Photograph
Rennebohm Store on Capitol Square
| West Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square showing, from left to right, Gerald's, a women's clothing store (in the Wisconsin Life Building); a Rennebohm Drug Store; the Hub, a men's clothing store; the Heidelberg-Hofbrau; and Baron's department store. |
| Image ID: | 34107 |
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| Creation Date: | 1938 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Stanley C. Hanks Madison, Wisconsin, history photograph collection, circa 1850s-1985 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6095 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4.5 x 3.5 inches |
| The sandstone building in which Rennebohm's and the Hub were located was originally constructed by the Democrat Co. in 1871. Sometime before this picture was taken, the facade above the German-themed restaurant, which had previously matched that over the Rennebohm store, was radically altered. In 1946, one of the worst fires in Madison history destroyed most of the stores in this picture. Baron's escaped damage because of a three-foot fire wall. Newspaper accounts record that the Rennebohm's manager saved all of the prescription records. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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