| Additional Information: | Formerly 107-109 W. Cook St.. Double store building; parapet with corbeling; round arch window lintels with keystone; string course with "dog tooth" type brick work between floors; first floor store front and one upper story window altered.
Dave Eulberg identified the more recent use of the building as a barber shop in the east half and as Porter's jewelry shop in the west half in the 1950s and Andy Knippel's jewelry in the 1940s.
Sanborn-Perris Map Co.:
1929: store
1918: east: barber and west: jewelry
1910: east: barber and west: photo
1901: east: fruit and west: millinery
1894: east: fruit and west: jewelry
1889: east: boots and shoes and west: jewelry
1885: different building
1882: bird's eye view (Stoner) shows different building.
Columbia Co. Treasurer 1863-:
107 [105]:
1925-30: John W. Helmann
1920: E.J. Carnegie
1915: Edgar Carnegie
1900-10: J.A. Johnson Est.
1880-95: J.A. Johnson
109 [107]:
1925-30: A.D. Knippel
1920: Roskie, Charles W.
1915: Charles Roskie
1900-10: J.A. Johnson Est.
1880-95: J.A. Johnson
In 1885, the building on the lot is frame. Between 1888 and 1890, the price rises from $7100 to $12,000. Since the current building stands in 1889, the building was built in 1888-89.
Directories:
1955: (107-109 [105-107]) Doc's Barber Shop; Poter's Jewelry Store (Johnson Printing Co.)
1948: (107-109 [105-107]) not listed; Knippel's Jewelry Store (Commonwealth Telephone Co.)
1937: (107-109 [105-107]) not listed; same (Commonwealth Telephone Co.)
1929: (107-109 [105-107]) Otto Helmann, barber; Knippel's Jewelry (Smith-Baumann Directory Co.) 107 [105] second floor: Downie Art Studio, photographer.
1927-28: Helmann, barber and Knippel, jeweler; Downie Art Studio (R.L. Polk & Co.)
1924-25: Andrew Knippel, jeweler listed only (R.L. Polk & Co.); August Kleist Studio
1919-20: Louise Rolleston, millinery listed only (R.L. Polk Co.)
1917: (107-109 [105-107]) Edgard J. Carnegie, barber; Miss Louise Rolleston, Milliner (Farrell); August Kleist, photographer.
1915-16: Louise Rolleston, millinery list only (R.L. Polk & Co.)
1910: (107-109 [105-107]) E.J. Carnegie, barber and A.F. Kleist, photo. in 107 [105]; Rolleston, Louise, 109 [107] (Voshardt).
1908-09: (107-109 [105-107]) no Carnegie; Louise Rolleston, millinery (S.H. Moore)
1905-06: C.W. Roskie, Jeweler (at 122 W. Cook in 1908); Louise Rolleston, millinery (R.L. Polk & Co.)
1901-02, 1903-04, 1897-98, 1895-96: Rolleston, Millinery (R.L. Polk & Co.) not there in 1893-94.
Louise Rolleston opened a millinery in the building perhaps as early as 1895. She remained in the building until about 1920.
The August F. Kleist Studio located at 107 [105] W. Cook about 1908 through 1925. The L.F. Downie Art Studio replaced A.F. Kleist by 1927 and remained at that location through 1929.
A barber was located at 107-109 [105-107] W. Cook between at least 1910 and 1955. In 1910 through 1920, Edgard J. Carnegie, and by 1925 through 1930 John Helmann worked as barbers at this address. It became Doc's Barber Shop by 1955.
Andrew Knippel located his jewelry store at 107-109 [105-107] W. Cook by 1924 and remained there through 1948. By 1955, the business had become Porter's Jewelry. |
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