Property Record
N 88 W 16731-16733 APPLETON AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | EDWARD STARK BLOCK |
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| Other Name: | KENNY'S BAKE SHOP |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 8001 |
| Location (Address): | N 88 W 16731-16733 APPLETON AVE |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | Menomonee Falls |
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| Year Built: | 1904 |
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| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Cream Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Main Street Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/21/1988 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Multiple Resources of Menominee Falls |
| Additional Information: | 3 ORIELS ACROSS FRONT. The building originally housed the M.A. Schmoyer and Co. dry goods store on the first floor and a community hall on the second floor. At the time this building was constructed, Edward Stark was associated with the Wisconsin Sugar Co. and the M.A. Schmoyer Co. He left Menomonee Falls in 1908 to begin a sugar beet processing plant in Los Angeles and sold the building to Dr. George Hoyt in 1910. By 1913, the building contained Greengo's Variety Store and E.B. Church's Undertaking Rooms on the first floor and the Colonial Hall on the second floor. Community meetings and events often occurred in this hall; the Masons also met here. At one time, the post office occupied the south store and in the mid-1920s, Boldt's Drug Store occupied the north store. Hoyt later served as a state senator and president of Citizen's State Bank as well as owning a drug store in the Fraser Block. Hoyt sold the Stark Block in the 40s. |
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| Bibliographic References: | WAUKESHA FREEMAN 4/21/1904. Waukesha Freeman 3/4/1904. Photographs and Memories, A Pictorial History of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. 1910, 1925 Sanborn-Perris maps. Tax records. Cornice inscription. Waukesha Freeman 3/29/1904. Menomonee Falls News 7/3/1908. Menomonee Falls News 10/19/1906. Interview with Lillian Siewert 4/9/1986. Waukesha Freeman 10/3/1913. Goode, 1958: 11. Wisconsin State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1903-1904: 645. Wisconsin State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1907: 619. Interview with Elton McGee 4/9/1986. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |