Property Record
9 FOUNTAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Peter's Ice Cream Company |
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| Other Name: | BADGER WELDING SUPPLIES |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 57171 |
| Location (Address): | 9 FOUNTAIN ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1950 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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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 CONTEMPORARY STYLED RETAIL BUILDING IS DESIGNED WITH A CLAPBOARD EXTERIOR. TWO GARAGE DOOR OPENINGS APPEAR ON THE MAIN FACADE. THE STRUCTURE IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE BUILDING WAS DESIGNATED LOCALLY, BECOMING PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT IN 1972. 2012- "Several buildings have occupied this site since it was homesteaded by John and Matilda Hood, Mineral Point's first settlers. The Hoods came to the Lead Region from Missouri in 1828. Fort Jackson was hastily put up here at the time of the Black Hawk War; one source says that Matilda Hood named the fort. The Hoods' first home was a shelter made of sticks and sod, a bit to the west of this site, near Jerusalew Spring. Later, they built a frame house on Fountain Street, just to the west of this building. Jacob Rassmussen, from Switzerland, built the Hotel Rassmussen on this site about 1900. The Peter's Ice Cream Company building replaced the hotel around 1920. Story Pottery and Leapin' Lizards Toy Store occupied one of the ice cream company buildings and the 2003 addition." -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). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |