Portage Retail Historic District
Portage Retail Historic District | |
 A portion of the district. | |
| Location | Roughly, Cook from Wisconsin to Main, Wisconsin from Cook to Edgewater and DeWith from Conant to Edgewater, Portage, Wisconsin |
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| Area | 14 acres (5.7 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 95000510[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 27, 1995 |
The Portage Retail Historic District is located in Portage, Wisconsin.[2]
Description[edit]
The site is a business district located near the Portage Canal.[3] Buildings within the district include the 1866 Italianate City Brewery,[4] the 1873 Italianate Graham Drug Company,[5] the 1881 Italianate Williams Shoes and Harness shop,[6] the 1889 Queen Anne Hillyer Block (which housed the High Priced Grocery),[7] the 1891 3-story Italianate Beattie Block,[8] the 1927 Georgian Revival Portage Theater,[9] the 1927 Ram Hotel,[10] and the 1929 Art Deco City Bank of Portage.[11] It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 1994 and to the National Register of Historic Places the following year.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "Portage Retail Historic District". Travel Wisconsin. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^ Joyce McKay (September 7, 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Portage Retail Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "Eulberg Brewery Saloon/Haertel Brewing". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "Graham Drug Co". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "James S. Williams Shoes & Harness; James Dousir Grocery". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "Hillyer Block". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "Beattie Block". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "Fischer Paramount Theatres Co". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "Ram Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "First Wisconsin Bank; City Bank of Portage". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- ^ "Roughly, Cook from Wisconsin to Main, Wisconsin from Cook to Edgewater and DeWitt from Conant to Edgewater". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
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