Neal Clothing

This two-story brick commercial building at 74 Public Square in Lima, Ohio, dates from the 1860s and is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. It has load-bearing brick walls, a flat roof, a rectangular plan and three bays across the front. Upper-story features include round-arched double sash windows with brick surrounds, pressed metal brackets, a projecting raking eave and two projecting finials. Old photographs show round-arched openings on the ground floor, which was later remodeled with black marble beneath plate glass and a central recessed door. Photographs of the square date the building to at least 1862. It served as a grocery in 1875, a dentist's office in 1884, then mercantile shops and a florist, and was later known as Neal Clothing and Turner's. It sits at the northeast corner of the square between the Mitchell Block and the Waldo Hotel. It is considered significant as the only remaining commercial building of its era on the square.