Property Record
N89 W16389 MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | FYE BUILDING |
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| Other Name: | COUNTRY CRAFT FURNITURE STORE |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 8128 |
| Location (Address): | N89 W16389 MAIN ST |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | Menomonee Falls |
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| Year Built: | 1896 |
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| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | large 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: | PORCH ACROSS FRONT. John Fye, a blacksmith, erected this building in 1896. From 1897, to at least 1899, the Stark brothers, Henry and George, had a general store in the building. Their partnership had dissolved by 1901. In 1908, the Rudolph brothers leased the Fye Building. Dr. G.W. Perrin, a physician and surgeon, established an office here in 1913. Dr. C.A. Faber replaced Dr. G.W. Lyon in the building as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in 1919. Albert R. Baer purchased the building from Fye in 1920 and established the Black Hawk Hosiery Mill in the second story above the Rudolph Brothers General Store. Neither business remained in operation after 1924. The two bay east addition was constructed soon after the building was built. It was clad with brick sometime between 1910-1925. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Waukesha Freeman, 10/7/1896. Waukesha Freeman 4/3/1897. Menomonee Falls News 4/2/1920. Menomonee Falls News 10/15/1920. 1910, 1925 Sanborn-Perris maps. Menomonee Falls News 2/24/1944. Tax records. C. 1910 photograph of the Fye Building at the Menomonee Falls Puble Library. Hartford Press 3/4/1897. Menomonee Falls News 10/16/1908. Menomonee Falls News 4/21/1920. Menomonee Falls News 11/21/1919. Wright, 1898: 300. R.L. Polk and Co., 1917: 552-553. Waukesha Freeman 5/17/1888. Waukesha Freeman 10/27/1887. R.L. Polk and Co., 1901: 595-596. Menomonee Falls News 10/1/1909. Interview with Lillian Siewert 4/9/1986. Menomonee Falls News 1/17/1913. R.L. Polk and Co., 1924. Haight, 1907: 609. Johnson, 1985: 24, 27. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |