The Ewart Building is a historic commercial skyscraper located at 921-925 Liberty Avenue in

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Description and history

The building was built in 1891 in the

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...

style for a wholesale grocer, Samuel Ewart. His family continued to run the business until 1925 and owned the building until 1969. It is built on part of the site of old Fort Fayette. It was listed on the

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on August 9, 1979.

References

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