Property Record
319 COMMERCE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Five Points |
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| Other Name: | 5 POINT CHEESE HOUSE |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 56172 |
| Location (Address): | 319 COMMERCE ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1949 |
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| Additions: | 1949 |
| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Twentieth Century Commercial |
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| Wall Material: | Metal |
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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, OTHER VERNACULAR BUILDING FEATURES AN IRREGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURAITON, AN ALUMINUM/VINYL SIDED EXTERIOR, A METAL TRIM AND AN ASPHALT SHINGLED, HIP ROOF. IT HAS BEEN REMODELED SINCE 1982. CONSTRUCTED FROM 1948 TO 1949 (SEE BIB. REF. A), THIS STRUCTURE IS IN GOOD CONDITION. IT WAS FORMERLY A FILLING STATION WHICH WAS IN BUSINESS FROM 1948 TO 1949. (SEE BIB. REF. A, B). 2012- "Before Highway 23 was extended, two buildings occupied this corner, a carpenter shop, which was built before 1872 and is noted on the 1872 birds-eye map of Mineral Point as well as the Sanborn maps from 1884 through 1929, and a warehouse, which appears on the Sanborn maps from 1889 through 1908, when it is listed as "vacant." In the early 1950s State Highway 23 was routed through this corner, demolishing many original stone bulidings on Commerce and Shake Rag streets. In 1949 a gas station was located here, to service the anticipated increased automobile traffic. That original building has been altered but has retained its function as a filling station. It is also a cheese and liquor store. Businesses here were W. E. Peters Oil Company; Fenley's Oil Company; and the Five Point Cheese Shop." -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. MR. GEORGE BRAGEN, INTERVIEW WITH JOAN RAUSCH, MINERAL POINT, WI, 11 APRIL 1992. B. FIELD OBSERVATION. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |