Property Record
107 COMMERCE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | GRATZ AND PALZKILL IMPLEMENT STORE |
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| Other Name: | FEDERAL CABINET SHOP |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 56152 |
| Location (Address): | 107 COMMERCE ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1940 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Mineral Point Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/30/1971 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | THIS ONE STORY RETAIL BUILDING FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A CONCRETE FOUNDATION, A BRICK EXTERIOR, A WOOD TRIM AND A FLAT-SHAPED ROOF. THREE WOODEN SERVICE DOORS ARE PRESENT ON THE NORTH ELEVATION. THE STRUCTURE WAS BUILT IN THE 1940'S ON THE FORMER SITE OF THE HISTORIC WISCONSIN HOUSE HOTEL. (SEE BIB. REF. A). THE FEDERAL CABINET SHOP, AS THE BUILDING IS NOW KNOWN, IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THIS STRUCTURE, WHICH WAS HISTORICALLY CALLED THE GRATZ AND PALZKILL IMPLEMENT STORE, FUNCTIONED AS AN IMPLEMENT STORE IN C. 1945. (SEE BIB. REF. A). THE BUILDING WAS DESIGNATED LOCALLY, BECOMING PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT IN 1972. 2012- "In 1942, Clarence Gratz built this large brick building to house his farm implement store, demolishing the original building on the site, the Wisconsin House. Gratz awas born in Grant County, WI to parents of German heritage. The implement business was here until 1977 when it moved to larger quarters and this building became the home of the Federal Cabinet Shop. Renovation in 2008 restored the large pane glass windows which had been bricked shut. The original building on this site was the William Lanyon blacksmith shop which was later made into a hotel called the Wisconsin House and later the Keyes Hotel." -from "A Field Guide to Mineral Point" by Nancy Pfotenhauer of the Mineral Point Historical Society, 1st Edition, 2012, Little Creek Press. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 151: Dodgeville To Belmont.” WHS project number 92-0510IA/LT. October 1993. Prepared by Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center (GLARC). A. SANBORN INSURANCE MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI. (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1884-1929); GEORGE BRANGER, INTERVIEW WITH JOAN RAUSCH, MINERAL POINT, WI. APRIL 11, 1992. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |