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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2002-06-03 HPC Packet• Ater THE BIRTHPLACE OF MINNESOTA HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION HERITAGE PRESERVATION MEETING NOTICE THE STILLWATER HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION WILL MEET MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2002 700PM CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS CITY HALL 216 NORTH FOURTH STREET AGENDA Approval of the May 6, 2002 minutes 1 Case No DR/02-29 Design review of extenor signage for Buona Sera at 402 South Main Street Wayne Cullinan, representing applicant 2 Case No DR/02-30 Design review of sign package for 102 Second Street South Mark Balay, representing applicant 3 Case No DR/02-31 Design review of extenor signage for Amy's at Brunswick Cafe and Pastry Shop located at 114 Chestnut Street Renee K Flesner representing applicant 4 Case No DR/02-32 Design review of extenor signage at 221 North Main Street Dan Schulte representing Kagan Binder Attorneys 5 Case No DR/02-33 Design review of an office park at Curve Crest Blvd and Hwy 36 MSP Development Co , LLC, applicant 6 Case No DR/02-34 Design review of extenor modifications, signage and seating for the St Croix Saloon located at 112 North Main Street Jessica Junker and Chns Wallace, applicants Other items a Review of final draft of the West Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Architectural Survey — Don Empson CITY HALL 216 NORTH FOURTH STILLWATER MINNESOTA 55082 PHONE 651-430-8800 City of Stillwater Hentage Preservation Commission May 6, 2002 Present Howard Lieberman, Chairperson Beth Diem, Phil Eastwood, Diane Hark, Jeff Johnson, Brent Peterson, and Roger Tomten Others Sue Fitzgerald, planner Absent None Mr Lieberman called the meeting to order at 7 p m Approval of minutes Mr Johnson, seconded by Mr Eastwood, moved approval of the minutes of Apnl 10, 2002 Motion passed unanimously Case No DR 02-18 Design review of addition to Eagle Valley Bank at 1946 Washington Avenue South Elliot Architects representing the applicant A representative of the architectural firm was present and bnefly reviewed plans Parking will remain as is, as will the existing signage The intent of the addition is to get tenants at grade level, with the lower level for storage The addition will be E I F S and cultured stone, a tin roof will be bid as an alternate There was a concern that the requested soffit lighting over each window (16) seemed excessive Mr Tomten also expressed a concern that cultured stone would not be used on the west elevation as well as the front elevation, he suggested spreading the stone out evenly on all four sides, using the stone underneath the window placement The plan is for two at -grade mechanical units, it was suggested the best placement for the mechanicals might be to the south of the property and screened with landscaping Mr Johnson moved approval as conditioned, changing condition No 4 to indicate the trash enclosure will remain wood and painted to match the addition, with the additional conditions that the additional soffit lighting be limited to the main entry and side door, that the mechanical equipment be screened from view with a suggested location at the south of the property, that stone be earned around the west elevation, and that there be no additional signage other than the existing pylon sign Mr Peterson seconded the motion, motion passed unammously Case No DR/02-21 Design review of landscape plan for the Histonc Courthouse, 101 W Pine St Carolyn Phelps, applicant Ms Fitzgerald said she had checked the schedule of plant matenals The intent is to use histoncally appropriate matenals, she said, and she said she thought the plan looks good Mr Johnson suggested keeping any plantings that will be of large height when mature away from the City of Stillwater Hentage Preservation Commission May 6, 2002 wall Mr Lieberman stated the HPC's action at this point was to give concept approval to phase 1, with the applicant to return as more final plans are developed in phase 2 Case No DR/02-22 Design review of house plans for 323 Sixth St S John Bailey, applicant Mr Bailey was present and showed drawings of the proposed homes He said he was present to show the HPC that the plans match what he said he would build when the HPC granted the demolition permit Mr Johnson asked if the intent was to carry details such as wide corner boards and window details on all elevations, Mr Bailey said that is his intent Mr Johnson commented that the window placements on the side/rear elevations don't work as well as the front, Mr Bailey said the placements fit the floor plan Ms Diem suggested the side and rear elevations will change when a survey is completed due to the topography of the site Mr Tomten suggested some design elements to cut down on the garage massing Mr Lieberman summed up the discussion by noting that Mr Bailey had stated he would come back to the HPC with plans when the demolition permit was issued Mr Bailey has done so, and received input from the HPC Should there be substantial modifications of plans in the future, Mr Bailey will return to the HPC Case No DR/02-23 Design review of outside sales addition for P J Asch, 413 E Nelson St Mike McGuire, applicant Deb Asch was present There was little discussion Mr Johnson, seconded by Ms Hark, moved approval as submitted Motion passed unanimously Case No DEM/02-02 Demolition request for block building located at 207 Nelson St E Steve Bremer, applicant Mr Bremer was present Mr Lieberman reviewed the nine required steps for the issuance of a demolition permit and the HPC's charge in such matters Mr Johnson noted the request is for removal of the block garage only, not the barn or other buildings on the property No one in the audience cared to continent on the matter Mr Lieberman, seconded by Mr Johnson, moved approval of the demolition permit Motion passed unanimously Case No DR/02-24 Design review of sign package for 102-108 North Main St Karl Ranum, applicant 2 City of Stillwater Hentage Preservation Commission May 6, 2002 The applicant was not present Mr Johnson, seconded by Mr Tomten, moved to approve two projecting signs on the east elevation and two wall signs on the south, with the signage kept below the bnck and stone second story coursing Motion passed unanimously Case No DR/02-25 Design review of an extenor sign for Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 214 N Third St Robert Ayres representing the applicant Mr Ayres was present He said two existing signs would be removed The plans call for using some of the building matenals left over from construction The sign will be ground -lit, with the fight focusing on the sandstone portion of the sign Mr Johnson noted that free-standing signs in the CBD are limited to 30 square feet and cannot exceed 6' in height from grade Mr Ayers stated they tned to make the sign comparable in size to that of Tnmty Lutheran and St Michael's Catholic churches Mr Ayes noted the church will be requesting a setback vanance from the Planning Commission Mr Lieberman, seconded by Mr Peterson, moved approval as conditioned Motion passed unanimously Case No DR/02-26 Design review of Bradshaw addition on Curve Crest Boulevard and Highway 36 SALA Architects representing the applicant Jim Bradshaw and Kelly Davis of SALA were present Mr Davis stated plans are in the preliminary stage They were before the HPC at this point to see if there are any issues with materials Mr Davis provided a small scale model of the proposed building Mr Davis noted that Mr Bradshaw owns three other parcels in the area and would like to have some cohesiveness in matenals, colors, roofing etc , he stated this is an opportunity to provide a "first class statement for a gateway to Stillwater " Mr Johnson and Mr Lieberman noted that Mr Bradshaw is in a position, as owner of the properties, to require consistency between the parcels through covenants, noting that a precedent exists in the Target/Cub development which has strong covenants Ms Fitzgerald said the applicant could work with Mr Russell in developing a PUD for the property which incorporates suggested design guidelines Mr Lieberman commented the HPC would be supportive of consistency of design, not necessanly color After a bnef review of plans for Mr Bradshaw's building/grounds, Mr Lieberman closed the discussion by stating the HPC gives concept approval to Mr Bradshaw's plans and supports the his efforts for consistency of design between the parcels, with the applicant to work with Mr Russell on that matter Case No DR/02-27 Design review of an office/warehouse building at 1775 Industnal Blvd Elliot Chnstensen representing the applicant Mr Chnstensen and property owner, Joe Peltier, were present Mr Tomten asked the applicant if he was aware of the City's design guidelines for the Business Park Area, specifically that the proposed metal siding is not allowed and that there must be consistence on all sides of a building 3 City of Stillwater Hentage Preservation Commission May 6, 2002 in colors/materials/details Mr Peltier responded that there are numerous steel sided buildings in the area, it was noted that some buildings pre -date the guidelines Mr Lieberman said the HPC's charge is to be consistent in how the guidelines are applied Mr Lieberman asked members to consider the intent of the guidelines and whether the intent can be met by modifying Mr Peltier's proposal somehow Mr Tomten said the intent of the guidelines is to eliminate overscale structures and the mono use of matenals, noting that the applicant begins to do that in the front office building Mr Peltier noted the wainscoting is earned around on one of the sides, but he needs to construct a retaining wall between the properties making it impractical to do on the north side of the building Mr Johnson suggested carrying some of the lines of the front office to the warehouse structure to reduce the scale Mr Tomten did some sketches making use of different color panels on the warehouse portion and other detailing to reduce the scale of the building Mr Peltier said he liked Mr Tomten's suggestions, and the Mr Christensen said it would be possible to incorporate Mr Tomten's ideas Mr Lieberman moved approval as conditioned, stating that incorporating Mr Tomten's drawings the proposal meets the intent of the design guidelines, with the applicant to submit revised drawings to Ms Fitzgerald Mr Peltier asked about signage, saying he would like a small monument sign at the warehouse elevation the same as the office Regarding the condition relating to landscaping, Mr Peltier said the area is so sandy he was not sure what species would work It also was noted the location of the HVAC units was shown on Mr Peltier's revised plans Mr Johnson suggested amending the motion to indicate the applicants was to provide a landscaping plan and signage that conforms to the ordinance Mr Lieberman accepted that amendment to his motion Mr Johnson seconded the amended motion, motion passed unanimously Case No DR/02-28 Design review of extenor signage for Holiday Companies located at 2500 W Orleans St Duane Downey of Suburban Lighting representing the applicant The applicant was not present Mr Johnson moved to deny the request, approving the logo and name on the pylon sign only, with the logo on the canopy and storefront, no building sign, no backlighting of the canopy and that the lighting under the canopy remain unchanged Ms Diem seconded the motion, motion passed unanimously Case No V/SUP/DR/02-26 Design review of proposed Bed and Breakfast at 1306 Third St S Tim and Anita Kornwolf, applicants 4 City of Stillwater Hentage Preservation Commission May 6, 2002 Mr Kornwolf was present It was noted the issue of the distance from another Bed and Breakfast is going to the Planning Commission The home meets the square footage requirement of the ordinance for a four bedroom, eight person Bed and Breakfast Regarding signage, Mr Kornwolf said the proposal is for a 12x 18" sign with gold lettenng, he is unsure of the background color at this time Mr Lieberman moved to recommend approval as, from a design perspective, the request meets the Bed and Breakfast ordinance Mr Eastwood seconded the motion Motion passed 6-0-1, with Ms Hark abstaining Other business It was noted the annual Preservation Awards were to be presented at the May 7 City Council meeting Ms Fitzgerald stated she is asking the Council to issues RFPs for the next survey Mr Johnson stated he had met with Sandy Hudson and will continue working with her on the next phase of the work at Darla's Grill Ms Diem said the City Building Official has offered other options for the stairway at the former Mulberry Point Antiques building project Mr Johnson, seconded by Mr Eastwood, moved to adjourn at 10 15 p m Motion passed unanimously Respectfully submitted, Sharon Baker Recording Secretary 5 HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION APPLICATION REVIEW FORM CASE NO DR/02-29 Hentage Preservation Date June 3, 2002 Project Location 402 South Main Street Comprehensive Plan Distnct Central Business Distnct Zoning Distnct CBD Applicant's Name Steve Bremer Type of Application Design Review Project Descnption Design review of exterior signage for Buona Sera Ristorante & Wine Bar Discussion The applicant is requesting design approval for an Italian restaurant, Buona Sera Ristorante & Wine Bar The wooden 35" x 72" sign will be mounted above the entrance to the restaurant The wood use for the sign will be 2" thick solid redwood It will be sandblasted and carved with colored tipped lettering, pnmanly black Under the name of the business will be a green painted stnp with the words "An Italian Good Night" Two existing overhead "goose neck" amps will light the sign There will be approximately 6 — 7 tables outside the front windows, two of them will have tan umbrellas with no lettenng on them The outside seating was approved at the June 4, 2001 Heritage Preservation Commission meeting Recommendation Approval as conditioned Conditions of Approval 1 No additional signage 2 All revisions to the approved signage be reviewed and approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission 3 A Sign Permit shall be obtained at City Hall Findings The request meets the intent of the Downtown Design Guidelines Attachments Application Form/Elevation Drawing Case No DR(oL- Z.q Date Filed $ 24- - O Z Receipt No Fee: $25.00 DESIGN REVIEW APPLICATION FORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CITY OF STILLWATER 216 NORTH FOURTH STREET STILLWATER, MN 55082 The applicant is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of all forms and supporting material submitted in connection with any application Photos, sketches and a letter of intent is required All supporting material (i e photos, sketches, etc ) submitted with application becomes the property of the City of Stillwater Fourteen (14) copies of all supporting materials is required. All following information is required PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION Address of Project4O2- 5 VININ St Assessor's Parcel No Zoning District CSt) Description of Project in detail ‘qN c . "I hereby state the foregoing statements and all data, information and evidence submitted herewith in all respects, to the best of my knowledge and belief, to be true and correct; I further certify I will comply with the permit if it is granted and used" If representative is not property owner, then property owner's signature is required Property Owner4Mtv.' r r Representative ln\ -t CALL. MJI0I) Mailing Address 21S- WPt f:t SI-VA � S. Mailing Address 15 61 1751PCX0ArNS £J`J1"i City State Zip em.t. 'Q AIL. 41 1 O 7 City State Zip IilpptE CiR> SS311 Telephone No Le g) - V? 4 - 2) 31 q Telephone No Nits S7R- 53 30) H \mcnamara\sheda\2002\design review permit wpd Apnl 12, 2002 1 6 . a d SIGNAGE REQUEST FOR APPROVAL — City of Stillwater Date of request May 21st, 2002 Locatidn 402 South Main Street — Stillwater, MN Business Buona Sera Ristorante & Wine Bar Specifications 2" Thick Solid Redwood — Sandblasted/ Carved with colored Tipped lettenng — Oiled natural Finish Dimensions 35" tall x 72" wide x 2" thick — Facia mounted above entrance (Please note Size may fluctuate +/- 3" to fit area TBD) Lighting Overhead curved rustic lamps with standard lighting bulbs Creative contact Wayne Cullinan (Partner — Tarantella Corporation, LLC) MOMENTUM Concepts 7561 Blackoaks Lane N Maple Grove, MN 55311 612/578-8301 763/416-6278 (fax) wculhnan@cullinangroup com Ma 20 02 Al 0Ja RYAN COMPA4Y 7034241135 5 20 02 quote ttiU« GOD SIGN C OMPPANti 108WEST BROADWAY OSSEO MN 56369 phone, 763 424 7 887 fax/ 763 424 1135 To Wayne Cullinan From Tony Melton Company Momentum Re Buona Sera Stdlwater location Fax 763 416 6279 Phone 612 578 8301 Wayne Please feel free to call me with any questions or concerns regarding this quote Description Qty (1) Single sided Buona Sera Ristorante sign approximately 2 thick x 35 tall x 72 wide Sand carved, clear vertical grain, kiln dried cedar Artwork as prepared previously for Champlin location Designs are prepared and presented after acceptance of proposal Qty (1) sign Total S1 600 00 Installation and sales tax Included Disclaimer This estimate is based on our interpretation of information submitted to us For estimating purposes the above proposal and any accompanying drawings will take precedence over all previous communications Please verify this estimate reflects your intentions prior to placing your order Tt.rrits 1/2 down with order balance due on completion no retainage allowed. Production Our current production schedule is approximately tour weeks of acceptance of artwork. However we will make every effort to accommodate youi sihedule Pricing Subject to withdrawal or change 45 days from date of proposal Sales Tax Applicable state sales tax applies excludes local taxes Installatior Bid assumes uniform boil digging with power equipment posts sor into compacted soil Additional charges may incur for hand digging removal of hidden obstructions host rocks o other .inforeseen conditions Exclusions No dedu'tions for insurance bonding taxes etc allowed unless agreed to in writing prior to ha and of contract. Unless otherwise 4pecified pnce does lot include delivery installation or necessary permits acceptance ood Sig elton Szooli ate Momentum Wayne n Date THE FAST s )'at) CA ni "TURN TH 15 S f eN AR6vNi p wow L o Ge-azt' PLEASE A pvi Se. / A t-5o, A 5 Ig o , 1'C.L eg GLA p TO C I,E $y Sttvp ArPRe C.S �--� CJ o_ C) N 4 35" j H / 1 ( in/ i11(Nf {,c. cf / 1 1.11- r 75"- - / Zl 1 A, r HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION APPLICATION REVIEW FORM CASE NO DR/02-30 Hentage Preservation Date June 3, 2002 Project Location 102 South Second Street Comprehensive Plan Distnct Central Business District Zoning Distnct CBD Applicant's Name Mark S Balay Type of Application Design Review Project Descnption Design review of exterior sign package Discussion The applicant is proposing a sign package for the building on the southwest comer of Myrtle and Second Street (formerly the Gazette building) A Variance from the Planning Commission is required due to the proposed placement height on the wall The sign ordinance for the Central Business District states that "A wall sign may not project higher than the parapet line of the wall to which the sign is affixed or 15 feet as measured from the base of the building wall to which the sign is affixed, whichever is lower" The applicant is proposing to install four signs on the north side above the second story windows, all at the same elevation The elevation height from the ground vanes from the front of the building to the back of the budding, as the ground topography slopes down to the east Each sign on the north side will be 1'10" by 20' long The front building name sign that will be replacing the existing building name sign will be 1'2" (larger in the center) by 19' There will be a projecting six square foot sign on the west side of the building at the entrance to the Courier News All signs will be all be gold Iettenng on a black background None of the signs are lit Recommendation: Approval as condutioned Conditions of Approval 1 No additional signs 2 All revisions to the approved sign package shall be reviewed and approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission 3 A sign vanance shall be acquired for the wall signage Findings The request meets the intent of the Downtown Design Guidelines Attachments Application Form/Elevation Drawings Case No Date Filed Receipt No ?PJ"-S Fee: $25.00 DESIGN REVIEW APPLICATION FORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CITY OF STILLWATER 216 NORTH FOURTH STREET STILLWATER, MN 55082 The applicant is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of all forms and supporting material submitted in connection with any application Photos, sketches and a letter of intent is required All supporting material (i e photos, sketches, etc ) submitted with application becomes the property of the City of Stillwater Fourteen (14) copies of all supporting materials is required. All following information is required PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION Address of Project t o 2 S 5 �.•cdnDST Assessor's Parcel No L, Eft l& O 6D l 6 780 Zoning District Description of Project in detail I E-1✓ 5l 6 Fb 6Z BLt - one a g 5 T A n) D N o RT k Fft r: '7 hereby state the foregoing statements and all data, information and evidence submitted herewith in all respects, to the best of my knowledge and belief, to be true and correct I further certify I will comply with the permit if it is granted and used" If representative is not property owner, then property owner's signature is required Property Owner gu-rUek-i Lf {rU f Mailing Address 1Ocf �' %�I�,� f 1-e City State Zip Vr OC\ Sc5CS').., Telephone No (S I -y3b -q too uErf-) Representative i/A.Rk F M i J P 'a z22 Mailing Address j1 a r1 y&.TLE 5 r City State Zip 57eU-L4vArri2-7 M AL 5556S2 Telephone No to c(-4-3o 3 3! 2, H \mcnamara\sheila\2002\design review permit wpd Apnl 12 2002 HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION APPLICATION REVIEW FORM CASE NO DR/02-31 Hentage Preservation Date June 3, 2002 Project Location 114 Chestnut Street Comprehensive Plan Distnct Central Business Distract Zoning Distnct CBD Applicant's Name Amy C Nadeau and Renee K Flesner, co -owners of Amy's at Brunswick Type of Application Design Review Project Descnption Design review of exterior signage Discussion The applicant is requesting design review of an exterior sign for Amy's at Brunswick, formerly the Harvest Inn Initially, a sign was approved for Amy's along with the sign for the Brunswick Inn The owners of Amy's believe that since the Brunswick Inn and Amy's at Brunswick are two completely separate businesses, the signs should be somewhat different They are proposing a wooden sign with a Tight tan background The lettenng will consist of a gold -brown with a gray shadow The smaller letters (all lower case and italicized) will be black The sign will be installed between the first and second floor windows The length and the width of the sign will comply with the square footage permitted in the Central Business District Sign Ordinance The sign will not be lit Recommendation: Approval as conditioned Conditions of Approval 1 No additional signage 2 All revisions to the approved signage shall be reviewed and approved by the Hentage Preservation Commission Findings The request meets the intent of the Downtown Design Guidelines :Attachments Application Form/Letter/Elevation Drawing/Photo Case No • pg./ o:. - 31 Date Filed S.- Receipt No Fee: $25.00 DESIGN REVIEW APPLICATION FORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CITY OF STILLWATER 216 NORTH FOURTH STREET STILLWATER, MN 55082 The applicant is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of all forms and supporting material submitted in connection with any application Photos, sketches and a letter of intent is required All supporting material (i e photos, sketches, etc ) submitted with application becomes the property of the City of Stillwater Fourteen (14) copies of all supporting materials is required All following information is required PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION I14 Cuts'- r J't ty 1Address of Project - tllw s aa, Am)fJI3Assess ors Parcel No Z� 030 -LG - - Zoning District Description of Project in detail ,� (,�tZ ( eiaa fv- ,PY,� �1 boa (l rL( visit i cic C Q Y{ /2 4 f tty ,r/1 "I hereby state the foregoing statements and all data, information and evidence submitted herewith in all respects, to the best of my knowledge and belief, to be true and correct, I further certify I will comply with the permit if it is granted and used" If representative —is not property owner, then property owner's signature is required Property Owner/De (Q, \ e (' S Representative Mailing Address )1 4 (hes- his -- City State Zipall oc e),'(�(L,R �5 � Telephone No (9S )[) -g j i 1 Telephone No "Mir H \mcnamara\sheda\2002\design review permit wpd Mailing Address City State Zip Apnl 12, 2002 1\ Y , f-31 y 1r 2DA4 ktri (PC, cafe & pastry shop LETTER OF INTENT — WALL SIGN AMY'S AT BRUNSWICK, INC 114 Chestnut Street Stillwater MN 55082 651-439-8706 To Community Development Department City of Stillwater 216 North Fourth Street Stillwater MN 55082 We, the applicants (Amy C Nadeau and Renee K Flesner, co -owners of Amy's at Brunswick), are requesting design approval of a wall sign for the new cafe and pastry shop, Amy's at Brunswick, located m the Brunswick Inn (formerly the Harvest Inn) Regarding colors and fonts of the sign, a graphic is included — the sign mirrors the letterhead graphic above, and also includes a "frame" (see sign graphic) The main letters of the sign (upper and lower case) will be centered and colored a goldfish -brown with a gray-ish shadow The smaller letters (all lower case and italicized) will be black The sign will be attached to the front extenor wall of the Brunswick Inn, between the first and second floor windows The length and width of the wall sign will comply to the local sign ordinance regarding the amount of square footage allowed The sign will be composed of wood and will not be lit No additional outdoor signage is required Thank you for your time and consideration Renee K Flesner Manager Amy's at Brunswick TAA Sfifl, 4i a k. i HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION APPLICATION REVIEW FORM CASE NO DR/02-32 Hentage Preservation Date June 3, 2002 Project Location 221 Main Street North Comprehensive Plan Distnct Central Business District Zoning Distnct CBD Applicant's Name Dan Schulte representing Kagan Binder Attorneys Type of Application Design Review Project Descnption Design review of exterior signage Discussion The applicant is requesting design review and approval of an exterior sign for the above law firm The sign would be approximately 31/2 ' by 18' The background of the sign would be light yellow or manila with black text The location would be above the windows of their offices on the second floor on the Water Street side, it would not be lit The approved sign package (12/4/00) shows the location for the sign above the entry to the law office on the Water Street side of the building The Sign Ordinance has restnctions on placement of signs on building walls It states that in the CBD "a wall whichever is lower" The applicant has filed for a Vanance to this ordinance It will be reviewed at the June 10th Planning Commission meeting Conditions of Approval Should the Commission approve the request, staff suggests the following conditions of approval 1 All revisions to the approved signage be reviewed and approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission 2 No additional signage shall be allowed Recommendation: Denial - the request does not follow the approved sign package for the Maple Island Building y Findings The request does not meet the intent of the Downtown Design Guidelines or the Stillwater Sign Ordinance Attachments Application Form/Letter from Applicant/Elevation Drawings/Approved Sign Package for the Maple Island Building 9/2002 11 26 4308810 CITY OF STILLWATER PAGE 02 Case No: Date Filed: Receipt No.: Fee: $25.00 DESIGN REVIEW APPLICATION FORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CITY OF STILLWATER 216 NORTH FOURTH STREET STILLWATER, MN 55082 The applicant .s responsible for the completeness and accuracy of all forms and supporting material submitted in connection with any application. Photos, sketches and a letter of intent Is required. All supporting material (I.e photos, sketches, etc ) submitted with application becomes the property of the City of Stillwater. Fourteen (14) copies of all supporting materials Is required. All following information is i guired PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION Address of Project Maple Island Bldg J , n Si- . >v , Assessor's Parcel No Zoning District Description of Project in detail Exterior sign on east side of building, second floor "I hereby state the foregoing statements and all data, information and evidence submitted herewith In all respects, to the best of my knowledge and belief, to be true and correct. I further certify I will comply with the permit if rt is granted and used" If representative is �•-t prope o net', then property owner's signature is required Property OwOrro.trAm //' API"'- • • Representative e �i L L Mailing Add s 0 Mailing Address 2Zf friAiv ST- Al City State Zip - '%f' 33?'J 2 City State Zip S P u y 1 PI 51-0 Z Telephone No 6/- -48 Telephone No ce cr - .- 7 s= ' '11-4) H VnenamareAshala42002\design review permIt.wpd April 12, 2002 KAGAN BINDER, PLLC Suite 200 Maple Island Building 221 Main Street North Stillwater, Minnesota 55082 Phone 651 275 9806 Facsimile 651 351 2954 May 23, 2002 Community Development Department City of Stillwater 216 North Fourth Street Stillwater, MN 55082 Re Extenor Sign for Kagan Binder, PLLC Dear Members of the Hentage Preservation Commission (' Lb Daniel C Schulte dschulte@kaganbmder com We respectfully request consideration and approval of the attached proposal for an extenor sign for the law firm of Kagan Binder, PLLC, on the Maple Island Building at 221 Main Street, Stillwater, at the June 3, 2002, Heritage Preservation Commission meeting Our firm has been at this location in Stillwater since February 2001, practicing intellectual property law for local, national, and international clients We lease a total of about 6000 square feet on the second story of the Maple Island Building, making our firm a major tenant in the building About 3000 square feet of our space extends along almost the full length of the second floor on the Main Street side of the building The other 3000 square feet occupies a substantial portion of the second floor on the nver side of the building We employ fifteen people, including seven attorneys, three law clerks, two paralegals, and three support staff The sign we request approval for will proudly notify the public of our new location on the second story of the Maple Island Building It will be approximately three and one-half feet tall, and we expect it to be no more than eighteen feet wide, with a light yellow or manila background and black contrasting text The design and location are shown in the attached documents The location above the second story windows will indicate our offices are on the second floor of the building Enclosed is a check in the amount of $25 00 Also enclosed are fourteen copies of the Design Review Application Form and sketch of the east side of Maple Island Building indicating the location of the desired sign This proposal is being submitted by the deadline of May 24, 2002, for the June 3rd meeting We respectfully request consideration and approval of this proposal Sincerely, 1 Dan Schulte Kagan Binder, PLLC Suite 200 Maple Island Building Stillwater Minnesota 651-275-9806 • TOP OF CMU 128 8 • SECONC FLOOR ' 114 2 WOW HEAD 110 0 Q. 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III m❑mmIII Y t it iTl SOUTH ELEVATION 1 I- 975 1 i I0 0 MARKET ' MERRIL LYNCH ' BOOKSELLER MAPLE ISLAND BUILDING REVISIGNAGE assSED D1(-- od - 3"-- STEFAN MAINSTREAM DEVELOPMENT PNEHIP 1r y P H P C APPLICATION REVIEW FORM CASE NO DR/02-33 Hentage Preservation Date June 3, 2002 Project Location Curve Crest Blvd and 62nd St Comprehensive Plan Distnct Campus Research and Development District Zoning Distnct CRD Applicant's Name MSP Development Co , LLC Type of Application Design Review Project Descnption Design review of an office and professional building Discussion The applicant is requesting design approval for a 28,572 square foot office building and a 7700 future office building Exterior building materials consist of face brick, reddish in color, EIFS spandrel units, coordinated with the brick material The buildings will have a stone base that will be anchor block textured stone The windows will be aluminum framed with light bronze anodizes with 1" insulation glazing The applicant states that the building is designed with a partial sloped roof on all sides, the center section being flat The rooftop equipment is located in this area The ridge of the sloped roof will be approximately 6'6" above the flat roof area, so all equipment will be screened from normal view Parking requirements are one space per each 300 square feet of floor area A total of 120 parking spaces are required, 116 spaces are provided for the first phase There will be two entrance/exit dnves, both located on Curve Crest Blvd A site lighting plan will be prepared at a later date A Landscape Plan is provided in the packet The CRD District requires a minimum 30% of landscaped open space A sign package will be submitted at the meeting when final approval is given to the project At the time of writing this report, only the location of the sign is drawn on the Site Plan Conditions of Approval 1 Final design review and approval shall be given by the Heritage Preservation Commission at a later date 2 All utilities shall be completely screened from public view 3 A lighting plan showing the fixture type, height, location and exterior lighting intensity shall be submitted with building permit plans for Planning Director approval All lighting shall be directed away from the street and adjacent properties Light sources shall be shielded from direct view and protected form damage by vehicles i I 4 All landscaping shall be installed before utility release or final project inspection No project shall be phased unless the Planning Commission grants approval 5 Continuous concrete curbing shall be installed to separate parking areas from landscape areas 6 Handicapped parking spaces and signage, in compliance with State requirements, shall be shown on building permit plans and installed before final inspection of the project 7 The street address of the building shall be displayed in a location conspicuous from the public street 8 The trash enclosure shall be made of a sturdy opaque masonry material, with trash receptacles screened from view and compatible with the color and materials of the project 9 Fencing, as indicated on the plans, shall protect all trees required to remain on site, or other necessary measures shall be taken to prevent damage during construction activity 9 No roof equipment shall be visible to the general public 10 All gutters, downspouts, flashings, etc shall be painted to match the color of the adjacent surface 11 Construction projects shall conform to the City's Noise ordinance Construction during the dry season shall mitigate excess dust problems 12 Grading and drainage plan to be approved by City Engineer before building permits are issued 13 Sign package to be approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission, including directional signs 14 Exterior lighting plan to be reviewed and approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission 15 All secunty lights on building shall be downlit 16 A sign permit is required for signage 17 All exterior modifications to the approved plan are to be reviewed by Community Development Director Recommendation Conceptual approval Findings The request meets the intent of the West Business Park Design Guidelines Attachments Application form, Memo from applicant and construction documents MAY 21'2002 09 42 952 897 7740 NMI e .E /2ee2 13 64 4389E GENESIS ARCHITECTURE #2190 P 002/007 CITY OF STILLWAT1_ PAGE 02 can No6o`Pl n?-3 / PLANNING ADMINISTRATION APPLICATION FORM oats Flied Pee Paid Receipt No COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CITY OP STILLWATER 210 NORTH FOURTH STREET STiLLWATER, MN 55082 ACTION REQUESTED Special/Conditional Use Permit Variance _Resubdivislort Subdivision' FEES $50/200 $70/200 $100 $100+50/Iot _„Comprehensive Plan Amendment $800 _-_Zoning Amendment' $300 Planning unit Development " $500 Certificate of Compliance $ 70 'An escrow fee Is also requlrod to offset the costs of attorney and engineering fees. The applicant Is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of all forams end supporting material submitted In connection with any application. All supporting material (l e, p submitted with application becomes the property of the Clty of Stillwater 8 supporting material is required if application is submitted to the Clty Como • • - of supporting material Is required A site plan is required with applications Any Incomplete application or supporting material will delay the application process. PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION Bradshaw Address of Project Lot 1, Block 2,Addition Zoning pima P II D Desc riptton of project Two Story, and Professional Building Assessor's Parcel No Class A Office {Oi=O fie) "I hereby state the foregoing statements and all data, Information and evidence submitted herewith in all respects, to the best of my knowledge and belief, to be true and correct I further certify 1 will comply with the Pennit lift la granted and used " Property Owner MSP Develcomp1'] Sdt, . LLC * Representative Mailing Address 401 North Robert Street 9 Mailin Address City _Zlp S� Paul, MN 55101 City -State - Zip Telephone No SIgnafu (651) 665-5583 (Sign It's Pr Lot Size (d menslons) _ x irregular Lend Areat...,_L15.646 Height of Buildings Stories Prtndpal Accessory NA Feet _32— Telephone No Signature (Signature Is required) SITE AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION Total Building floor area 28 , 572 square feet ExfsOng NA square feet Proposed square feet Paved Impervious Area ,65 square feet (Thousand Ft No of oft street perking spmrces 121 N.'Mnammw IMPWVAPP FRM Am112 2002 * Contract Purchaser — letter from Sellers submitted separately ( . . a amwa w�eSW .m we�ya Cants TMr..e raa u e.aro rr.nne wves.ew w.u,aa Cates, m Wen,.cwy w.ns Office o �.6.611 M►A1-28-2002 TUE 01 53 FM WELSH CONSTRUCTION LLC FAX NO 9529889056 F 02 E'AP4 $ 1 CTURa A W i311 COMPAYV May 28, 2002 Ms Susan Fitzgerald City Planner City of Stillwater 216 N 4th Street Stillwater, MN 55082 Re Office/Medical Building Curve Crest Boulevard Bradshaw Addition Dear Ms Fitzgerald, On Friday, May 24, we submitted our preliminary design documents for the above project Mr Mike Schraad, Welsh Construction, stated that we were missing three items that are required to finalize our submission The following are my comments that apply to the remaining issues A Mechanical Equipment Screening The building is designed with a partial sloped roof on all sides, the center section being flat The roof -top equipment is located in this area The ridge of the sloped roof will be approx 6'-6" above the flat roof area, so all equipment will be screened From normal view B Site Signage I've had numerous conversations with the site planner, Coen + Partners, Mr Kelly Davis, SALA Arch , and Mr Steve Russell, City of Stillwater, concerning the signage The general consensus is that the entire development will have a uniform signage program Our signage will conform to is program, unfortunately, the signage is yet to be designed C Site Lighting The same situation holds true for the site lighting as the signage A standard fixture type, color, and height will be selected and used through out the entire development Each site will have to comply with the city's desrgn requirements At this time, I can't provide you with detailed lighting information I trust that this information, incomplete as it is, will help in our submittal process and fill in the blanks If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me, my direct number is 952 897 7870 7e07 Cre badge (trlc Mrnnuyoile MN 55139 2609 Tce 9528377$74 }nx 952 8977740 www vurrtirrrc lr to rr MAY-28-2002 TUE 01 54 PM WELSH CONSTRUCTION PLC FAX NO 9529889056 P 03 'ncerely, ynn D 'oat AIA .e-Pr Genesis Architecture HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION APPLICATION REVIEW FORM CASE NO DR/02-34 Hentage Preservation Date June 3, 2002 Project Location 112 North Main Street Comprehensive Plan Distnct Central Business District Zoning Distnct CBD Applicant's Name Jessica Junker and Chris Wallace Type of Application Design Review Project Descnption Design review of exterior signage, canopy, tnm and seating for the St Croix Saloon Discussion The applicants are requesting design review of an exterior sign, a canopy, trim color change and seating for the St Croix Saloon, formerly Cutter's Pub and Grub They are proposing to repaint the existing sign, keeping it the same dimensions It would consist of a white background with black Iettenng The existing lights around the sign will remain, they will not flash and will be low voltage white bulbs A black canopy is proposed for over the first floor windows, there will be no Iettenng on the canopy The building has black and green tnm around the windows and doors, the applicants are proposing to paint all the trim black They are also requesting design approval of two tables outside the front windows This request will also have to go to the Planning Commission for a Special Use Permit Recommendation: Approval as conditioned Conditions of Approval 1 No additional signage 2 All revisions to the approved signage shall be reviewed and approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission 3 The awning shall not be lit from inside 4 Structural elements of the awning shall be at least eight feet above the sidewalk 5 Fixed awnings should have a minimum one by one pitch 6 Traditional straight lined, fixed or retractable -pitched awning should be used, no rounded awnings Findings The request meets the intent of the Downtown Design Guidelines Attachments Application Form/Letter/Elevation Drawing 1 Case Noz- 3�- Date Filed ZS -oZ Receipt No Fee: $25.00 DESIGN REVIEW APPLICATION FORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CITY OF STILLWATER 216 NORTH FOURTH STREET STILLWATER, MN 55082 The applicant is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of all forms and supporting material submitted in connection with any application Photos, sketches and a letter of intent is required All supporting material (i e photos, sketches, etc ) submitted with application becomes the property of the City of Stillwater Fourteen (14) copies of all supporting materials is required. All following information is required PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION Address of Project //a ,t) "17/4,'.� Assessor's Parcel No Zoning District C.,$D Description of Project in detail D r s.y ✓ A rn1/4. / o,' "I hereby state the foregoing statements and all data, information and evidence submitted herewith in all respects, to the best of my knowledge and belief, to be true and correct I further certify I will comply with the permit if it is granted and used" If representative is not property owner, then property owner's signature is required dkr,s Property Owner -SCE KS6t /Cer- Representative , j. $S,c/9 3tte-) /tee./' Mailing Address 4/ - Wt% ekci'd ,/(.sN1 Mailing Address //a Ai/49 iJ ;4 City State Zip /4,1 -f6e, `SZ2' City State Zip . - ://u'4,4,r-, /at. �2K Telephone No (p C/-01/(- )303 Telephone No 6i (h9 H \mcnamara\sheila\2002\design review permit wpd Apnl 12, 2002 Wednesday, May 29, 2002 Susan Fitzgerald Stillwater City Planner Dear Sue, Thank you for meeting with Jessica and myself on the subject of Cutter's Pub & Grub Jessica and I would like approval to cover the existing sign on the face of the building We do not want to change the size of the sign just the contents The new sign outside we would like to read "The St Croix Saloon" in black back ground and white letters We would also like to get approved black awnings on each side of the front door Please contact us at 612-812-8190 for Chns or 612-669-7917 for Jessica if you have any questions or concerns Thank you, Jessica Junker Chris Wallace 414 ( 4 G 3115--1 P0Box 791 STILLWATER MN 55082 (651) 351-0172 FAx (651) 430-2051 Lmpson Axchives Ma 22, 2002 To Sue & The H P C members This is pretty much the final draft of the narrative for the W Y2 of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter s Addition I have included copies of the illustrations I have so far I hope to add a few more before handing the completed work in to MHS This was a difficult survey for all the reasons I listed before, as well as the fact there are 146 houses in this area, almost all of them old and therefore requiring research My editor has been busy with her own work, so this draft has not had an edit which I am sure it could use I will be at your June meeting to hear any comments or suggestions you might have Sue can you put me on the agenda for the June meeting? Could you also save the originals and give them to me at the meeting I can use them for editing Thanks Oh, I also need a map of the survey area from the city The boundaries are Holcombe on the west, S Fourth St on the east, Willard on the north, and Hancock on the south Could you have Ryan print out a nice one, please? Thanks as always C S � cP0S S ` - _ z (= - for ' CL Nes \S v5oM Co 0 t-IG l_. Donald Empson Kathleen Vadnais THE WEST HALF OF THE CHURCHILL, NELSON & SLAUGHTER ADDITION RESIDENTIAL AREA, STILLWATER, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA Winter/Spring, 2002 National Register Identification and Evaluation Study Submitted to The City of Stillwater Heritage Preservation Committee Prepared by Donald Empson Empson Archives P 0 Box 791 Stillwater, MN 55082 July, 2002 a The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND SUPPORT AND NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY This project has been financed in part with Federal funds from the National Park Service, Department of Interior, through the Minnesota Historical Society under provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act as amended However the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department of the Interior Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the U S Department of Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, or handicap in its federally assisted program If you believe you have been discriminated against in any program activity, or facility as described above or if you desire further information, please write to Office of Equal Opportunity, U S Department of the Interior, Washington, D C , 20240 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addttton ABSTRACT ne hundred and forty -six properties within an area of forty acres were surveyed for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places These properties are located in Stillwater, Washington County, Minnesota in an area designated as the West One Half of Churchill Nelson & Slaughter's Addition to Stillwater HPPA The complete papers generated by this survey will be deposited with the City of Stillwater, and the Minnesota Historical Society 3 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition INTRODUCTION Between December 1, 2001, and June 1, 2002, Empson Archives conducted a National Register survey of the West One Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter s Addition HPPA residential area of Stillwater, Washington County, Minnesota The project area was the NE 1/4 of Section 33, Township 30 N, Range 20 W Included within the survey is the West One Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition to Stillwater The objective of the study s as to conduct an intensive historical survey of the West One Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition to Stillwater residential neighborhood bounded by, or on a line with, South Holcombe Street on the West, South Fourth Street on the East, West Hancock Street on the South, and West Willard Street on the North There are 146 structures within this sun ev area covering 40 acres The work was conducted between December 1st, 2001 and June 1st, 2002 by Donald Empson, the principal investigator, and his wife, Kathleen Vadnais Donald Empson, the principal investigator, meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards The property types in this survey included dwellings, associated garages and carriage houses, outbuildings, objects and structures, and businesses These properties were located, photographed and their physical descriptions documented The project team compiled building files on each inventoried site for the City of Stillwater's Heritage Preservation Commission A project report was prepared for the City of Stillwater and for the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office The format of the final report is determined by regulations of the Minnesota Historical Society Properties within the Holcombe's Additions residential area were evaluated for preliminary National Register significance in terms of one appropriate statewide historic contexts "St Croix Valley Triangle Lumbering (1843- 1914) " The project team consulted the Stillwater historic context study (Vogel 1993) in evaluating local significance and determined the appropriate context was "Development of Residential Neighborhoods in Stillwater, 1850's-1940's " This effort is part of the on -going program of the Minnesota Historical Society's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), which began after passage of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended The SHPO 4 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition administers the National Register of Historic Places program in !Minnesota In the early years of this program, the SHPO concentrated on basic inventories of the 87 counties in Minnesota on a county -by -county basis Stillwater established a Heritage Preservation Commission in 1973 and, in conjunction with a federal grant from the Minnesota SHPO, contracted for is first National Register survey of the downtown commercial area in 1988 This study led to the placing of Stillwater's downtown commercial area on the National Register m 1991 In 1992 3, the Stillwater Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) received a Certified Local Government (CLG) grant and sponsored a study of historic contexts in the city, conducted by Robert C Vogel and Associates The final report, ` Stillwater Historic Contexts A Comprehensive Planning Approach," was completed in July 1993 The Stillwater HPC has divided the city's neighborhoods into Historic Preserr ation Planning Areas (HPPAs) and intends to proceed with systematic surveys of all Stillwater neighborhoods over the next decade The current report summarizes the results of the fourth HPPA to be systemically surveyed The seven previous surveys were of the North Hill (Original Town) the South Hill (Original Town), the Greeley Residential Area, the Dutchtown Residential Area, the Holcombe's Additions Residential Area, the Hersey, Staples Addition, and the South One Half of the Carh Schulenburg Addition The Stillwater Heritage Preservation Commission has indicated that it will make this survey history available to the residents of the area 5 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition RESEARCH DESIGN he project area was the NE % of Section 33, Township 30 N, Range _s 20 W Included within the survey area is Churchill, Nelson, & Slaughter s Addition to Stillwater We have done a thorough study of the area, despite the considerable time and money constraints We have used the yearly tax assessor's records collected in the State Archives and available on microfilm, 1861 1900, at the Stillwater Public Library a gift of Rivertown Restoration These records were generated much the same way they are today Every year the tax assessor viewed all the properties in the city and made an estimate of the market value of the land and the improvements By following a property through the years, it is usually possible to determine when the % alue jumped from that of a lot only to that of a lot with a building on it This record also contains the name of the property owner through the years While this kind of research is tedious in the extreme, it ga' a us accurate information that can be found m no other way (Two previous surveys have used the date of the building found on the assessment card at the tax assessor's office Before the turn of the century, these dates are notoriously inaccurate, an admission readily made by the tax assessor's office itself ) Rivertown Restoration recently paid to have the Stillwater building permit applications, 1886 1940, microfilmed They, along with an index compiled by Kay Thueson, are available at the Stillwater Public Library The applications give the date of building, the size of the structure, name of the owner, sometimes the name of the builder and architect, and other incidental information There are also applications for repairs and remodeling This information was invaluable and essential for this study There are useful records available in the Water Department, the Fire Department, and the Public Works Department and m the Minutes of the Stillwater City Council that have never been used before The Sanborn Insurance Maps did not illustrate the residential area, but they were useful in following the history of the some of the businesses There are a number of unpublished manuscripts and some published reminiscences which contained useful information, but since they are often inaccurate, we only quoted them when we could verify their information from another source In general, we used only original sources for our research 6 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson 8. Slaughter's Addition For visual aids, there are two Bird's Eye View Maps of Stillwater drawn in 1869, and again in 1879 With their accurate representations of each house and building, these were extremely useful, and we reproduced sections of both maps in the text of this report We talked to the residents of the area in cases where we had some uncertainties, when convenient we obtained copies of Property Abstracts We also used the land records at the office of the Recorder of Deeds We also used the Stillwater City Directories, consulted the local newspapers on microfilm at the Stillwater Public Library, and pursued other research materials that were useful We incorporated the information gleaned from our research in the context of Robert Vogel's Stillwater Historic Contexts and other research done previously m Stillwater We reviewed the survey work on the properties prepared by the Stillwater Heritage Preservation Commission We identified, dated, and cataloged the 146 properties m the Preservation Planning Area in the manner required by the Minnesota Historical Society We discussed the architectural styles in the Preservation Planning Area and compared them to other Stillwater neighborhoods We photographed all properties We have prepared a report that describes the development of the area, recommendations for future survey work, and evaluated the possibility of properties that aught be eligible for local historic designation and/or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places We are not making any nominations ourselves We have discussed any possible planning methods for preservation of historic structures, landscapes, and neighborhoods We have attended three meetings with the Stillwater H P C The work was conducted between December lst, 2001 and June 1d, 2002 by Donald Empson, the principal investigator and his wife, Kathleen Vadnais 7 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition THE THIRD STREET HILL A small news item appeared in the Stillwater Republican newspaper on November 2, 1869 Closing the Gap 'The Third street grade is rapidly approaching completion The gap between the two sides of the fill is steadily being closed, and a week or two of the kind of weather u'e have been having during the past few days will enable the workmen to complete the job Gou [Mayor] Holcombe promises, however, if the weather does not permit finishing the work, that he will cause a temporary bridge to be made, spanning the gap, for the convenience of the scholars this winter, who reside in the northern portion of the city " The S Third Street hill between Chestnut and Willard Streets was a massive pubhc works project that included the filling of a major ravine and grading down through the bluff For most of the 1860's, the city fathers planned and schemed to find the wherewithal to breach the bluff In 1867, construction began on the new Washington County Courthouse at the top of the hill, and plans were laid for a new Central high school —the largest in Stillwater—kitt3 corner from the new Courthouse (PLC from corner of 1870 BEV) Operung a street between the hilltop and downtown became imperative Previous to 1870, the South Hill, or Nelson's field' as it was then known, was accessible only by the Main Street steps rising to S Broadway, or by a winding path snaking down a ravine (named Nelson's Hollow)2 which spilled east into Nelson Street and Nelson's Alley 3 Unfortunately the men most involved in this development of what we know today as the South Hill were m their graves 1 Michael Kinsella obituary in the Stillwater Gazette December 25 1878 His store at Willard and Fifth Streets was in "what is known as Nelson's Field." 2 The Stillwater Republican July 21, 1868 3 Emma Glasser How Stillwater Came to Be " in Minnesota History 24 195 206 (September, 1943) 8 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addttton Socrates Nelson was born in Conway, (Franklin County) Massachusetts, January 11, 1814 As a young man, he attended Deerfield Academy before becoming a merchant in Conway At the age of 25, he wondered west to Illinois prospecting and buying furs By 1840, he was m the rapidly growing city of St Louis, Missouri where he took up with his future business partner, Levi Churchill Four years later, Nelson took a wife Bertha Bartlett, a widow from Conway who had come to Illinois after the death of her husband Upon his marriage, in 1844, Nelson took his wife and some mercantile goods upon a steamboat north on the Mississippi River to the northwestern frontier a St Croix River landing with a newly erected sawmill There, at a place called Stillwater, he built himself a house and store near what today would be approximately the intersection of Nelson Street and South Main Street 4 Socrates Nelson's partner, Levi Churchill, was also a Yankee, born on September 16, 1813 in Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont He married Ehzabeth Marion Proctor on Oct 2, 1844 in Proctorsville, Vermont They must hal, e moved to St Lotus shortly after the wedding 6 In the outpost settlement of Stillwater, Socrates Nelson (Nelson's Warehouse) collected furs, and sold merchandise The fuss were slupped downriver to St Lotus where Levi Churchill sold the furs, and used the money to buy merchandise to ship upriver to Nelson Socrates also acted as a transfer agent on the Stillwater levee, receiving packages and other goods headed further up river and inland and arranged to ship them to their ultimate destination But it was obvious to the residents of the frontier Territory that the future lay not in furs and trading, but in land and town sites As one of the first residents of the location, Socrates and Betsey Nelson, and their St Louis partners, Levi and Ehzabeth Churchill, spht the waterfront territory of Stillwater with two other pioneer settlers Joseph R Brown took the northern part of the waterfront, between what would be today the site of the old Prison and Brown's Creek John McKusick bought out his sawmill partners, and claimed the area between the old Prison site and what is today Nelson's Alley Nelson & Churchill's claim extended one-half mile south of 4 Fifty Years in the Northwest by W H C Folsom Pioneer Press Company 1888 Page 59 59 History of Washington County North Star Publishing Company Minneapolis 1881 Page 590 There seems to be some question about the notion that he was at Nelson s Landing on the Mississippi River 6 This information comes from two Internet genealogy sites LDS Family Search and www ancestry com 9 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Nelson's Alley All three claims extended three-quarters of a mile west from the river As one local historian put it "In 1845, a verbal agreement was made with regard to land claims, by which [Joseph R ] Brown's claim was recognized as extending along the lake shore north of Battle Hollow, where the Minnesota state prison now stands South of Battle Hollow, along the lake shore to Nelson, extending three -fourths of a mile west, was the claim of the mill company, originally held by Fisher [This claim was purchased by John McKusick ] South of Nelson s alley, one-half mile down the lake, three -fourths of a mile west, was S Nelson's claim "6 This original claim, supplemented by subsequent purchases, made Socrates and Betsey Nelson, and Levi and Ehzabeth Churchill, owners of much of what is today known as the South Hill One of the first purchases Churchill and Nelson made at the new land office when it opened in St Croix Falls in 1849 was the NE 1/4 of Section 33, one -hundred and sixty acres between what is today W Orleans and W Willard Streets, between S Holcombe Street and Sixth Avenue S 7 Churchill was apparently the partner more active in land speculation, in 1845, he was one of se\ eral proprietors of the town of Fillmore in Andrew County, Missouri 8 But land was not the exclusive focus of Churchill & Nelson Socrates Nelson was involved in a number of commercial ventures in the fledging city of Stillwater He was the first merchant trading in furs, hardware, household goods and lumber He was a developer of Baytown Townslup, and along with others, built a steam sawmill on the riverfront of what is today Bayport He was active m pubhc life, serving as territorial auditor from 1853 to 1857, and as a state senator Of his personal nature, one historian remembered him as "He was of a free and generous disposition in all his relations of li fe " 9 6 Fifty Years in the Northwest by W H C Folsom Pioneer Press Company 1888 Pages 40 41 7 Land certificates #30 31 2 Deeds 612 613 8 The Missouri Historical Review Volume X April 1916 Number 3 Page 197 9 9 Fifty Years in the Northwest by W H C Folsom Pioneer Press Company 1888 Pages 58 59 10 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughte,'s Addition laanS sumii0 M NE 1/ of Section 33 T3ON,R2OW S Holcombe Street 203UUS 310001.101-1 M 40 Acres Survey Area S Fourth Street Nb Sixth Avenue S West 1/2 of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition pans PJl 1!!M M 11 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson &. Slaughter's Addition THE FEVER On the western frontier of the United States, the 1850's were boom years, and optimism was at an all time peak The eastern part of Minnesota, and its cities, including Stillwater, were growing rapidly, and the one thing every newcomer needed was land land to farm, land to live on, land for commercial enterprise The businessmen of Stillwater were well aware of this demand, and many of them bought tracts of land to develop into building lots Sully ater began with a sawmill in 1844 Five years later, when Minnesota became a Territory, the population was estimated at 60910 A year later the population had jumped to 1,052 Most of the residents hved in what is the downtown area today But boom times lay ahead Thousands of immigrants were pouring into the Territory, and the price of land was rising rapidly Through the early 1850's, the price of land doubled, and doubled again The Territory was struck with the fever of' land speculation With the continuing influx of newcomers, all of whom needed a place to live, how could the price of land not continue to rise — or so the speculator reasoned By 1854, the speculation in land prices vas Just beginning in earnest, peaking in the year 1857, when it is estimated that in Minnesota, at least 700 towns were platted into more than 300,000 building lots — enough for 1,500,000 people 11 Stillwater did not escape the speculation fever The St Croix Union newspaper was delighted to point out that "About two years ago, Hersey, Staples & Co gave $600 for a lot [which] last week sold for $3000 to Mr Dodge We add that when Hersey Staples & Co made the aforesaid purchase, many thought they had given a very high price but time will prove that the lot will increase as rapidly in value, in the next two years, as it has done in the two just passed Mr Dodge has already been offered $500 advance on what he gave Our faith in Stillwater is unbounded "12 loTheodore C Blegen Minnesota A History of the State U of Minnesota Press 1963 Page 159 11W111%am Watts Folwell A History of Minnesota St Paul The Minnesota Historical Society 1956 Vol 1 page 362 12 St Croix Union August 6 1856 12 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition On another occasion, the editor struck back at any who might doubt the future "Less than two years ago they sneered at Stillwater's being anything outside the Basin, or Original Limits [of downtown] We well recollect that we were laughed at, by some, for pitching our tent out in Holcombes Addition —it being then a wild unbroken wilderness But what are now the facts? There are over 100 houses out there now —some of them first class —and about 600 inhabitants Lots which, when we located there [two years ago] could be had for $25 cannot now be purchased for less than a hundred dollars —and they are constantly rising Lots have been enhanced in value four fold within the past two years, and the way we read the signs of the times, they lack much of having reached their maximum 13 MORE ADDITIONS Anticipating quick profits in the land, Stillwater entrepreneurs did what others throughout the settled portions of 1\Lmnesota Territory were doing they platted more Additions The trick a as, they reasoned, to buy the land by the acre and sell it by the -foot "STILLWATER FOREVER Another Addition to Stillwater Additions to Stillwater are all the rage now Within a few days past, Jacob Maerty has sold to Joshua B Carter and Gov Ramsey, 140 acres of land lying west of Stillwater and adjoining Holcombe's Addition, for $7000 It is soon to be surveyed into town lots We rejoice to see this movement There are now three heavy St Paul capitalists and speculators deeply interested in Stillwater, viz R F Slaughter, Col H M'Kenty, and Gov Ramsey We are glad to know that St Paul speculators are vitally interested here, because it argues that they now see what we saw nearly three years ago, that is, that Stillwater is destined inevitably to be a great place They now see that Stillwater is not a 'one horse town, chucked down among the hills in the sand ' They now see that Stillwater has 13 St Croix Union December 5 1856 13 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition unrivaled advantages -that she has much capital -that a Rail - Road is to come here probably before one runs to St Paul, and that Stillwater is rapidly advancing in all that contributes to material prosperity and greatness '14 HURRAH FOR STILLWATER" In January of 1857, just as the land speculation was reaching its height, Churchill and Nelson began to act On January 12, they deeded an undivided one-half of the NE A of Section 33 (40 acres) to Robert F Slaughter of St Paul for $5,000 00 15 Slaughter, who was involved in several other Additions in Stillwater, was a consummate real estate salesman, his specialty was selling local lots to out of state speculators 16 The following May, Slaughter sold one half of his portion to Hilary B Hancock of the town of Minneapolis Hancock paid $2,500 for his 20 acres 17 On June 15, 1857, the four men and their wives Levi and Elizabeth Churchill, Socrates and Betsey Nelson, Robert and Nancy Slaughter, and Hilary B Hancock platted Churchill, Nelson, & Slaughter's Addition to Stillwater But their timing was very bad As late as February, 1857, the future looked bright 18 "Real Estate and Business in Stillwater The price of land in our city and vicinity has advanced with astonishing rapidity during the last two years, and from present appearances we shall see still greater improvements in the future During the week past Mr H R Murdock purchased ten acres of land adjoining Cooper's Addition, from Mr Slaughter, for $100 per acre Two years ago this same land was sold for five dollars per acre 14St Croix Union, December 12 1856 16 H Deeds 75 16 There is more on Slaughter in this author's book A History of the Greeley Residential Area Slaughter may have lived in Stillwater for awhile, there were a couple of hens filed against him for houses he built 17 H Deeds 422 18 A Plats 129 14 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Three thousand seven hundred dollars have been recently offered by Mr Gorgas, the banker, for a lot on Main street, corner of Chestnut-25 -feet front and 80 -feet deep —and refused The owners —the Messrs Murdock, Druggists —intend to build a splendid stone building on it in the spring Thts is at the rate of about $150 a front -foot, and be it remembered that the whole lot, of which this is only a part, a little over a year ago, sold for $10 a front -foot This, to say the least, is a very fair advance There are yet many splendid investments and fortunes to be made in this city —it hich is, as yet, in its infancy —and every day presents new evidences of its future greatness On every side preparations are being made for the erection of capacious ware houses, substantial —and in some instances —fine private dwellings, and every thing promises a season of unprecedented prosperity "19 The four partners must have had visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads With close to 500 lots for sale in this Addition alone, their future was assured THE CRASH On the 24th of August, 1857, the Oluo Life Insurance and Trust Company of New York failed, its creditors were forced to default, and a calamitous chain of eN ents spread across the United States Within two months, almost everybody m Minnesota was in debt, the Minnesota Territory was literally emptied of cash City lots became virtually worthless Those who were formerly wealthy found themselves bankrupt Stillwater boosters were m despair, and the city was never to fully recover its boundless optimism after this Depression of 1857 Writing of St Paul, Thomas Newson described what was also true of Stillwater "And then came the terribly hard times With no money, no values, no property, no business, little or no emigration, no banks, or banks with empty vaults, no courage, no hope, notes due, mortgages foreclosed, men heavily in debt, land depreciated from fifty to seventy-five per cent, no trade, indeed with nothing 19 St Croix Union February 13 1857 15 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition to trade, no foundation to build on, no one can imagine the frightful condition of affairs in St Paul in the latter part of the year 1857 but he who passed through it all "20 The Stillwater Democrat, on January 1, 1859, editorialized "A Happy New Year to our Friends and Patrons Eighteen hundred and fifty eight, with its panics and monetary convulsions, its depression of trade and depreciation in value of all and every kind of purchaseable and ponderable goods and estates, has, thank goodness, departed for ever " The population of Stillwater had declined, and all plans for the future were put on hold A couple of the local banks, not bemg able to obtain cash, printed their own bank notes, and Washington County was forced to issue its own scrip payable against tax dollars that were difficult, if not impossible, to collect In 1857, before the crash, Churchill & Nelson managed to sell only a couple of lots in Block 10 But as the economy collapsed, and the real estate market withered, Nelson, as the partner resident m Stillwater, realized that the sale of his lots would ultimately depend upon better access to the top of the south hull To prmote his property, Nelson did what many other land developers and speculators did m the nineteenth (and twentieth) centuries they donated some of their lots for a public development, in this case, they donated a whole block for the building of a new Washington County Courthouse on Pme and S Third Streets This was not an act of altruistic generosity on the part of the partners, they knew the building of a Courthouse would make their own lots surrounding the courthouse much more valuable Not only would the sale of their lots benefit from businesses and workers wishing to live near the Courthouse, the developers would also benefit because the city would finally be forced to provide easy and quick access up the bluff to the courthouse As Churchill & Nelson anticipated, the building of the new Courthouse served as the impetus for other deN, elopment A new, large, and very grand public school, Central School, was constructed kitty-corner from the Courthouse, and across S Third Street, Father Michael Murphy paid the astronomical sum of $4,000 00 in 1871 for three of the best lots in the city which he used to build the new St Michael's Church 20 T M Newson Pen Pictures of St Paul, Minnesota and Biographical Sketches of Old Settlers By the Author St Paul 1886 Page 698 16 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addttion With the building of the Courthouse and other institutions nearby, and the opemng of the Third Street hill, the lots m Churchill, Nelson and Slaughter's Addition began to sell, houses were built, and the neighborhood began to take shape But the two men most responsible for these changes were both dead Levi Churchill had died at the young age of 45 in St Louis, Missouri on Christmas Eve, 1857 He had left his entire estate to his wife, Elizabeth M Churchill Ehzabeth, in turn, assigned responsibihty for the affairs of the Stillwater partnership to her brother, John Proctor, a well-known Stillwater resident 21 Socrates Nelson had died on May 6, 1867 at the age of 53 His heirs were his wife, Betsey, and his one surviving daughter, Emma A Nelson Socrates left an estate of considerable value His household goods were appraised at $448 00 mcluchng a very expensive $50 00 double barreled shotgun (By contrast, his four featherbeds were only valued at $30 00, and a walnut dining table was valued at $3 00) His store inventory was alued at $9770 00 His accounts payable were valued at $13,416 00, giving him total assets m personal property of $23,303 00 In addition to this, his real estate, consisting of lots m Stillwater and Baytown, were appraised at $63,990 00 The total value of his estate was close to $100,000 00, a great deal of money when the average wage was $2 00 a day, and you could buy a modest house for $500 00 22 His business affairs were to be continued by Betsey and a local businessman and surveyor, Harvey Wilson The other two partners Robert Slaughter and Hilary B Hancock, discouraged no doubt by the panic of 1857, forfeited their claim to the lots and are nowhere to be found 23 THE FIRST SIX HOUSES, THE 1870 BIRD'S EYE VIEW In 1870, when the first Bird's Eye View map of Stillwater was drawn, just before the S Third Street hill was opened, there were only six houses in this Addition 21 Will #51 Washington County Probate Court On June 21 1858 Ehzabeth Churchill gave the first of many Powers of Attorney to act for her D Bonds 34 22 Will #155 Washington County Probate Court 23 There are no recorded documents to explain what happened to Slaughter and Hancock s title to the property Slaughter I believe ended up in St Peter Minnesota I don t know what happened to Hancock 17 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson 8. Slaughter's Addition The first house built m the Addition seems to be one that stood on the southwest corner of S Sixth and W Churchill. Streets, today that location is occupied by an 1890's home with the number 902 S Sixth Street The first house on this location was built in 1857-58 by Charles and Mary Wagner who purchased the lot from Elizabeth Churchill m July of 1857 for $250 00 The following year, in May of 1858, they took out a $1,000 00 mortgage from the eccentric and wealthy Englishman, Morgan May —for whom the Township is named Two years later, May foreclosed on the house and property and sold it to Mrs Mary Jackman In 1866, Mary bought three additional lots In 1883, Mary sold the house and four lots to Maria C Adams This large house is quite evident on the 1870 Bird's Eve View Map In May of 1894, a lumberman, John J, Kilty, bought Lots 1 & 2, and presumably built the small Queen Anne house that graces those lots today 24 The oldest remaining house, sitting high on a hill, which dates from before the Civil War, is at 313 W Willard Street Elizabeth Churchill sold Rudolph Lehmicke Lot. 3 of Block 6 in April of 1861 He built a modest house on the lot valued at $450 in the 1863 Tax Assessor's records 25 Lehmicke, who was later to become a Washington County Probate Court Judge, moved out around 1865, and Kate and Thomas Powell moved in and purchased three additional lots from Elizabeth Churchill 26 By 1871, A M Dodd, who was later to become Register of Deeds for Washington County, had purchased the house Three years later, he purchased two additional lots, 5 & 6, from Elizabeth Churchill thereby owning all of the six lots fronting W Willard Street between S Fifth and S Sixth Streets 27 In 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, Elizabeth and Wilham Giossi purchased Lot 10, Block 6 from Ehzabeth Churchill A year and a half later, they purchased the adjoining Lot 11 By 1870, they had built a house, which took the number 718 S Fifth Street, estimated at $400, on their two lots William worked in the Staples Mill 28 In 1879, the Giossi family sold the property to Albert Drews, a Miller 29 In March of 1868, the Canadian born Herman and Katie Steinhorst purchased Block 6, Lots 7, 8, & 9, from Elizabeth Churchill Somewhere between 1865 and 1870 (a period for which we have no tax assessor's 24 I Deeds 79 D Mtg 198 P Deeds 262 Q Deeds 428 10 Deeds 591 40 Deeds 220 26 N Deeds 286 SAM 78 Ro11 4 26 P Deeds 200, Q Deeds 551, R Deeds 481 27 Z Deeds 211 1877 83 Stillwater City Directories SAM 78 Roll 8 & subsequent 28 R Deeds 453 V Deeds 518 SAM 7 Ro11 2 Stillwater City Directory 1877 29 8 Deeds 207 Stillwater City Directory 1881 82 18 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition records), they built a $350 house that later took the number, 712 S Fifth Street Herman was a carpenter who built at least one other house in the neighborhood There were three children m the fanuly Alfred, Frank and Caroline Eventually the family moved to Oak Park Ellen and John Goff purchased Lot 11 in Block 7 in the spring of 1868 When the tax assessors made his rounds in 1870, he placed a value of $200 on the building on the lot —a small house Four years later, this home at 722 S Sixth Street, had increased in value to $660, implying a large addition to the original home John Goff is fisted in the Stillwater City Directory of 1882 83 as a cooper, 1 e barrel maker They must have liked the neighborhood because they remained in this house for the next quarter century 30 Elizabeth Churchill deeded over Lot 1, Block 7 to an H Mahlstrom who in turn built a large $700 house that took the number, 712 S Sixth Street Two years later, the assessed ' alue had risen to $1,000 Alas, the house went into foreclosure with Hans Hanson, the mortgagee By 1882, the house and property had passed into the hands of William E Cummings, who had a jobbing shop on the corner of S Third and Oak Streets, his wife was a dressmaker, and their soft, Albert, was an apprentice at the St Croix Drug Company 31 CHURCHILL STREET HOUSES 7 n August of 1872, Elizabeth Churchill sold the west one -thud of Lots 26, 27, and 28, Block 9, to Frederick Kadel, a wagon maker Within a year, he had built a house that took the number, 521 W Churchill Street, valued by the tax assessor at about $350 Ten years later, m April of 1882, Fred sold the property to John George Kern From his new house, it was a 12 block walk for John Kern to his place of employment below the bluff, the Hersey & Bean Lumber Company Kern lived m the house for over two decades In 1922, Albert Peaslee, a plumbing contractor and the owner of the house paid Emil Bieging, a local building contractor, about $100 00 to have a new porch entrance and a new window added to the structure Two years later, m June of 1924, Peaslee paid another local contractor, Frank Limner, $1400 00 to rearrange the interior rooms of the house as well as other repairs 32 soy Deeds 153 SAM 7 Ro11 2 31 SAM 7 Roll 2 X Deeds 493 1884 1887 Stillwater City Directories 32 X Deeds 71 10 Deeds 121 SAM 78 Roll 9 1877 1882 3 1887, 1904 Stillwater City Directories City of Stillwater Building Permits #1922 #2041 19 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition In the tax assessor's hand written record in 1872, there is a penciled note added that a D Hannigan is the owner of Lots 21 and 22, Block 8 and notes there is a $200 improvement on the property This appears to be one of those instances where Churchill and Nelson sold the lots on an unrecorded document similar to a Contract for Deed, because the first recorded sale of the lots takes place m May of 1873 when Ehzabeth Churchill sells the property to Henry Diers Over the next decade, the property is sold three more times, ending up in the possession of John Curtiss in 1883 By 1890, Curtiss, a stone mason, is hsted in the City Directory as occupying the house at 514 W Churchill Street 33 Ehzabeth Churchill sold the east two thirds of Lots 26, 27, and 28, Block 9, to John M Nelson in August of 1872 It appears from the tax assessor's records that he quickly built a small house which tripled in value by 1874, and became a good sized house that later took the number, 513 W Churchill Street Nelson worked for various employers, including the Isaac Staples and the Hersey Bean lumber companies Nelson hved here more than 20 years 34 Churchill & Nelson sold Lots 1 & 2 to Thomas Sutton in May of 1873 Sutton turned around and sold the two lots to Peter Shattuck two months later Five years later, in September of 1878, Shattuck sold the two lots to Daniel Reardon who, in 1882, built a substantial $700, two story house, 20 feet by 28 feet, which took the house number, 505 W Churchill Street In 1891, Reardon, who was a Stillwater policeman, hired the Northey Brothers, local contractors, to do some fu sh work inside the house In 1928, Emil Bieging, a local carpenter, made a $1,200 addition to the home 36 John and Nancy McGrath, natives of New Brunswick, purchased two lots from Elizabeth Churchill in June of 1873 for $250 That same year, they built a substantial house the tax assessor valued at $600 00 In 1876, John died, and Nancy was left in their home at 502 W Churchill Street with her large Irish family which, m 1880, was hsted as Nancy, age 58, Maggie, 32, Andrew 29, John 26, Nelhe, 20, Emma, 16, Katie, 14, and a nephew, Joseph 7 Nancy hved in the house until her death in 1899 36 33 SAM 7 Roll 3 Z Deeds 343 1 Deeds 144 8 Deeds 37 12 Deeds 178 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory 34 X Deeds 73 SAM 7 Roll 3 SAM 7 Roll 4 1877 & 1887 Stillwater City Directories 36 X Deeds 346 350 1 Deeds 627 City of Stillwater Building Permit #532 8., 2235 Stillwater City Directories for 1881 82 1887 36 X Deeds 325 SAM 78 Roll 9, 1880 Census #222 there is quite a bit more information on this particular house in an article by Brent Peterson in The St Croix Valley Press April 11 1996 20 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition In 1874, Walter Herald bought four lots in Block 7 from Elizabeth Churchill lots 17, 18, 19, & 20 It does not appear that Herald built on these four lots, but in May of 1890, he divided the four lots on an east -west basis The west one-half of the four lots was sold to Alexander ("Sandy") McClellan who, in the spring of 1892, built a house on his half of the lots The home, which took the number, 410 W Churchill Street, was estimated to have a building cost of $900, its dimensions were fisted as 19 front feet, 26 feet m the rear, and 28 feet deep, one and a half stories high It was to have a 9-foot by 14-foot cellar 7 feet deep The contractor was Eugene Schmidt, who had an office at 412 S 3rd St In 1932, another contractor charged about $350 to do a general remodeling of the interior, changing partitions, and putting in new floors 37 The east half of lots 17, 18, 19, & 20 were sold by Walter Herald to Robert Barter in May of 1890 It appears that Barter built the first house — which took the number, 404 W Churchill Street — on this property soon after he purchased it Barter, like his neighbor, McClellan, was a lumberman After the turn of the century, George Giebler, a butcher who worked in the family meat market on South Main Street, acquired the property Giebler kept the house for many years In 1938, he paid Emil Bieging, a local carpenter, $600 to remodel the house into a duplex, including an outside stairway to the second floor 38 But Giebler was not only a butcher, he was also a developer He purchased the two lots west of him, lots 21 & 22, and divided them on an east -west fine On the east half of the two lots, he had the home at 416 W Churchill Street built in November of 1912 The price of the building is listed on the building permit as $2,000 00 The size was to be 28 by 30 feet, 2 stories, with a full 7 foot deep basement 39 Three years later, m 1915, Giebler had a second house built almost identical to the first $2000,00 was the fisted cost of this home at 424 W Churchill Street, but this house was a trifle smaller at 26 by 30 feet This, however was not the first house at this address The first was built about 1870 by Phillip and Eliza McDermott, the parents of Nancy McGrath who lived at 502 W Churchill Street McDermott became a prosperous lumberman, and in 1884 built a large attractive house that remains at 1312 37 X Deeds 539 City of Stillwater Building Permit #678 #2369 1892 Stillwater City Directory 38 X Deeds 539 City of Stillwater Building Permit #2535 39 City of Stillwater Building Permit #1516 21 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Adchtion Fourth Avenue South When the original house on these two lots was demolished, I do not know 40 The home at 421 W Churchill Street has been changed considerably from its original appearance, but it would seem that at least a part of this house was built about 1872 by Alfred Johnson who is hsted in the Stillwater City Directory of 1877 as a member of the river pohce In the summer of 1917, local carpenter, Enul Bieging added a $150 porch to the house 41 The classic Greek Revival house at 322 W Churchill Street was built in 1871 by Levi Thompson — who does not seem to be a relation of the other Levi E Thompson in Stillwater, an attorney and land developer In enumerating progress in the year, the Stillwater Gazette of Nol, 14th, 1871, hsts "Levi Thompson res and barn $3000" under "Improvements on Sixth Street " The tax assessor was a httle more realistic in hstmg the N alue of the house at $1,000 00 This property transaction is another example of how Churchill and Nelson used an Intermediate unrecorded deed in selling their properties Although we know the house was there m 1871, and therefore Thompson must have been in possession of the property, the first recorded deed does not occur until November of 1878 when a Warranty Deed transfers the property from Churchill to Thompson Levi and his wife, Aurora, were born in Maine, they had two sons, Charles and Ernest, and two daughters, Ahce and Iris In the later part of his hfe, Thompson was a partner with Asa Pattee in a coal and wood fuel business 42 For a time in the 1870's, the home at 319 W Churchill Street had the more logical house number, 619 W Churchill Street James B and Martha Davis, both of whom had come to Minnesota from Maine, built this house in 1872 James worked in the lumber trade, first as a merman, later for Isaac Staples The Davis family had three children Edward, Ford, and Gertrude Although their home was actually built m 1872, the deed from Elizabeth Churchill to Martha Ann Davis was not recorded until July of 1874 In 1891, a good-sized one and a half story stable was added to the property 43 Unfortunately I was unable to ascertain an accurate date for the building of 314 W Churchill Street Both 322 and 314 W Churchill were on three lots belonging to Levi Thompson Because all three lots were in the R Deeds 636 T Deeds 483 SAM 7 Ro11 2 City of Stillwater Building Permit #1619 1880 Census #212 Empson History of the Hersey Staples Addition page 33 41 SAM 5 Roll 2 Z Deeds 61 City of Stillwater Building Permit #1665 42 SAM 5 Ro11 2, 5 Deeds 45 1880 Census #191 1877 and 1887 Stillwater City Directories Z Deeds 27 1880 Census #197 1877 & 1887 Stillwater City Directories SAM 5 Roll 2 City of Stillwater Building Permit #606 22 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition hands of Thompson until 1908, the assessor did not appraise this house at 314 as a separate parcel In the 1879 Bird's Eye View Map, it appears there is a small house m this location It may be that that original small house remains as an addition on the west side of the present two story house My best guess would be that at least part of what is today 314 W Churchill was built in the late 1870's There are no records pertaining specifically to this house 310 W Churchill Street is another house, which I cannot date accurately It was built, probably as a second house, on the two lots purchased by Howard Packard and the site of his larger home at 824 S Fifth Street It is quite a small house of the simple style built in the decade before and after the Civil War It appears to be on the 1879 Bird's Eye View Map There are no records pertaining specifically to this house In 1871, the tax assessor, making his rounds of this neighborhood, placed a value of $350 on the house situated on the three lots (1, 2, 3, Block 11) owned by Hans Hanson In 1881, Hanson sold his property and the house that took the number, 309 W Churchill Street, to Fridohn Becker Becker was a teamster In the summer of 1911, this house was moved on its two lots to accommodate the building of 904 and 908 S Fifth Street In May of 1872, Elizabeth Churchill sold Lot 28, Block 12 to Bridget Keating, and there is a note in the assessor's records penciled m "Keating's house, $400 " Two years later, however, the property was sold to Joseph Olson who lived at 219 W Churchill Street for more than two decades But it appears this house was demolished, and around the turn of the century a second house was built in this location The present house had five feet added to it as well as a porch over the kitchen in 1922, and the following year, there was a massive $5,000 00 remodeling in which the rooms and porches were rearranged 45 In the post Second World War building boom, 413 W Churchill Street was built in 1948 and 313 W Churchill Street w as built in 1951 on what appears to have been a vacant lots 522 W Churchill Street was built in 1950, and 509 W Churchill Street was built in 1955 on what also appear to have been vacant lots 44 SAM 78 Roll 8 R Deeds 116 1877 & 1884 Stillwater City Directories City of Stillwater Building Permit #1453 afi SAM 78 Ro11 9 D Bonds 400 Z Deeds 34 1887 Stillwater City Directory City of Stillwater Building Permits #1899 #2003 23 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition A MARRIAGE On September 26, 1871, the business of Churchill and Nelson took another turn Emma, the heir and only surviving daughter of Socrates Nelson, married a 28 year -old dapper and promising Stillwater attorney, Fayette Marsh One of the first orders of business was to build a splendid new house for the family The house at 516 S Broadway, which cost around $15,000 00 was a resplendent conglomeration of brackets, bays, porches, all in a more or less fashionable French Second Empire Style [pix of house] In November of 1880, Emma Nelson Marsh died leaving three children In her will, we find that the $100,000 00 estate left her by her father some 13 years earher has been reduced by one third Emma's personal assets included bank stock, promissory notes and cash worth $9,131 00 The s alue of her real estate was reckoned at $57,275 00, which included the value of the S Broadway house at $13,000 00 From her personal estate, her husband, Fayette, was to receive $3,043 23, each of the three children, Ella N Marsh, Nelson Orris Marsh, and Faith Marsh, were to receive $2,029 23 Fayette was the administrator of the will, and it was his task to continue managing the real estate interests of the estate However, there was apparently some difference of opinion over the admuustration of the real estate between Fayette and his mother in law, Betsey Nelson, Socrates' widow In a five page memorandum between the two heirs of Socrates, which reads, in part, " certain differences have arisen between [Fayette] and Betsey D Nelson respecting the rights and interest in the residue of the estate of Socrates Nelson, deceased which consists principally in certain real estate situated in the city of Stillwater " Fayette agreed to pay her a monthly allowance from the proceeds of the real estate As an indication of the amounts concerned, there is a note m the will that the rents received from the properties was $4,270 00 between November 23, 1880 and November 1, 1882 46 But Betsey Nelson was apparently not the only one Fayette Marsh had difficulty with The beleaguered son in-law, who had an unfortunate and ultimately fatal addiction to alcohol, was apparently accused of living off, or at least using his wife and mother-in-law's money for his own extravagant purposes In a letter of justification to his children, accompanying an account book, he wrote a° Will of Emma Nelson Marsh #535 in Washington County Probate Court 24 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition "The account which is set forth just above is as you perceive the account from the time we finished building the House [516 S Broadway] up to the time of your Mother's Death The history of that period is this In order to explain the account from 1873-4 when we finally closed up House building until 1876 Mrs Nelson continued the business of the Churchill & Nelson Estate Your mother's [Emma Nelson] property was our half of that estate And you will find that I have charged to myself all that which I received from him during that period, even when it was delivered directly to your Grand Mother This lasted until the Fall of 1876 at which time Harvey Wilson [a trustee under Socrates Nelson's will] died Then for about one year or perhaps a little more Mr John Proctor, the brother of Mrs Churchill, who was the owner of the other half of the estate ran the business, and I have charged myself with all of the cash which I obtained from him There was no other source from which I received any belonging to your Mother during that period, so I charged it all to myself During that period also- the fall of 1876 your Grand Mother [Betsey Nelson] resided with me and I paid the entire expenses of my family and of your Grand Mother except for as far as she purchased clothing or expended money which was drawn from Mr Wilson which money you will find charged to me in the accounts set forth But the money turned over to her for her especial use was also credited back to her in the same account so that made it stand in this way From the time we quit building the House up to 1876 I supported your Grand Mother except as to her spending money and some money which she used for the purchase of clothing that she received from Mr Wilson through me as indicated in the account This continued to be the case during the administration of the estate by Mr Proctor which lasted until sometime in 1877 Except that he so miserably managed the affairs of the estate that but little money was received which might be disbursed You will observe by this account contained in the old Wilson Book, which will be presented for you, that he must have lost most of the rents and indeed made a very lame attempt at running the business of the Estate It was the actual desire of both parties that the Estate should then be divided It was done so in a very satisfactory way I believe to both of them 47" "Now at the division of the estate a certain lot of notes were turned over to me as the agent of your mother, a part of them never were collected, all of those that were collected you will find in the list charged to my account on page 14 of this Book Three of the notes were not collected and you will find them charged to my account At the time of the division of the estate there was no property except certain bank stock in the Lumbermans National Bank and in the First National Bank of Stillwater, these certain promissory notes and 47 Previous to 1877 the deeds in Churchill Nelson & Slaughter s Addition were signed by all parties John Proctor (for Elizabeth Churchill) Betsey Nelson Emma and Fayette Marsh When the estate was divided certain lots were deeded to Churchill and certain lots were deeded to Nelson's heirs 25 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addttton the real estate The real estate of which I speak was conveyed to her by Deed You will find these deeds recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds at the Court House [3 Deeds 116] There were three of these deeds The deeds that were so recorded described all of the real estate that was conveyed to your mother at that time I enclose in this book and attach to it maps showing where that real estate was situated The colored pieces on the maps indicate the estates which were conveyed to your mother at that time It contained a complete description of all that was conveyed to her, nothing has been omitted In order to show you that I account for every piece of Real Estate sold I have jotted down upon these maps on each lot the number of the item and the pages where you will find that I have been charged with it This is so that you may be perfectly convinced that I have accounted for every foot of real estate which was deeded to your mother or of which she was the lawful owner When I do that and account for the promissory notes received and for the cash received from Mr Proctor and Mr Wilson I have absolutely accounted for every dollars worth of property of hers that I ever touched or handled There was also certain other real estate which was nominally or apparently conveyed to your Mother The deed of that has never been recorded The reason for that was this Before the division of the partnership property there was quite a number of lots conveyed by way of Bond for Deed [similar to our Contract for Deed] and notes given therefore In many instances the taxes were not paid upon it, therefore the deed of that could not be recorded These notes given for them are the same notes which I have charged myself twice because they were already sold and a bond given for a deed so that the real estate really was not ours The bond only giving us a lien or title to the property until the notes were paid When the notes were paid the property became theirs Therefore I ought only to charge myself with the notes [Many of the lots