I don't know what the building is being used for now. The siding came up to the rear of the building and the freight was loaded out the doors toward the street. The street has been widened and a side walk and curb put in. It is located on East 4th Street between Locust and Elm Streets. Edit 1/10/2024: Added photograph caption narratives. MKD North side wall with 5 truck loading doors. Red brick section is the freight warehouse, the white painted brick section is the business office. View across E 4th Street at northwest corner. Detail shot of north side truck loading/unloading doors along East 4th Street. There are steel lower wall side guards, bottom floor sills and cast truck bumpers. Note the hinges that permitted the doors to folded in half horizontally. The upper window section folded down, leaving the lower section closed as a safety and security barrier on this street side opening. In the sunlight on the south wall is the former track side of the building. This wall has 3 freight and one personnel doors. Two parallel tracks extended along this side. The tracks permitted drop deck plates to be placed between the building and freight car doors, effectively doubling car capacity over a given building or dock length. A wooden dock extended along the south side wall and the parallel tracks. The dock continued and wrapped around to the end east wall of the building. Note the metal overhanding roof supports on the southeast corner and the former roof support rafter slots below parapet on the east wall over the dock areas. Between the poured concrete foundation and the lower door sills are joist slots in the brick work. The joists extended out from the building to have their ends supported by piles extending into the ground. The joists helped support the horizontal floor boards of the dock, Visible an the far west end between the utility pole and unpainted brick freight house section is the white painted rear wall of the office section. View at the southeast corner.
Here is a closeup of the detail of the cast concrete sign on the office building. The walls of the freight house are topped with overhanging clay tiles designed to help shed water away from the brickwork and mortar. Above the new door the former transom window has been bricked in. Flanked by the utility electric meter and the door we can see 2 tall windows that have also been bricked in. To the left of the electric was a a small high placed window. The smaller window has a prominent protruding lower sill and was most likely in the restroom. Its position provided light, but a relative degree of privacy on the street side of the building. Unfortunately, it too has been bricked over.
This is location of the Freight Building - 1930 Sanborn map and some recent photos of the building in 2009.
