| Additional Information: | Heavy metal cornice, parapet, and lattice work.
2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan recommendation write-up:
This two-story, brick commercial building features storefront windows with a recessed entry, above which is a transom. The second floor carries three, tall-and-narrow, double-hung sash windows, each with s plain stone sill and a decorative brick window hood. Additional decorative brickwork set in a rectangle is located beneath each sill. The metal cornice features a central parapet peak, from which extends latticework detailing. A historic photo indicates that little has been done to alter the building.
This building was built by William Hilmert in circa 1884. Hilmert was born in 1830 in Lippe-Detmold, Germany, where he apprenticed as a carpenter. He married German-born Maria Michel Niemeier in Sheboygan and they had eight children, four of whom died young. As of 1870, Hilmert was a dealer in flour and feed and, for much of his life, was involved in real estate. The Hilmert family resided on the second floor of the subject building. William died in 1888, after which the building was owned by the Hilmert’s daughter Louise Fischer; she, her husband Henry, and their family also lived in the building. By 1893, the storefront was occupied by clothier Mayer Max. By 1897, B. Reichmann operated a dry goods, ladies and gents’ furnishings store in the building, after which Herman F. and Lena Krueger ran a paints and wallpapers store out of the first floor. The storefront changed occupants a few more times before John Grandlic Sr. moved his jewelry and watchmaking business (est. 1910) from 1117 N. 8th Street to this building, opening in March 1921. Also located in the building was the A.W. Kowert Music House. Following the death of John Grandlic Jr., Rudy Grandlic joined with Jim Kisiolek to run the business as Grandlic & Kisiolek Jewelers, which continues today in the building as J. Kisiolek Jewelers.
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Sheboygan and Vicinity (1898).
LJM Architects, Inc. City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Architectural and Historical Intensive Survey Report. City of Sheboygan Historic Preservation Commission & Department of City Development; 2002, 2004 & 2006.
Citations from the 2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan recommendation write-up:
Sheboygan City Directory, 1884, 1886, 1887-88, 1891; Tax Assessment Rolls, City of Sheboygan, 1888; Portrait and Biographical Record of Sheboygan County, Wis., 1898, 610; Advertisement (re: opening of J. Grandlic & Son at 1103 N. 8th Street), The Sheboygan Press, 10 March 1921, 9; Advertisement (re: A.W. Kowert Music House), The Sheboygan Press, 21 November 1921, 7; “John Grandlic, Sr., Jeweler For Many Years, Is Summoned,” The Sheboygan Press, 18 April 1947, 8; “Mayer Max, Well Known Retired Merchant, Dies, The Sheboygan Press, 9 June 1956, 6; “John Grandlic,” Obituary, The Sheboygan Press, 29 March 1983, 4; In Jami Lemke, “Window Cleaning Led to Restoration,” The Sheboygan Press, 31 October 1994, D12, the article incorrectly states that Grandlic had moved into the subject building in 1905. The building was incorrectly identified as built in 1904 in “Final Report,” 176. |
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