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Kiam Building
Located on the southwest corner of Main Street and Preston Avenue, the Kiam Building is one of many buildings erected in the 1880s and 1890s in the United States that were influenced by the Romanesque-inspired architecture of H. H. Richardson (1838-1886). These buildings were characterized by the use of Romanesque arches, heavy massing, ribbon bands of deep-set windows and use of rough faced stone or stone-trimmed red brick, as in the Kiam Building.