Portage Retail Historic District

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Portage Retail Historic District
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A portion of the district.
LocationRoughly, Cook from Wisconsin to Main, Wisconsin from Cook to Edgewater and DeWith from Conant to Edgewater, Portage, Wisconsin
Area14 acres (5.7 ha)
NRHP reference No. 95000510 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 27, 1995

The Portage Retail Historic District is located in Portage, Wisconsin. [2]

Description

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]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "Portage Retail Historic District". Travel Wisconsin. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  3. Joyce McKay (September 7, 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Portage Retail Historic District". National Park Service . Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  4. "Eulberg Brewery Saloon/Haertel Brewing". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  5. "Graham Drug Co". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  6. "James S. Williams Shoes & Harness; James Dousir Grocery". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  7. "Hillyer Block". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  8. "Beattie Block". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  9. "Fischer Paramount Theatres Co". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  10. "Ram Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  11. "First Wisconsin Bank; City Bank of Portage". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  12. "Roughly, Cook from Wisconsin to Main, Wisconsin from Cook to Edgewater and DeWitt from Conant to Edgewater". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 24, 2018.