File:Kirwen’s Super Market, Main Street and Madison Street, Gibsonburg, OH - 52279990149.jpg

English: Built around the turn of the 20th Century, these two Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne-style commercial buildings house Kirwen’s Supermarket, which occupies the ground level retail space of the buildings, and features mid-20th Century facade treatments on the exterior, including stone piers, an aluminum low-profile awning, and aluminum panels with vertical ribs. The brick buildings feature intact second floors with rusticated stone lintels and trim, with the building at the corner featuring an ornate cornice made up of brick corbels and suspended piers, stone trim, and features a five-bay front facade with a large band of rusticated stone trim above the second-story window openings and two smaller bands below, and a decorative pilaster and arched window openings on the side of the building. The building further from the corner also featuring a five-bay front facade, with the four outer bays featuring blind arches with stone and brick masonry above a series of paired windows with rusticated stone lintels and sills, and the central bay featuring a smaller window, the same rusticated stone lintel and sill, and no arch, a cornice with rusticated stone trim bands and brick corbels, and a datestone above the central bay on the first floor bearing the date of 1896. Judging by the signage and facade treatment, Kirwen’s has been in operation since the mid-20th Century, and is a great surviving example of the small supermarkets of the 1950s and 1960s that once served small towns like Gibsonburg, as well as various urban and suburban communities.