Now and Then: Royal Street

The closest architectural style that I can place this Royal Street building to is a Greek Revival American Row House.  (It’s not a textbook example, but I’d guess the first floor was designed with the specific intent of making it a store and attracting patrons).   Here it is in 2014 and in the early 20th century.  Royal Street is lined with shops for art, antiques, and jewelry.  As you can see, the first floor was, and still is, a place of business.  Some things never change, right?  I don’t have the exact year built, but to give a range estimate, my guess would be between the 1830s and 1850s.

Key Features: Original wrought-iron railed balcony; pilastered columns hugging first floor windows and entrance-ways.  They took the louvered shutters off of the 2nd floor (boo!).