Property Record
315 MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | NEWCOMB AND WEDDINGTON STORE |
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| Other Name: | CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 30972 |
| Location (Address): | 315 MAIN ST |
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| County: | Lafayette |
| City: | Darlington |
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| Survey Date: | 1982 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Stucco |
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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: | 10/7/1994 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 7/15/1994 |
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| Additional Information: | A STONE TWO-STORY STRUCTURE WITH A FLAT SLOPING ROOF THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY STRIPPED OF ALL HISTORIC DETAIL. ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS THE NEWCOMB AND WADDINGTON STORE, THIS BUILDING WAS HISTORICALLY RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DARLINGTON'S COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. HISTORICALLY THIS BUILDING WAS CALLED THE NEWCOMB AND WADDINGTON STORE, AND WAS BUILT PRIOR TO 1884. IT WAS A GENERAL STORE.(C) IN 1880, JOHN H. HOCKING BROUGHT THIS STONE STRUCTURE AND MOVED HIS GENERAL MERCHANDISE BUSINESS INTO THE BUILDING.(C) HOCKING HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN THE MERCANTILE BUSINESS IN DARLINGTON SINCE 1862, LOCATED IN ANOTHER BUILDING.(F) HE CARRIED OUT HIS GENERAL MERCHANDISE BUSINESS IN THIS BUILDING FOR ANOTHER 25 TO 30 YEARS.(B,D) BY 1901, THE STORE HAD CHANGED HANDS AND WAS KNOWN AS THE JOHN MACKEN MEAT MARKET. MACKEN CONTINUED HIS MEAT BUSINESS UNTIL ABOUT 1920.(B,E) |
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| Bibliographic References: | "HOMETOWN SATURDAY NIGHT" 1994 CALENDAR. SANBORN-PERRIS MAP, DARLINGTON, 1884, 1889, 1900, 1924. KENNETH SCHREITER, INTERVIEW, 1-10-83. "DARLINGTON REPUBLICAN," JANUARY 7, 1881. "WISCONSIN STATE GAZETTEER," 1886, P. 213; 1895-96, P. 255. IBID., 1901-02, P. 279; 1919-20, P. 268. C. W. BUTTERFIELD, "HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY," 1881, P. 719. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |