[Alterations to an automobile dealership (business building") for Semmes Motor Co.

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This design records alterations to a building used as an automobile dealership for the Semmes Motor Company, which sets it apart from the many showroom projects of the early motor age. The record does not name the architect or fix a date, so the drawing is best read as evidence of a common change in the 1910s and 1920s, when cars became consumer goods and dealers reworked older commercial buildings with larger display windows, open floors for vehicles, and service space at the rear. Architectural drawings like this one show how owners hoped those changes would look to people passing on the street.

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