Name/Title
-302 N 3rd - J. D. Richardson Dry Goods BuildingEntry/Object ID
2020.25.307Description
Building at 302 North 3rd Street.
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3rd StreetCity
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriContext
J. D. Richardson Dry Goods building at 302 N. Third Street was constructed in 1892 for the Richardson, Roberts, Byrne Dry Goods Co . for $60,000. By 1900 the firm had become known as John D. Richardson Dry Goods. In 1901 $20,000 was spent on remodeling and another $40,000 in 1917. By this time it was the largest wholesale dry goods plant in the city. The current tenant at 302 N. Third Street, American Electric Co., was founded in 1897 as a wholesale electric supply house; it has also served as the wholesale franchise for Edison Mazda lamps, Maytag washers, General Electric refrigerators, and Crosley radios. The company was originally housed in the Market Square area but was forced to relocate because of the projected central business district urban renewal project, which later resulted in the demolition of the Market Square area.
(1901-02; E.J. Eckel) Warehouse/Light Manufacturing Facility. Romanesque Revival. Seven-story brick and stone building. South and east facades punctuated with transomed 1/1 sash set deeply into the wall and arranged in groups (singly on the first story, in pairs on the second and third stories, singly on the fourth story, and in groups of three on the top three stories) in ribbon-like fashion. Windows at the first and fourth story levels are set in large arched openings without columns or piers. Terra cotta faced facades on Jules and Third streets detailed with Renaissance derived motifs: scroll shapes, wreaths, and garlands which decorate facades at fourth story area and on southeast and southwest corners of the building. Entry recessed into an open corner on the first story at the southeast corner supported by massive granite column with foliated forms on capital; entry stairway altered with new brick balustrade wall.
Circa 1892 302 North 3rd Street housed J. D. Richardson Dry Goods.
Circa 1897 302 North 3rd Street housed AMERICAN ELECTRIC.
Circa 1905 302 North 3rd Street housed the RICHARDSON-ROBERTS DRY GOODS COMPANY.
From 1912 - 1930 302 North 3rd Street housed the RICHARDSON DRY GOODS COMPANY.
From 1930 - 1940 302-310 North 3rd Street were vacant.
Circa 1946 302-310 North 3rd Street housed the KANSAS CITY QUARTERMASTER DEPOT BLDG No 2.Collection
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6 digital photographs.
