Property Record
922 WATER ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Cunradi's Drug Store |
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| Other Name: | Schlieger Jewelers |
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| Reference Number: | 91473 |
| Location (Address): | 922 WATER ST |
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| County: | Sauk |
| City: | Sauk City |
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| Year Built: | 1857 |
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| Survey Date: | 199320072023 |
| Historic Use: | large retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Boomtown |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | in 1848 , Edmund Rendtorff bought this apothecary business from Charles Haraszthy, the first village druggist. Before 1851, Rendtorff formed a partnership with Robert Cunradi, a 48er, a German political refugee and a trained druggist. They had a friendly parting in 1873 and Cunradi continued building the business. Cunradi sold the business when his health began to fail to a pharmacy graduate, August Marquardt, who married Cunradi's daughter Emma. Marquardt remodeled the store in 1900, but because of the fire in 1877, many other businesses moved north of the bridge corner. So he purchased land to build his drugstore on 800 Water Street. 1993- "Known now as Schlieger Jewelers, this two story commercial building was built in the Boomtown style. Unlike many of the other commercial buildings in Sauk City, the front of this store has not been "modernized." Indeed, a very good sense of scale massing are conveyed by this structure. It is, nevertheless, sheathed with narrow aluminum or vinyl siding. A date of 1857 is prominently noted in the false front's cornice. This structure is a rather unique case in that the new siding mirrors the scale of the narrow clapboard siding with which it was probably originally sheathed." - "USH 12, Sauk City to Middleton", WisDOT ID #5300-03-01, Prepared by John N Vogel, PhD (1993). A large addition has also been added to the rear of the original building. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 12: Middleton To Sauk City.” WHS project number 89-0646/DA/SK. April 1993. Prepared by John Vogel. Historic Sauk City Walking Tour brochure, 2012. Goc., Michael J. Lives lived here: a walk through the history of Sauk City. New Past Press, 1992, pp. 53-54. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |