126 North Poplar Street, 1927
Rent One
This two-story brick commercial structure presents three bays, each with contemporary plate glass and storefronts. The left bay provides access to the building through a single metal and glass door. Clerestory windows have been filled with an opaque material with a stucco-like finish, and are treated as signage. Penetrations for second floor windows have also been filled. Above these, a white terra cotta cornice stretches across the building. Four square medallions of terra cotta with foliate designs punctuate the parapet between each bay, and above the central bay, the parapet rises in the shape of a segmental arch. Terra cotta coping completes the parapet.
The building's second-floor north façade has been replaced with what appear to be masonry panels. These extend about two thirds down the length of this façade. On the first floor a dependency, largely of glass and wood roofed with asphalt shingles, just from the building into the adjacent parking lot the same distance down the building. The remainder of this façade presents the original brick and fenestration, multi-light metal-framed industrial windows.
120 South Poplar Street, 1950
Winning Edge
A plain one-story commercial structure of orange brick has a recessed entry at the right side of the main façade. The remainder of the storefront is divided in two parts, with a plate glass window centered in each section. A blue fabric awning stretches across the building above the windows, with "Winning Edge" centered in blue letters above the awning. The remainder of the façade is an expanse of plain brick, with metal flashing visible at the top of the parapet.
124-128 South Poplar Street, 1950
Misfit Vape Co.
This one-story commercial structure in white glazed brick encompasses three storefronts presented in four bays. The first bay from the left is slightly wider than the others, and presents a metal and glass entry on the right and a plate glass window on the left. A single clerestory window of glass block stretches across both features. The remaining three bays are all roughly the same width, each with a single glass block clerestory window above. The first of these presents two metal-framed plate glass windows, the second, recessed entries for two separate commercial spaces, and the final bay, two plate glass windows. Above the clerestory windows is a plain brick parapet marked in places by previously installed signage.
140 South Poplar Street, 1930
Sivia Law | Heartland Title Co.
The storefront of this two-story brown brick commercial structure has been filled with fieldstone veneer, leaving three penetrations for a glass and metal entry on the right and two plate glass windows. These three elements are unevenly spaced across the building's façade. The second floor presents two evenly-spaced penetrations, each with two double-hung windows. A simple parapet finished with stone coping, rises five courses higher above the windows.
107 South Poplar - 301 East Broadway, 1958
Green Grill
This two story building presents a contemporary storefront of wood and glass, featuring a number of six-over-six double-hung vinyl windows. A fixed awning of wood and wooden shingles separates the first and second stories, ending at a terra cotta cornice that has been painted green.Elements of the International Style inform this brick, wood and glass structure. Along Poplar Street simple brick piers define five wide bays, while at either end of this façade, recessed entries define a narrow bay. At the ground level, the central bay is brick, with the remaining bays on either side being glass. The two bays on the right are protected by a wide, flat metal awning. The materials above the other windows indicate that a similar awning once protected those windows as well. All five bays are treated identically on the second floor: a ribbon of short windows is positioned just beneath the flat roofs soffit, and the rest of each bay is sheathed in vertical wood siding. The Poplar Street entrance presents a light fixture consisting of a single large glass globe. The Broadway façade once presented a full wall of windows next to the recessed entry. The windows have been covered in wood, but a metal flagpole attached to the main façade and extending to a height of approximately 50 feet has been maintained.