North Main St

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North Main St
View along the 700 block of North Main St
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North Main

• Natural extension of Main St
• Area platted as Sullivanstown
• Growth centered around North Main
• Infill between it and Lamasco
• Street cars went up North Main St
• North Main was a business corridor, manufacturing
  nearer Belt RR and Division St
• North Side Business Men Association 1912
• Severed from Main St when Civic Center was built
  1960s

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Schmitt Grocery

• Built c1882
• Owned by family for years served as grocery
  and/or saloon
• Later Schmittys Cafe
• Jerraco Tavern

• ALSO SEE
• OK Bakery (1920-1987) Herrmann Bros (1886-1980)
• Razed for Vectren
• Blount Plow (1881-1970)
• Now Buehler's IGA
• Handy Furniture Co (1923)
• later Holl Korn
• North Side Bank (1912)
• also a theater

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Farmer's Dairy

• Built 1921
• Designed by Alfred E Neucks in the Prairie style
• Second story added 1923
• Becomes Koch Dairy Co 1928

• SEE ALSO
• Capelle residence (c1891)
• Evansville Coffin Co (1880-1953) razed for bank
• Walsh Baking Co (1905-2002) Turoni's parking

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St. Paul Lutheran

• Church founded 1887 with help of Emanuel Lutheran
• Brick church built 1907
• Frank J Schlotter Gothic Revival
• Original building later a school, 2nd school
  built behind church
• Brick parish hall (rear) built 1926
• Rest of block and original building cleared for
  school c1950
• School addition c1970

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Brinker Drugs

• H J Brinker builds drugstore c1896
• Remained drug store for decades
• Meyer Drug c1922
• Keener Pharmacy c1930s
• Nick-Nackery Place c1985

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Hose House No. 10

• Built 1889
• Oldest fire station building in town
• Italianate designed by Frank J Schlotter
• Originally had a tower
• Fire station moved across street 1977
• Purple 1920s street signs on side of building

SEE ALSO Wesley ME (1913) Meyers Market (c1890)
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Parke Memorial Presbyterian

• 1889 church is built in Gothic Revival
• 1922 addition in the rear
• House catercorner served as parsonage donated by
  Bayard family

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Stinson Bros

• Stinson Brothers opens new store
• Built 1909
• 1931 Stinson brothers retire, renamed Goeke's

• SEE ALSO
• Post office station A annex 1914
• 714 N Main built 1909 for Chas Miller,712 built
  as twin c1911

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Bauer Building

• Rouscher Miller dealer in choice and fancy
  groceries
• Michael Bauer built c1897
• Next door c1930
• Turonis early 1980s
• Evansville Police North Sector office
• Mesker storefront
• Jacobsville Join-In office

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Grusin's Dept Store

• Department store opens 1938
• Art Deco designed by Edwin Berendes
• Terra cotta front, buff with brown base
• Corner entrance
• Expanded c1950
• Grusin's closes 1984
• North Main Pawn

• SEE ALSO
• Calvary Assembly of God (1951)
• Dilegge's (c1900)

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Overell building

• E B Overell Co grocery
• Edmond B Overell building 1894
• Vacant for a few years until 1901 when Lindley
  dry goods occupied store
• George C Vickery grocery
• Blue Bunny store
• Economy Super Store
• Now Lucky Lady
• Mesker storefront

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400 N Main Block

• Bosse Bros c1900
• Wholesale and retail market
• Remodeled 1917
• Turnonis moved here c1980
• 416 N Main (c1890)
• Peter Burnikel bakery, later Anton F White
  bicycle repair
• Now cake supply
• 422 N Main (c1880)
• Weigand Saloon
• Cameo cleaners, antique store, recently Abbey Rd
  Coffee

• SEE ALSO
• Shirley Todd / Knotty Pine (c1900-2015)
• IBM building (c1950)

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Baker Ave School

• Built 1871-2 for the North Main area (5 in the
  city)
• Additions
• School No. 2 late 1880s
• Virginia St School 1890s
• Gym/auditorium 1922
• Closed 1973 as part of desegregation effort
• Razed 1976
• Hopeland workshop built on site 1980, now SWIRCA

Top - Baker School (buildings No. 2 and 3)
looking from out the church Bottom Gym awaiting
demolition 1976
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St Lucas Evangelical

• Built 1889
• Gothic style by architect Frank J Schlotter
• St Lucas Hall built catercorner 1907, enlarged
  1939
• Administration / education wing completed 1968
• Hall now Lucas Place offering housing to
  homeless families

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Fire Alarm Station

• Hose House No. 4 built 1897, relocates from small
  building downtown to serve growing area
• 1914 alarm station still stands
• Moved 1962 out to Oak Hill
• Torn down 1974

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