Property Record
320 COMMERCE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | JAMES ARYALL LIVERY STABLE |
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| Other Name: | KEN MEIXELSPUGER AND SONS CHEESE FACTORY |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 56174 |
| Location (Address): | 320 COMMERCE ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1875 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | livery |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Cut Stone |
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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 AND A HALF STORY, FRONT GABLED BUILDING FEATURES AN L-SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, A STONE AND CONCRETE BLOCK EXTERIOR, A WOOD TRIM AND A SHINGLED, COMBINATION GABLE AND FLAT ROOF. WINDOWS ON THE FIRST STORY ARE FILLED WITH GLASS BLOCKS. THE STREET FACING GABLE END WAS ALTERED BY THE ADDITION OF SIDING AND THREE METAL WINDOWS. THIS STRUCTURE, BUILT BETWEEN 1875 AND 1880 (SEE BIB. REF. A), IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THIS BUILDING WAS HISTORICALLY KNOWN FIRST AS THE JAMES ARYALL LIVERY STABLE (SEE BIB. REF. A), NEXT AS THE DR. PHILLIPS VETERINARY HOSPITAL (SEE BIB. REF. B), AND LATER AS THE MINERAL POINT CHEESE COMPANY. THE LIVERY STABLE WAS IN BUSINESS FROM C. 1880 TO 1894. (SEE BIB. REF. A). A WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED THIS BUILDING FROM 1900 TO 1929. (SEE BIB. REF. A). IN 1924, STEPHENS BROS. SHOP WAS SHOWN TO EXIST THERE. 2012- "Built about 1875 as the stable for the Washington House, the three story stone hotel built in the 1850s which stood on the northwest corner of Shake Rag and Commerce until Highway 23 was re-routed through this area in the early 1950s. This building was used as a stable until 1891 when Dr. Philps, a veterinarian, moved to Mineral point from Canada and opened a practice here. In a photograph of the building from the mid-1910s, the sign over the door reads "Veterinary Hospital F. W. Philps J.O. Schimming DVM." Schimming presumably started out with Philps shortly after he graduated from the Chicago College of Veterinary Medicine in 1913; by 1929 Schimming's veterinary practice was in the Brewery Creek building at 23 Commerce. Businesses here were the Washington House stable; Dr. F.W. Philps, Veterinarian; Philps/Schimming Veterinary Hospital; James Argall Livery; Mineral Point Cheese Company; and Hook's Cheese." -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. MINERAL POINT TAX RECORDS, 1840-1900; SANBORN MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI. (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1884-1929). B. SANBORN MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI. (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1884-1929). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |