Donlan-Redden Company

Donlan-Redden Company (vacant/Old Montgomery Ward), 503-511 South 2nd Street; 1914; John Morrell & Son, Architects, of Clinton; Daniel Haring, Builder.This building is a two-story commercial building with skeletal framing clad over with brick. The front façade is of face brick with decorative accents of terra cotta ornamentation. The brick piers between the windows on the upper story have been painted and the windows have been clad over. The ground-floor storefront has been altered. The building is a simple but handsome statement in the modern vein of the so-called Commercial Style (based on the innovative "Chicago School of Architecture" of the late nineteenth century.