Parker-Hildebrand Co., Boscobel, WI
1907 GAR Building, Detroit, MI; NRHP 1986
CRENELLATED ONE-STORY BUILDINGS
1927 White Castle No. 3, Indianapolis, IN;
NRHP 2011
1907 Pythian Castle, OR; primary property,
NRHP Baker Historic District, 1978
1902 Oddfellows Lodge, Arroyo Grande, CA;
NRHP 1991
1914 shop; 1965 church, Buffalo, NY
1929 Samson Tire and Rubber Co., City of Commerce, Los Angeles
1906 Pignataro Castle, Galveston, TX
SLO CRENELLATED BUILDINGS
1928 Stebbins House, Anholm, Contributing
Channel Commercial Co., 1912; Master List
First Presbyterian Church, Thornton Fitzhugh, 1905 (H. S. Laird’s First Presbyterian Church
behind). Fitzhugh based his design, including crenellation, on St. Giles, Stoke Poges
Presbyterian Church Annex, 1928, with First Presbyterian Church; both Master List
CRENELLATED NEOCLASSIC BUILDINGS
Castleward, County Down, Ireland, ca 1760:
Viscount Bangor’s Neoclassic side
Castleward, Viscountess Bangor’s Gothic
Revival side. Owned by the National Trust.
Mellerstain House, William and Robert Adam, 1725–1778
Hawthorne Woolen Mill, Greenwich, CT, 1881; NRHP 1990.
The Johnson Block, H. S. Laird, 1900; photos 1904 (above) and 2020 (below). The NRHP
Hawthorne Mill and the Johnson Block are the only two buildings I have been able to find
combining crenellation and classical pilasters in their facades. The exterior walls of the
Hawthorne Mill, however, are load-bearing, while the Johnson Block’s pilasters are termini
in exterior curtain walls of its interior bearing walls.
James Papp, PhD
Historian and Architectural Historian
SOI Professional Qualification Standards
1 June 2020