Property Record
120 N Main St
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Hangartner Block |
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| Other Name: | The Centrum Building |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 14697 |
| Location (Address): | 120 N Main St |
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| County: | Washington |
| City: | West Bend |
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| Year Built: | 1893 |
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| Additions: | 1930 1985 |
| Survey Date: | 19872022 |
| Historic Use: | theater/opera house/concert hall |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Frederick Velguth (1893) |
| Other Buildings On Site: | N |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | West Bend Downtown Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 3/17/2023 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 11/18/2022 |
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| Additional Information: | Fluted, doric pilasters which were original to the building once flanked large transomed display windows on the first floor. These features have been replaced with a modern storefront. Elements still present include unusual segmental arch lintes with keystones, lintel and sill courses, and second floor polygonal oriels. Another map code is 19/24 on the Hand drawn map. A fire in 1930 destroyed the third story where the Opera House was originally located. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Tax rolls, City of West Bend, 1892, 1893; Janean Mollet-Van Beckum, Images of America: West Bend (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Printing, 2015), 37. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |