Property Record
110 S 3RD ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | S. Gantert Furniture |
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| Other Name: | Gantert's Furniture |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 32115 |
| Location (Address): | 110 S 3RD ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1874 |
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| Additions: | 1885 |
| Survey Date: | 1996 |
| Historic Use: | large retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | William Nichols |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | La Crosse Commercial Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/2/1994 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 10/8/1993 |
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| Additional Information: | Corbeled brick cornice common to all ten bays including the three south bays constructed earlier; capped brick pers visually support the cornice inscribed with 1874 and 1885; center projecting center bay, articulated round arched window with corbeled ends over ong two over two windows in upper story and segmental arched window heads with corbeled ends on 2nd story; slender cornitium iron columns frame the store front entrsance with small corbeled brick cornice above the store front. Constructed in several parts, the Gantert Building has reained sufficient architectural character to be an important although not significant representative of commercial architecture in downtown LaCrosse. The site of Stephen Gantert Furniture Factory in the 19th century. Stephen Gantert came to La Crosse from Germany at age 17 in 1861 and made furniture. By the mid-1870s, he was selling factory-produced furniture in a new store, the southern four bays of the present building. In 1885, he added two units of three bays each to the north of the original building and changed the ground floor. A black walnut staircase, supposedly crafted by the German furniture makers Gantert employed, shows the exceptional materials and forms that he used. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Building Inscription. B. Dr. L. Crocker, "Gantert Building, 1874-75, 1885," unpublished paper, A.R.C. Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. C. Crocker, Leslie. Buildings of La Crosse through Time. La Crosse Public Library Archives Department: La Crosse, 2015. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |