Transcript North Main - Vanderburgh County Historical Society

North Main St
View along the 700 block of North Main St
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
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 (18861980)
– 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
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 (18801953) – razed for bank
• Walsh Baking Co (1905-2002)
– Turoni's parking
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
Brinker Drugs
• H J Brinker builds
drugstore c1896
• Remained drug
store for decades
– Meyer Drug c1922
– Keener Pharmacy
c1930s
• Nick-Nackery
Place c1985
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)
Parke Memorial Presbyterian
• 1889 church is built in Gothic Revival
• 1922 addition in the rear
• House catercorner served as
parsonage donated by Bayard family
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
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
Grusin's Dept Store
• Department store opens
1938
• Art Deco designed by
Edwin Berendes
• Terra cotta front, buff with
brown base
• Corner entrance
SEE ALSO
• Expanded c1950
• Calvary Assembly of
God (1951)
• Grusin's closes 1984
• North Main Pawn
• Dilegge's (c1900)
Overell building
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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
400 N Main Block
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Bosse Bros c1900
– Wholesale and retail market
– Remodeled 1917
– Turnonis moved here c1980
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416 N Main (c1890)
– Peter Burnikel bakery, later
Anton F White bicycle repair
– Now cake supply
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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)
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
St Lucas Evangelical
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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
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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