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912 W EXCHANGE ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

Property Record

912 W EXCHANGE ST

Architecture and History Inventory
912 W EXCHANGE ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:GUMBAR BLOCK
Other Name:PIERCE'S HARDWARE
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:67979
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):912 W EXCHANGE ST
County:Green
City:Brodhead
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
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Quarter Section:
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1868
Additions:
Survey Date:1984
Historic Use:tavern/bar
Architectural Style:Italianate
Structural System:
Wall Material:Brick
Architect:
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: Exchange Square Historic District
National Register Listing Date:11/15/1984
State Register Listing Date:1/1/1989
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
Additional Information:An architecturally significant example of the commercial Italianate style in Green County, this two-story cream brick building is modest in scale but exuberant in detail. A bracketed and denticulated cast-iron cornice dominates the facade, projecting above the second story. Brick pilasters, crowned with brick capitals and connected by corbelled brick arches, divide the facade into three bays into which are set round headed two-over-two sash windows. The first floor still retains the original cast-iron posts which support the large plate glass windows and the transoms above. Built by 1873, 912 West Exchange housed a variety of business establishments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including a saloon, a post office, and a billiards hall. Purchased by the laube Brothers in 1878 (perhaps as an adition to their Opera House next door) it has remained in the Laube or the Gombar families since that date.
Bibliographic References:(A) Monroe Times 8/16/1996. (B) 1871 Bird's Eye-view of Brodhead. (C) 1873 Green County Atlas. (D) Sanborn-Perris Maps, 1887, 1893, 1900, 1908, 1915.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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