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Spellman Granite Works
615 Phillips Boulevard
Sauk City, Sauk County, Wisconsin
Date of Construction: 1917
Established in 1917, Spellman Granite Works was the leading industry of its kind in the Village of Sauk City and was well-known within the industry throughout the Midwest. With a showroom, workshop, and offices, the company manufactured and installed cemetery monuments, markers, urns, and statuary between 1917 and 2005.
Begun by William Spellman, with the help of his brother John, the company’s first home was an old wagon shop in downtown Sauk City that the brothers moved to the Phillips Boulevard location using rollers and a team of horses. By 1920, younger brother Harry had joined as a partner in the firm and the brothers expanded their facility by constructing a large workshop addition to the rear of the building, doubling the property’s floor space. This new construction also included running a side track of the adjacent Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad through the new workshop to increase the efficiency of granite deliveries. By the 1930s, Spellman Granite Works was hailed as one of the chief industries of the village containing one of the largest and most beautiful showrooms in the state, with an average stock of over one hundred finished monuments and markers, a large collection of rough material, and a workshop filled with modern electric machinery. From its outset, the company also supported the local community through its donations of cornerstones and monuments for a variety of public projects throughout the Sauk Prairie area. Spellman Granite Works was a mainstay of Sauk City’s industrial landscape throughout the early twentieth century and is the most visible and most intact representative of the village’s industrial heritage.
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Spellman Granite Works
1917
Text on front reads: "Spellman Granite Works, Sauk City, Wisconsin" and "Manufacturing Plant." Two images, one above the other, an exterior and interior view of the Spellman Granite Works. Text on ...
200 Cemetery Street
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