A low row of shops with offices above, built in the 1920s and recently restored, with exuberant classical details.
From the expression on their faces, old Pa Pitt strongly suspects that these lions are up to something.
CommentsCategory: Commercial Buildings
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Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank
At some point this building lost something at the top, and indeed the Sanborn map for 1920 shows a building with three floors here. Since the second-floor windows match, it is likely that the top floor matched the third floor of the building to the left. Since Railroad Street does not meet State Street at a right angle, the corner of this building is an obtuse angle.
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First Western Bank Building
This impressive Art Deco block, built in about 1930, is all the more impressive for its location, right on the Shenango River at the western end of the State Street bridge.
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Protected Home Circle Building
Walker & Weeks, the Cleveland architects responsible for the Federal Reserve Bank in Pittsburgh, designed this Art Deco palace, built in 1936 for a fraternal insurance company based in Sharon. It is very unfortunate that the cap of the tower had to be rebuilt recently; the decorative chevrons in the brickwork apparently could not be duplicated, so the cap was rebuilt with plain flat surfaces. But downtown Sharon’s signature building is still an imposing and attractive sight as we cross the Shenango from the west.
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42 East State Street
The simple but striking and colorful Art Deco terra-cotta front attracted old Pa Pitt’s attention.
