147 N Belknap St 

Built between 1912 and 1921, this building features a painted brick and stucco façade with a cast-iron storefront.  Narrow openings filled with original Art Deco glass blocks flank both sides of the central entry, and the old cast-iron  pilasters bear the marks “Mosher Manufacturing Co., Dallas.” The rear wall is rough-quarried limestone and the  building has a flat roof that drains to the rear. This building is an example of the narrow buildings constructed in  Stephenville as the city sold its alleyways. Sometime after 1976, owners extended this building’s concave storefront toward the west so it is flush with the  sidewalk and replaced a metal awning with a metal-framed fabric awning. Fixed metal windows now frame both sides  of the center glass-and-metal door. Above the entry is a rectangular area filled with stucco, which gives the appearance  that the glass entry area of this building was once taller and perhaps had transom windows.  The 1921 Sanborn map identifies this building as an office just off the courthouse square, located along a row of  buildings lining the east side of North Belknap Ave., an entry to the courthouse square from the north. A retail store  occupied this building in 1930, located between the Western Union office to the south and a movie theater to the north.  In 1940, Hub Beauty shop operated in this building.