Property Record
215 E MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | JAMES GESME FUNERAL PARLOR |
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| Other Name: | WILSON BUILDING |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 12686 |
| Location (Address): | 215 E MAIN ST |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Mount Horeb |
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| Year Built: | 1922 |
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| Survey Date: | 19962017 |
| Historic Use: | funeral parlor |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
| Structural System: | Masonry |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Main Street Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 3/5/2019 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 8/17/2018 |
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| Additional Information: | DECORATIVE STRING COURSES. ALTERED 1ST FLR. 1986- "This Modern Broadfront, with its decorative brick work and gesme date stone, was erected for James Gesme Funeral Parlor. Gesme had first established a furntiure store and undertaking business further west on Main Street in 1894. This building was used to display caskets and prepare for visitiations. Around 1945 the business was moved to Academy Street and the Gesme family remained in the undertaking business until about 1960." "Mount Horeb Wisconsin: Historic Downtown Self-Guided Walking Tour", pamphlet, Mount Horeb Landmarks Foundation, 1986. |
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| Bibliographic References: | INSCRIPTION. Miller, Elizabeth L. Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: An Intensive Survey of the Historic Resources of the Commercially-Zoned Downtown. Mount Horeb: Mount Horeb Chamber of Commerce, 1997. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |