Property Record
35 HIGH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | GUNDRY & THOMAS BUILDING |
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| Other Name: | POTTER POTTERY STUDIO |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 59260 |
| Location (Address): | 35 HIGH ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1857 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | small retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Mineral Point Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/30/1971 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | THIS THREE-STORY RETAIL BUILDING, DESIGNED IN THE COMMERCIAL VERNACULAR STYLE, WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1857 (SEE BIB. REF. A), WITH ADDITIONS MADE TO IT BEFORE 1884. THE STRUCTURE FEATURES AN IRREGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, A STONE EXTERIOR, A STONE TRIM AND A FLAT ROOF. STONE LINTELS AND SILLS ADORN THE SECOND-STORY SIX-OVER-SIX WINDOWS. PROJECTING FORWARD OVER THE STOREFRONT AND VISUALLY SEPARATING THE FIRST AND SECOND STORIES IS A WOODEN CORNICE DETAILED WITH DENTIL TRIM, BRACKETS AND PENDANTS. THIS CORNICE, WHICH WAS DATED 1890, ORIGINALLY HAD A CENTERED ENTRANCE APPEARING BENEATH IT. LARGE SCALE STONE ADDITIONS ARE ATTACHED AT THE REAR. THE BUILDING IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE NAMES BY WHICH THIS BUILDING WAS HISTORICALLY KNOWN ARE INDICATIVE OF ITS COMMERCIAL VITALITY. THESE NAMES INCLUDE THE GUNDRY AND THOMAS BUILDING (SEE BIB. REF. A), THE GUNDRY AND GRAY HARDWARE (SEE BIB. REF. B), THE HOCKING AND JENKINS HARDWARE, AND THE JENKINS AND SONS HARDWARE (SEE BIB. REF. C). THE HARDWARE STORE CONDUCTED BUSINESS AT THIS SITE FROM 1857 TO 1929. (SEE BIB. REF. A, B, C). THIS BUILDING WAS DESIGNATED LOCALLY, BECOMING PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT IN 1972. 2012- "Constructed by Joseph Gundry & Richard Thomas. Jooseph Gundry first came to Mineral Point from Cornwall in 1845; after a trip back to Cornwall in 1847 to take care of family business he returned to Mineral Point in 1848 with his new wife, Sarah Perry Gundry. This was the third location for his dry goods business. Businesses here were Gundry's Cheap Cash Store; Gundry & Gray Dry Goods; S. Hocking Hardware; Hocking & Jenkins Hardware; Nick Gerlach Hardware; Hollister Jones Plumbing Shop; Paul Terrill Plumbing; and R. F. Potter Gallery." -from "A Field Guide to Mineral Point" by Nancy Pfotenhauer of the Mineral Point Historical Society, 1st Edition, 2012, Little Creek Press. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 151: Dodgeville To Belmont.” WHS project number 92-0510IA/LT. October 1993. Prepared by Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center (GLARC). A. MINERAL POINT, TAX RECORDS, 1840-1900; SANBORN MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI (NEW YORK: SANBRON MAP CO., 1884-1929); ABSTRACT OF PROPERTY, IN POSSESSION OF OWNER, ROBERT POTTER PER SERENA NELSON, INTERVIEW WITH JOAN RAUSCH, 2 MAY 1992; MINERAL POINT TRIBUNE, 6 JANUARY 1869; MINERAL POINT, TAX RECORDS, 1840-1930; TAYLOR AND WILLITS, MINERAL POINT, IOWA COUNTY [MAP] (CHICAGO: TAYLOR AND WILLITS, 1871). B. MINERAL POINT TRIBUNE, 6 JANUARY 1869; MINERAL POINT, TAX RECORDS, 1840-1930; TAYLOR AND WILLITS, MINERAL POINT, IOWA COUNTY [MAP] (CHICAGO: TAYLOR AND WILLITS, 1871). C. ABSTRACT OF PROPERTY, IN POSSESSION OF OWNER, ROBERT POTTER PER SERENA NELSON, INTERVIEW WITH JOAN ROUSCH, 2 MAY 1992; IOWA COUNTY DEMOCRAT, 10 MARCH 1898; MINERAL POINT TRIBUNE, 14 OCTOBER 1897. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |