Property Record
1535 COMMERCIAL ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Barber Shop / Coffee Cup Cafe |
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| Other Name: | Coffee Cup Cafe |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 72458 |
| Location (Address): | 1535 COMMERCIAL ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | Bangor |
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| Year Built: | 1905 |
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| Survey Date: | 19922020 |
| 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: | Bangor Commercial Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 10/11/2022 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/18/2022 |
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| Additional Information: | This small, one-story Commercial Vernacular building was constructed c.1905. It is rectangular in plan with a clapboard and vertical board façade and a flat roof hidden behind a rectangular parapet that spans the width of the building. The building shares party walls on both sides. The front elevation faces north and is asymmetrical in plan due to an off-center front entrance. The storefront is sheltered beneath an asphalt-shingled shed roofed awning and consists of a single-pane shop window (downsized from the original) and a recessed entrance with a single-pane transom above. Above the shed-roof, the wall is clad in clapboard with unornamented corner boards and a narrow, unornamented cornice. Unornamented wood corner boards are located above the awning roof. This building was constructed c.1905 and served as a barber shop through at least the late 1920s. Between 1911 and 1922, the building was expanded to the rear (southward) with a metal-clad rear wall added. Since at least the 1940s, the building has served as the Coffee Cup Café under numerous owners. By the mid-1970s, the existing vertical board siding and a wood-shingled awning roof had been installed. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |