Quick Facts

NPS Description

108 Court Street, ca. 1920s. 

Non-contributing (built within the period of significance but subsequent alterations have sufficiently impacted integrity to render it non-contributing) 

Description

Commercial one-story brick building with a frontage of 42 feet on Court Street. The storefront is of brick faced in square metal panels. The roofline has raised, flat-top sections at either end and a recessed gable faced in glass composite material is centered between them. Swinging aluminum and glass double doors are to the north and south side of the façade. A covered projecting entry with poured concrete support columns and glass composite material roof covers the north entry. Centered between the two entry doors is a square 7x7 glass block window. 

The south (side) elevation is of painted brick covered in painted tiles. The east (rear) elevation is of painted brick with decorative Commercial Brick paneled brick work in the frieze. To the north is a rear entry with square metal panel surround. No other elevation is visible due to adjoining buildings. 

History 

This site was the location of a livery business for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The livery was replaced in the 1920s with an automotive repair business. Nu-Way Cleaners occupied the building in the 1930s, and the Landon Beauty and Barber Shop in 1939-49. This address disappears from the city directories until 1978; it may have been part of the automotive dealership to the north. In the 1980s it housed the Little Red Shoe House, and then Glory Christian Fellowship. It is currently the Sha-Boom Pub Club.  *as of 2014

Integrity Analysis 

Little is known of the building’s appearance historically. The current façade was installed in the 1990s. 

Sources 

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Mt. Pleasant: 1884, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1910, 1924, 1931, 1950); Mt. Pleasant City Directories, 1925-1998; Past and Present of Isabella County, 1911; City of Mt. Pleasant Building Permits; historic photographs.