How about a music shop.
You could put guitars, drums and that sort of stuff in the windows.
Danielle
Since it's so close to the tracks....how about the 'Two Rails Hotel' or the 'Thunder Ridge Inn'
Nice work though...looks great!
A little late to the party -- my e-mail was down -- but at least I'm not drunk (yet).
Allow me to make a suggestion: For starters, I have difficulty envisioning any name for the building, but not because of bad workmanship. Rather, I think you have the building facing the wrong way. There has to be a reason why there are so few windows in the one wall, and one obvious reason would be noise from the tracks -- the brick wall would lower the decibel level.
That, however, requires you to turn the building 90 degrees. After all, why would the front door of such a building open right onto something as dangerous as a railroad track? Your building obviously is not a station; nor is it a lineside building. A commercial establishment could be near the tracks but would tend to face away from them.
Next, ask yourself what kind of commercial establishment would be near the tracks in the period you model. If you have a 1920s pike, some kind of railroad rooming house, speakeasy with a dummy front, or railroad eatery would be appropriate. This would be the time of the Volsted Act, and a placce which secretly served booze certainly would be the kind of place one would not want to have a lot of windows in. And locating it in a noisy location would tend to drown out some of the rowdiness within.
Now ask yourself what the upper rooms are for, and how would one get to them? Is it an office? A small brothel? Could it be anything in between? I might imagine some kind of dummy business on the ground floor, accessing the upper floor, with a secret passage into the rear where real business occurs. The area underneath could be for storage of the actual goods sold. So, if you have a speakeasy, you could disguise it with a cane shop in front and call that "The Big Stick" (from Roosevelt's famous line, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."). Anyone who "gets it" would realize that here was a place to find a pint and maybe something afterward to help you stagger home with. &c., &c.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by mandelswamp WickhamMan, how about Kustom Builders and Remodelers? Since you asked for feedback, it seems to me that the first floor windows seem to be a little too close to the ground although I have seen some modern homes with such a style.