Property Record
234 HIGH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | FELDERMAN HARDWARE BUILDING |
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| Other Name: | FELDERMAN HARDWARE |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 59708 |
| Location (Address): | 234 HIGH ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1865 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | small retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Wood |
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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: | RISING ONE STORY IN HEIGHT, THIS CONTEMPORARY STYLED RETAIL BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN THE LATE 1960'S AND THE 1970'S. IT FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A CONCRETE BLOCK FOUNDATION, A SIDED EXTERIOR, A WOOD PANEL TRIM AND A FLAT ROOF. A PREDOMINANT MATERIAL USED ON THE STOREFRONT IS GLASS, FOUND ON THE DISPLAY WINDOWS, THE TRANSOM LIGHT, THE SIDELIGHT AND THE MAIN ENTRANCE. THE STRUCTURE IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE FELDERMAN HARDWARE BUILDING, AS IT WAS HISTORICALLY KNOWN AND IS CURRENTLY KNOWN, IS PRESENTLY BEING USED AS RETAIL SPACE. THE BUILDING WAS DESIGNATED LOCALLY, BECOMING PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT IN 1972. 2012- "The original building on this site was a two-story, frame structure housing first T. Davey's jewelry business, then William Mauger's jewelry and watch making business. in the late 1870s, the upper floor was occupied by J.W. Osborn, a homeopathc physician who was born in Darlingotn and later was a brother-in-law of Margery Gundry King, daughter of Joseph Gundry of Mineral Point. The upper floor was also occupied at various times by dressmakers Bessie Kaler and the Misses Dunn. The frame building burned about 1929 and the lot was vacant until 1971 when the Feldermans enclosed the space to use as an extension of their hardwar store. This one-story building was also the location of Clark's Bootery; Ridnour's antique mall; Cahill's Flower Shop; and M Studio." -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. SERENA NELSON, INTERVIEW WITH JOAN RAUSCH, MINERAL POINT, WI., 2 MAY 1992; SANBORN INSURANCE MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI., (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1884-1929). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |