Designed by architect William H. Weeks, a prolific early architect of the central coast, this building is a "temple front classical" commercial structure. Note large glazed arched entry flanked by imposing columns in the Ionic order and elaborate detailing.

This property originally housed the Hub and Thurlby's, two of Salinas' most popular business houses. In 1926, the Bank of Italy purchased the property and became a major financial institution in Salinas further solidifying its position as the business center of Monterey County. It is classified as a two-part commercial building in the Mediterranean Revival Style

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Anchor building to town's original commercial core. Constructed by Architect William H. Weeks, it's owner, James H. McDougall was a leading Salinas merchant, former County Tax Collector and City Postmaster, and President of the oldest bank in town.

Because private enterprise was the key to America's development in the 19th century, one of its products, commercial architecture played a seminal role in defining the character of its communities. The quantity and quality of a town's business buildings served both as an indicator of its sucess and of its future potential. These structures generally clustered along the community's main transportation artery and became the town core. The McDougal and Glickbarg buildings form an elegant architectural "gateway/entrance" to the 100 block of Main Street.

First used as the Salinas City bank. Glikbarg, who owned and operated the Hub was a well-known businessman and served on the Salinas City Council in the 1930's. This building, also designed by architect William H. Weeks, is a reinforced concrete commercial structure with a reinforced stone sheathing. The second story contains rows of double-hung windows, each encased in decorative stonework. Rusticated sandstone blocks surround most of the first floor window areas.

This composite structure was constructed between 1903 and 1909 and remodeled after 1915. Sometime after 1915, the two building designs were merged with a remodel of 165 Main, unifying a rather mixed composition by carrying the Chicago style window of 161 Main and its ornate entablature and balustrade to the new facade of 165 Main. This new classical composition tied both structures together as well as balancing them neatly against the adjacent McDougal Building.

This building's two-part facade consists of two slanted bay windows at the second level topped by a projecting cornice with a row of dentils sitting under it. The first floor space has been altered (probably 1920's-30's) with the addition of a large plate glass window.

This building was originally designed for George White as one of Salinas' earliest moving picture houses. The building had a recessed entry with a flattened arch above which was covered sometime in the 1920's with the current Luxifor glass paneling and the store front windows added. The building's configuration is deceiving for behind the first commercial floor space one sees upon entering is a large room with a stage.

Originally constructed in 1915 as New Opera House, this building underwent a radical stylistic change in the 1920's when remodeled in the Art Deco style as the Crystal movie theater. Its principal decorative features, typical of the architectural style, are its vertical pilasters capped with floral decorative panels in the cast concrete or terra cotta, and the extended fin that acts as the building's principal signage above the glazed marquee.

Remodeled and retrofitted after the 1989 earthquake, this two part commercial building features paired bowed bays enlivened with decorative floral patterns and elaborate cornice detailing. The building housed the Rodeo Cigar Store in the late 1920's.

On the evening of April 30, 1894, an arson fire burned many of the then existing redwood frame business houses along the east side of the 100 block of Main Street. One result of this calamity was the requirement that all new construction be of brick. Almost immediately after the destruction, on May 3rd, 1894, William Powe purchased the brickyard and plant of S.C. Pierce and commenced producing one million bricks in anticipation of reconstruction. On July 26, bricklaying commenced on Mayers new butcher shop at 129 Main. The Pia and Mayers building is significant as one of the few remaining brick commercial houses constructed subsequent to the 1894 fire.

A two story unreinforced masonry building, rectangular in plan and sharing a common wall with the Mayers building at 129 Main. The second story, above a ten light transom window and beltcourse is a classical in derivation with projecting brickwork forming four bracketed pillasters enframing three sets of windows.