| Additional Information: | Parapet with dentils; cornice removed; round arch windows and lintels along third floor and round arch lintels along second; string course under second floor windows; first floor store front altered.
Dave Eulberg identified the building as onw owned by the brewery and occupied by the Circle Bar through the 1950s (Eulberg 1993).
Sanborn-Perris Map Co.
1929: drugs
1918: office
1910: loan office
1901: shoes
1894, 1889, 1885: clothing and gent's furnishings and IOOF Hall on third in 1885, sleep and work rooms on second floor.
1868: building present (Rugen).
Columbia Co. Treasurer 1863-
1910-1930: Eulberg Brewery Co.
1905: Florian Wolf
1895, 1900: Eulberg Bros.
1885, 1890: F.W. Schulze
1880, 1881: C. Haertel Est.
1865-1876: C. Haertel
The valuation of the estate along with the Rugen map suggests that the building was erected between 1866 and 1867.
Directories:
1955: (135) Circle Bar (Johnson Printing Co.)
1948: (135) Circle Bar (Commonwealth Telephone Co.)-not 1937.
1929: (135) Nu Drug Store; second: Dr. H.J. Lohr, Chiro and H.B. Rogers, Lawyer; third: K of P Hall (Smith-Baumann).
1924-25, 1921, 1919-20: Portage Mortgage, Loan and Trust Co., (R.L. Polk & Co.) (not 1927-28).
1917: (135) Portage Mortgage, Loan and Trust Co., also B of L Hall; Rogers and Rogers, lawyers and H.J. Heinz and Co., food products (Farrell).
1915-16, 1913-14, 1911-12: Portage Mortgage, Loan and Trust Co. (R.L. POlk & Co.).
1910: (135) Portgage Mortgage, Loan and Trust Co. (Voshardt).
1908: (135) Portgage Mortgage Loan and Trust Co. (S.H. Moore).
Goodman is not listed after 1890 (R.L. Polk & Co.). Buckley and Leisch do not appear to have used 131 and 135.
1890: Ph. Goodman Co. (Maurice Goodman, James A. Carroll and C.C. Buckley) merchant tailors and men's furnishings located at 33-35 W. Cook (matches Sanborn) (Wright).
1886: Ph. Goodman, principal merchant tailor of Wisconsin, Cook (Rockwood and Goodell).
1885: Goodman, Phillip, merchant tailor (R.L. Polk & Co.)
1884-85: Goodman, Phillip, clothing (R.L. Polk & CO.)
1873: Goodman, clothing (Platt).
1870: Goodman, P. clothing merchant, Cook; not listed in 1865 (Hawes).
Philip H. Goodman, born in Bavaria, entered the shop of L. Funkenstein, merchant tailor. in 1867. Funkenstein had begun his tailor operation in Portage by 1860 employing seven workers. At the retirement of his employer probably in the late 1860s, Goodman established his own shop. In the 1870s, he employed 24 workers in the second floor of the Pettibone Block. By 1884 through 1894, the company ha dlocated at 135 W. Cook. After Goodman's death in 1886, the enterprise was continued by the estate. In 1887, Maurice Goodman with J.A. Carroll and C.C. Buckley established Ph. Goodman Company. C.C. Buckley began employment as a traveling salesman for the Goodman shops in 1875. J.C. Leisch worked in the Goodman shop as a cutter from 1885. Teh company then employed about 50 tailors in 1887. Buckley and Leisch formed from this company in 1895 then employing 16 tailors at a different location, teh site of Wood's Barber shop. In teh late 1890s, Buckley and Leisch were the largest merchant tailors in Portage and much of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee. They served customers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. By 1908, Buckley and Leisch formed a men's clothers and furnishings store at 131 W. Cook (56/24) (Portage Daily Register 12/23/1889; 9/3/1909; Democrat 7/30/1897; Butterfield 1880: 900; Turner, A.J. 1903: 17; U.S. Bureau of teh Census 1880 [industrial schedules]).
The Portage Mortgage, Loan and Trust Company formed in 1905. It offered loans using real estate as its major collateral. Prior to 1908, the POrtgage Mortgage, Loan and Trust Company was located on tehs econd floor of Graham's Drugstore at 301 DeWitt (25/6). By 1908 through 1917 and perhaps as late as 1925, the company was located at 135 W. Cook (56/25) (Jones 1914 [1]; Daugherty 1898-1992).
Josiah H. Rogers opened his law practice at Portgage in 1871. Between 1871 and 1879, he formed a partnership with G.J. Cox which later included his son Harlan B. Rogers. Rogers was elected to the position of district attorney between 1874 and 1880 and served as the city attorney in the 1880s and as mayor in 1887. Associated with the Republican Party, he served at several state conventions. From 1873 through 1917, the law offices of the firm were located at 139 W. Cook (56/26). By 1929, they occupied 135 W. Cook (56/25). By 1937, H.B. Rogers moved to offices above the City Bank Building at 202 W. Cook (57/8) and in 1948 through 1955 over 238 W. Wisconsin (24/32). His law firm continues to the present under the name of Miller, Rogers, and Owens located in offices recently constructed at 311 DeWitt (25/9) (Butterfield 1880: 923; Ogle, Geo. A. & Co. 1901: 722-24; Jones 1914 [2]: 536-37; Portgage Centennial Committee 1952).
In 1903, the City of Portgage offerred a free building site to the H.J. Heinz Pickle Company. The company located their salting station at teh corner of Brady and Colt in 1904, and offices in 1917 at 135 W. Cook (56/25). H.J. Heinz Company originally raised the cucumbers on its own acreage located near Pardeeville and Plainfield. After 1944, the company no longer owned the farmlands but did provide labor camps for the laborers working for local farmers. One such camp existed on CTH EE near Portgage. In 1925, there were seventeen salting stations in Wisconsin. The first had been established in Sparta in 1898. Producers trucked the cucumbers to more numerous receiving stations such as those at Rio and Briggsville, and then they were transferred to teh salting stations. After roads improved, the intermediary receiving stations closed. At the salting station, employees sorted the cucumbers by size, cured them in the salt brine, and shipped them by rail to pickle factories in, for example, Muscatine, Iowa and Holland, Michigan. By 1923 when the plant seasonally employed 125 individuals, Portgage became the main branch office in the state. Heinze operated the plant until 1971. Sometime after that date the plant was demolished (Church 1970: 18; Columbia County Historical Society 1982; Sanborn-Perris Map Company 1910, 1918, 1929; WPA 1939: 52; Portgage Daily Register 6/10/1972).
The lodge hall in the upper story of 135 W. Cook was used by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1885. By 1917, the Elks had located in the hall on the second floor of 135 W. Cook (56/25). Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 35 located in the hall by about 1929. |
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