Property Record
210 HIGH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MOFFET BROTHERS DRUGS AND MEDICINE STORE |
|---|---|
| Other Name: | BEN FRANKLIN/MONTGOMERY WARDS |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 59698 |
| Location (Address): | 210 HIGH ST |
|---|---|
| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
| Township/Village: | |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | |
| Range: | |
| Direction: | |
| Section: | |
| Quarter Section: | |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: |
| Year Built: | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | artist studio |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
| Architect: | |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Mineral Point Historic District |
|---|---|
| National Register Listing Date: | 7/30/1971 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: |
| Additional Information: | DESIGNED IN THE COMMERCIAL VERNACULAR AND ITALIANATE STYLES, THIS TWO STORY RETAIL BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1860. (SEE BIB. REF. A). IT FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, STONE EXTERIOR WALLS, A STONE AND METAL TRIM, AND A FLAT ROOF. THE PRESSED METAL CORNCIE HAS INTRICATE DETAILING. FLAT STONE LINTELS AND PROJECTING SILLS DISTINGUISH THE ONE-OVER-ONE WINDOWS ON THE SECOND STORY. (QUOINS JUT OUTWARD ON THE NEIGHBORING STRUCTURE, LOCATED AT 214 HIGH STREET. ALSO FOUND ON THIS ADJACENT BUILDING ABOVE THE MONTGOMERY WARDS' STOREFRONT IS A BRACKETED AND ROUNDED, DENTIL-TRIMMED "CORNICE"). A SHARED STAIRWAY IS SITUATED BETWEEN 210 HIGH AND THE ADJACENT AND RELATED STRUCTURE, AT 214 HIGH STREET (MAP CODE 43/28A); THIS STRUCTURE WAS PROBABLY ASSEMBLED AT THE SAME TIME AS 210 HIGH. 210 HIGH STREET IS IN GOOD CONDITION. HISTORICALLY KNOWN AS THE MOFFET BROTHERS DRUGS AND MEDICINE STORE, THIS BUILDING HOUSED A DRUG STORE BUSINESS FROM 1860 TO 1929. (SEE BIB. REF. A). OTHER VENTURES WHICH OCCUPIED THIS BUILDING WERE AS FOLLOWS: MOFFETT BROS. (210 HIGH STREET) AND PHILLIP ALLEN AND CO. (214 HIGH STREET) IN 1871; A DRUG STORE (210 HIGH) AND BOOK STORE (214 HIGH) FROM 1884 THROUGH 1894; A DRUG STORE (210 HIGH) AND A MEAT SHOP (214 HIGH) IN 1900; A PHARMACY, PRIDEAUX AND BLISS TRIBUNE OFFICE (210 HIGH), AND A MILLINERY (214 HIGH) IN 1917. THE BUILDING WAS DESIGNATED LOCALLY, BECOMING PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT IN 1972. 2012- "Built by Dr. James B. Moffett, a graduate of Rush Medical College, who came to Iowa County from Kentucky in 1846, following two of his sisters who migrated to Highland, WI with their husbands and children several years earlier. His brother, Coleman Ratliff Moffett, a "daguerrotype artist," joined him in Mineral Point in 1852 and had a photography studio, complete with skylight, on the second floor. The Moffetts' father's family were Scots-Irish who settled in Bath county, KY in 1787; their mother's family; had been in the area of what is now Washington D.C. since before 1700. Other occupants of this building included Dr. J.B. Moffett; Moffet Drugs; Professor C.R. Moffett's Gallery of Fine Arts; Moffett & Vanderbie, Photographers; H.B. Chamberlain, Photographer; Pideaux Drugs; Hoskin's Gallery; William Bliss Drugs; Bossert's Ben Franklin." -from "A Field Guide to Mineral Point" by Nancy Pfotenhauer of the Mineral Point Historical Society, 1st Edition, 2012, Little Creek Press. |
|---|---|
| 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 TRIBUNE," 19 OCTOBER 1860, 18 DECEMBER 1860, 6 JANUARY 1869; "IOWA COUNTY HISTORY," CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL SOCEITY, 1881), P. 867; MINERAL POINT, TAX RECORDS, 1840-1900; SANBORN MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI., (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1884-1929; TAYLOR AND WILLITS, MINERAL POINT, IOWA COUNTY [MAP] (CHICAGO: TAYLOR AND WILLITS, 1871). B. IBID; SPACE IN BUILDING ALSO ORIGINALLY RENTED TO CUNNINGHAM BROTHERS FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERY AND DRY GOODS STORE, "MINERAL POINT TRIBUNE," 19 OCTOBER 1860, 18 DECMEBER 1860. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |