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 (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

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

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

• Expanded c1950

• Grusin's closes 1984

• North Main Pawn

SEE ALSO

• Calvary Assembly of God (1951)

• Dilegge's (c1900)

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

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)

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 churchBottom – Gym awaiting demolition 1976

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

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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