Property Record
608 N 3RD ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Plier Grocery store |
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| Other Name: | Encore Consignment |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 50682 |
| Location (Address): | 608 N 3RD ST |
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| County: | Marathon |
| City: | Wausau |
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| Year Built: | 1928 |
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| Survey Date: | 19832017 |
| Historic Use: | grocery |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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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: | Leaded glass transoms; stone cornice below roofline; elevation terminates in stepped element with stone coping and heraldic crest at center. Another modest vernacular commercial structure giving testimony to commercial design during the period of significance is the Plier grocery store. Built in 1928, the building is simply detailed with a stone cornice beneath a stepped roofline crowned with a crested shield. The windows are banded, giving evidence of skeletal frame advances and the corresponding new aesthetic. Carl Plier had a grocery store on this sitie as early as 1922, but had a new building constructed in 1928. Tax application 2/1989. 2017: New storefront windows and new second-floor windows. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Sanborn Map, 1938. (B) Wausau City Directory, 1931. 1929 city directory. In Aucutt, Hettinga & Jansen, "Wausau Beautiful" (2nd ed., 2010), 39. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |