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100 E COOK

Historic Name:
Portage Cook Stove; Kerr's Restaurant

Other Name:
T.J. Family Cafe

Reference Number:
41125

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Property Location

Location (Address)

100 E COOK

County

Columbia

City/Village

Portage

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1892

Additions

Survey Date

1992

Historic Use

small retail building

Architectural Style

Commercial Vernacular

Structural System

Brick

Wall Material

Brick

Architect

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

Parapet; pilasters divide building; corbeling cast iron window hoods; windows partly closed; recessed rectangular panel below each window; canted wall with entrance; current metal storefront along the first floor.

Bibliographic References

Sanborn Perris Map Co. 1929: Store 1918: Grocery 1910: Vacant 1894: Clothing 1885: Building not there Columbia Co. Treasurer 1863 192530: Fields mand Peterson 1900-20: Arthur Evans Est. 1892-95: Arthur Evans 1890-91: Building not there The tax assessment records indicate that the building was erected in 1892. Directories: 1955: (1200-102) Kerr's Restaurant (Johnson Printing Co.) 1948: 1937: (100) Kerr's Restaurant (Commonwealth Telephone Co.) 1929: Portage Cash Store and Market, F.W. Gilbert (Smith Baumann) 1917: Portage Cash Store (Farrell) 1910, 1908-09; No listing for 100/102 E. Cook and Portage Cash Store is not listed in R. L. Polk in 1917-18 or before. The directories indicate that the building functioned as the Portage Cash Store by at least 1917 until at least 1929/ By 1937, it had become Kerr's Restaurant which remained in business at 100 E. cook until at least 1955.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

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State Register Listing Date

Contributing

Yes

small retail building Commercial Vernacular

Columbia
County

Portage
Community

1890-1899
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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