Property Record
41 MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Stoll and Co. Hardware |
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| Other Name: | OUR OWN HARDWARE STORE |
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| Reference Number: | 2566 |
| Location (Address): | 41 MAIN ST |
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| County: | Buffalo |
| City: | Fountain City |
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| Year Built: | 1869 |
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| Survey Date: | 2001 |
| Historic Use: | hardware |
| Architectural Style: | Boomtown |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This red brick, two-story commercial buildding displays a cut-stone foundation and segmental arched window on the front and north side elevation and a brick pediment or parapet. A small balcony is located on the second story. Contemporary materials and small windows characterize the storefront area on the lower story. This brick hardware store was constructed in 1869 for the Swiss immigrant Jacob Stoll and his partner and son-in-law, Christ Florin. A tin shop was installed in the adjacent one-story frame building by 1904 and continued to occupy the building until at least 1931. Various members of the Stoll family operated this hardware store until 1982. The building and business was sold in 1982 and remodeled as an apartment house in 1988. The iron storefront was removed in the late 1980s and the iron columns reused in the Old Towne conference center in the city of Menominee. The Stoll Hardware Store building does not meet the criteria for the National Register for architectural significance (Criterion C) because it has lost considerable historic integrity. The exterior has been altered by the addition of contemporary materials to the lower story and the second story balcony has been replaced. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Sanborn-Perris Maps for Fountain City, 1887-1931. Geschichte Von Fountain City, Vol. 1, p. 47; Vol. 2, pp. 25, 170. Fountain City Area Historical Society Newsletter, 25 June 2001, p. 3. History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881, p. 167. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |