Eight thousand six hundred souls. Named after Richmond Day,  a surveyor - but soon after they discovered there was already a Richmond, Wisconsin. Hence the "new." Take that, Previous Richmond!

Okay, let's stroll.

I love it. And it’s wrong.

First of all, yes, the building is Vintage now. But the sign’s typeface is wrong for the style. In fact it suggests that the people behind the Vintage branding don’t understand the very thing they’re touting.

Yeeee hah

The Full Buckaroo here - while the shingles don’t cover the facade, the wood-mask and the brown brick just scream the spirit of the Buckaroo Revival aesthetic.

What makes this hideosity even better is the outline of the vanished sign, with its early American shape.

Utter incoherence.

"Okay, we had bad hail once, and it dented some hats, but really, I think you’re going a bit too far."

BEEBE

1912. The city's website says it's slated for redevelopment, but doesn't tell you who Mr. Beebe was.

It’s like the building on the left is trying to feel up the one on the right, which is staring straight ahead and pretending this isn’t happening.

“I’d like it completely restored to its original spirit, but also completely modern.”

“Can do!”

Sweet Smoking Judas, did someone just get a good deal on discount lumber?

Context: the building next door was smothered with another style. The late 70s - early 80s metal look. Modern for a while, but then its depressing qualities took over and the thing looks morose and sullen.

Better, but indistinct.

The original buildings probably had little going for them.

There. See? It’s not so hard to be interesting.

Eh, maybe it is.

The dimensional-folding-Buckaroo-Revival style is a new twist in this old town.

The building on the right may not have had its third floor removed, but they did everything to make it seem like it was.

Handsome old store - you might think “50s” . . . . . . but the stone around the door suggests 20 years before.

Mostly intact . . .

. . . except from the result of a visit from Amontillado Brickworks Inc.

If I had to guess, I’d say it was totally resheathed around 1984.

Ah, the famous Lokai Block.

OUMB with the same strange resheathing. Or is it something new made to look old?

“Well, we had a marquee, but after the hailstorm, a guy made me an offer I couldn’t turn down."

Interior here.

It’s the nicest thing we’ve seen in town today.