Lauerman Brothers Department Store

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Lauerman Brothers Department Store
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Location1701--1721 Dunlap Sq., Marinette, Wisconsin
Coordinates 45°5′58″N87°37′51″W / 45.09944°N 87.63083°W / 45.09944; -87.63083
Arealess than one acre
Built1884
Architectural styleClassical Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No. 92000027 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 24, 1992

Lauerman Brothers Department Store was a department store chain in the early 20th century. Its flagship store in Marinette, Wisconsin is a registered historic place. The chain consisted of 13 stores in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

In 2013 the Wisconsin Historical Society Press published a history of the chain titled "Something for Everyone: Memories of Lauerman Brothers Department Store" by Michael Leannah. (ISBN 0870205811) [4]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. National Register of Historical Places - WISCONSIN (WI), Marinette County
  3. Magnaghi, Russell (June 12, 2021). "Culture, Rural Voices: Gender and Factory Work in the Upper Peninsula – Part One". Rural Voices. Retrieved March 17, 2024. Lauermans, which opened in 1904, - 1985 was the leading department store in the southern Upper Peninsula and a majority of its employees were women and . Upper Peninsula and to the south of Menominee across the river in Marinette, Wisconsin. The difference between the clothing or women's shop was that department stores were usually several stories in size and carried a variety of goods–groceries, clothing for women, men and children, undergarments, notions, yarn, cloth, linen, ready-made clothing, furniture, carpets, draperies, office supplies–to name a few housed in separate departments.
  4. 1 2 Leannah, Michael (August 26, 2013). Something for Everyone: Memories of Lauerman Brothers Department Store. Wisconsin Historical Society. ISBN   9780870205880.
  5. Nelson, P.J. (2014). "The Church and the Land: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and American Society, 1923–2007". The Annals of Iowa. pubs.lib.uiowa.edu.
  6. Corey, Carl (March 15, 2014). For Love and Money: Portraits of Wisconsin Family Businesses (Hardcover) (1st ed.). Wisconsin Historical Society Press. p. 93. ISBN   978-0870206467. 087020646X.