in this addition were not conveyed with a I% arranty Deed to the new owners until several years after the owners had built a home on the lot What Fayette is explauung above is that an intermediate (unrecorded) instrument much hke our Contract for Deed was used to cone ey the property until a later Warranty Deed was issued by Churchill or Nelson] If you are not satisfied upon this point show this paragraph to any real estate Lawyer or any competent Lawyer and he will tell you that I am stating just what the legal rights of the case are and that I should so charge myself just as I have done and in no other way And you will discuss by the examination of this account and the books of Harvey Wilson and the maps which are attached to this Book and the deeds which are upon record at the Court House recorded in the year 1877, about the month of May, that I have accounted for every note and every dollar in money that I ever received of your mother's and every piece of real estate that I ever sold of hers up to and 26 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition including the year 1880, the account closing on the 23rd day of November 1880, the day your mother died " "Let me state the proposition broadly to you that from the time that I married your mother in 1871 to the 23rd day of November, 1880, I furnished the entire support of my family without the use of a Dollar of your mother's money That such money of hers as I did receive was expended as you see by the account tor her benefit and in the protection of her property and in the building of valuable Buildings upon her estate When I came to take charge of the Estate and the division was made there was only one building upon the property save and except our Homestead There was no property that would pay an income as you perceive except this building known as the old Willard Building which was standing at the time that I write this explanation That was rented for five hundred Dollars per year The taxes on the property, it being all outlying lots, was above Twelve Hundred Dollars per year You can see that instead of being a help to us tt was a positive nuisance and burden Yet notwithstanding this truth all of those years I necessarily had to bear the humiliation and reproach of the current belief in society, reiterated upon every possible opportunity by the friends of Mrs Nelson that I was being supported out of the property belonging to your mother Your mother understood it correctly and used every possible endeavor she could to correct such a misapprehension and in all respects in reference to it behaved toward me like a noble woman which she was In her there was no fault either in reference to that or anything else This will close up the account to 1880 at the time of her death The next two years the account was filed with the Probate Court It consisted in the collection of various notes which we had at that time and in the sale of some certain real estate I will indicate upon the map what the Real Estate was The account will only be the account just as I filed it in the Probate Court at that time and nothing more From that time forward I will continue the account so as to show that I have accounted for every piece of property, money or any other thing had or owned by your mother As I have above stated I found the property was outlying and producing no income in my judgement and I now believe it was the best business judgement in order to secure an Income for my wife and children in case of my death and I thought that this outlying property ought to be sold and converted into money and buildings built upon that portion of the estate lying upon Main Street in the city of Stillwater where it would bring a good rent As you see by the accounts I have accomplished for that purpose the buildings are built and if you notice the larger rents with which my account has been charged since that date you will perceive that it was a good business judgement 27 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition This property will be turned over to you in your due proportions when you arrive at Lawful age, and upon my Death by the terms of my will You will inherit every Dollars worth of it, every dollars worth of property of which your mother died possessed together with much other property and life insurance which I shall be able to confer upon you I do this with only the desire of accounting to you for all of your mother's estate I shall neither permit my wife [he had remarried] or anyone else to inherit a dollars worth of the property that belonged to your mother After the close of the account which I shall add and which is filed in the Probate Court I will go on with the receipts and disbursements from that date until the present, and from time to time while I live I shall keep up this account And I say here, that in case I shall live, after I complete one more building up on that property I shall feel that I have made sacrifices enough in the labor I have bestowed upon it and shall feel at liberty to use the income in excess for what I have done with the money "98 FOURTH STREET HOUSES The history of the house at 704 S Fourth Street begins with the Stillwater Gazette of November 14, 1871 Under a listing of improvements on Fourth Street for the year, there is a note A Caplazie $500 Albert Caplazi bought Lots 1 & 2, Block 5 from Elizabeth Churchill in 1871 on a Bond for Deed (similar to our Contract for Deed), followed by a Warranty Deed in 1872 Albert Caplazi built a house on the southwest corner of Fourth and Willard and at one time had a dairy of about 15 cows, until the herd law went into effect about 1885 when the cows were not allowed to run at large, many in the neighborhood came and got their milk fresh at milking time, morning and evening 49 When the herd law went into effect, Caplazi opened a grocery store on the corner at 702 S Fourth Street while hying next door at 706 S Fourth Street Caplazi and his wife, Chetien, had emigrated from Switzerland They had, in 1880, three children Paul, 12, Rosa, 10, Ottehe, 4 48 This document along with other information on Churchill and Nelson is from the grandson of Nelson Orris Marsh (who was a son of Emma & Fayette Marsh), Richard Huseth, 11007 Spicewood Parkway Austin, TX 78750 Richard was extremely helpful in gathering information on Churchill and Nelson 49 Paul Caplazi unpublished manuscript 1944 in the Stillwater Public Library 28 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition In the summer of 1941, a new residence was constructed on these two lots by local contractor, George Olson The cost was estunated at $6,000 00, the owner was Mrs Ethel Gower 6° Henry Desteffany purchased Lot 5, Block 5 m November of 1874, and it appears that his one and a half story house, 20 x 26 feet, at 716 S Fourth was built soon afterwards Henry worked as a clerk for a local lumber company In 1888, local contractors, the Northey Brothers, constructed a large $700 addition that matched the size of the original house 61 In 1878, Morris and Bridget Quinlan, who owned Lots 6 & 7, Block 5, on what today we would call a Contract for Deed, built a home which took the number, 720 S Fourth Sti eet Quinlan went to obtain a Warranty Deed to the lots from Emma and Fayette Marsh in August of 1880 In 1932, the ulterior of the house was extensively remodeled with new floors, new stairs, and new doors 62 From the tax assessor's records, it appears 724 S Fourth Street was built m 1878 when the value of Lots 6 & 7 was put at $750 The lots, however, were m Fayette Marsh's name indicating that whoever built the house had a Contract for Deed (unrecorded) interest in the property rather than possessing a Warranty Deed No other information is available 63 New Brunswick natives, John and Elizabeth Mealey, built their house at 802 S Fourth Street on Lot 8, Block 5 in 1871 when it was listed among a number of improvements in Nelson's Field According to a building permit, this original house was one-story, 24-feet by 24 feet, with a 16 x 20 foot ell It had a 10 x 16 foot cellar In 1886, William May, a local carpenter, added a porch and bay window after moving the house eight feet west on the lot The following year, another carpenter, Michael Carroll, constructed a $210 18 x 20 foot addition to the house to be used as a kitchen John Mealey was a Stillwater pohceman, and he and his family lived m the home until 1903 64 In 1878, According to the yearly tax assessor's records, a F Scwartz built a $500 house that today has the number, 806 S Fourth Street w D Bonds 272 Z Deeds 75 1877 1881 82 1884 1887 Stillwater City Directories City of Stillwater Building Permit #2632 51 Z Deeds 147 1877 & 1881 82 Stillwater City Directories City of Stillwater Building Permit #374 52 5 Deeds 582 SAM 7 Roll 7 City of Stillwater Building Permit #2367 1887 Stillwater Dity Directory lists John Quinlan a plumber living there 53 SAM 7 Roll 7 54 List of improvements Stillwater Gazette Nov 14 1871, City of Stillwater Building Permits #29 & 203 1887 City Directory lists both Mealey as well as Neil McKay running a grocery store at that address 1880 Census #152 29 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition However, Schwartz never received a Warranty Deed to the property so the extent of his tenure cannot be traced In April of 1883, Joseph and Wilhelrnina Lmk purchased the house and property He was a bartender when the couple took up residence there in the early 1880's For a time, the house had the number, 730 S Fourth Street 55 James Barry, who worked as a watchman for the Hersey, Bean & Brown Mill on South Main Street had the home at 810 S Fourth Street built m 1878 He bought the lots in 1876 and 1879 ss In 1871, The Stillwater Gazette combed the city for any improvements that could be used to brag up the progress of Stillwater In the November 14th issue, under the heading "Nelson s Field," there is a fisting for "P Goodman, res 24 x 26, $400 " This is a reference to the building of the residence at 816 S Foul th Street Phillip Goodman was a lumberman, and he lived m the home for over a quarter century In the early days of house numbers, this home had the number 740 S Fourth Street 57 The lot 820 S Fourth Street is situated on was carved out of Lots 13 and 14 I was unable to deduce any information about the building of this house The brick commercial building 826 S Fourth Street appears to hal, e been built m the 1920's, but there does not seem to be any building permit That location was the site of an earlier grocery store in the 1880's operated by Edward and Philomena Lemoine, and later, James Walsh They had built a house there m 1875 b8 Dennis J Hooley, a butcher by trade, built his first grocery store and meat market m 1886 at 902 S Fourth Street His first store was one story lugh, 20 feet wide, and 36 feet deep It did not have a foundation or basement The price of construction was $275 On the adjacent lot, he built a 14 x 21 foot stable —probably to house his delivery wagon The builder was Edward Olson Denms lived next door at 906 S Fourth Street It wasn't until 1890 that he actually purchased Lots 1 and 2 of Block 12 In 1901, Dennis had local carpenter, Alfred Zoller (who lived at 809 Sixth Street S ) build him a new building that was two stories high, 30 feet wide by 51 feet deep The building has a peaked roof, stone foundation, sheet iron ceiling, b5 SAM 7 Ro11 7 1882 83 & 1884 Stillwater City Directories 12 Deeds 44 66 Z Deeds 572 5 Deeds 420 1877 1883 67 8 Deeds 3 SAM 78 Roll 9 SAM 7 Roll 4 1877 1884 Stillwater City Directories 68 A Liens 123 I Deeds 25 1877 1894 Stillwater City Directories 30 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition and cost $1200 In 1943, local contractor, George W Olsen made a number of improvements to the interior of the store 69 In October of 1881 and June of 1882, Charles Nordstrom bought Lots 5 & 6, Block 12, and soon afterwards built a large dwelling at 916 S Fourth Street Nordstrom is listed in the 1887 Stillwater City Directory as a laborer 6o Michael Carroll, a carpenter, built the home at 924 S Fourth Street about 1874 shortly after he bought Lot 8, Block 12 from Churchill & Nelson Michael was born in New Brunswick about 1843, his wife, Mary, was born in Maine about 1850 By 1880, they had three children James, age 6, Miles, age 2, and John, about 8 months old In 1886, the Carroll's sold their house to Maurice Clancy, and moved down to South Main Street In 1890 Clancey added Lot 7 to the property 61 In 1873, Edward and Philomene Lemoine built a small home at what would later take the number, 1006 S Fourth Street He was a Canadian born carpenter, the father of seven children Alice, Clara, Felix, Philuda9, Fred Clothide, and Mary For a time in the early 1880's, the Lemoines ran a grocery store out of their house As far as I could tell, the Lemoines never did have a deed for their property, and in 1882, it passed to Mary Ann McCallom 62 About 1884, George Muller, the boat manufacturer, had a large house built at 1010 S Fourth Street on two lots he had purchased from Churchill & Nelson in May of 1873 Unfortunately, that house was destroyed by fire, and in December of 1888, Muller took out a building permit to rebuild the house to the same dimensions, which were two stories, 22 feet by 28 feet deep The cost of the house was put at $1,800, a substantial sum for the time In 1931, Emil Bieging performed a substantial remodeling of the kitchen 63 In April of 1872, Hersey, Bean & Brown, a lumber company on Stillwater's south Main Street filed a lien on Lots 13 & 14, Block 12, against Edward and Ann Elliot "for erecting a dwelling house " The unpaid amount 69 City of Stillwater Building Permits #69 #1024 #1222 2713 Stillwater City Directories 1887-1905 35 Deeds 205 6o 10 Deeds 219 8 Deeds 461 SAM 5, Roll 6 61 1877 1884 Stillwater City Directories 1880 U S Census #138 Z Deeds 604 15 Deeds 556 31 Deeds 31 1890 Stillwater City Directory 62 M Mortgages 557 0 Mortgages 48 SAM 78 Roll 9 SAM 7 Ro11 4 12 Deeds 15 1877 1884 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #148 63 SAM 78 Roll 14 City of Stillwater Building Permit #380 2349 X Deeds 355 1884 Stillwater City Directory 31 The West One -Half of Churchcll, Nelson 8, Slaughter's Addctcon was 174 22 From this hen, we can date the first house on these lots, a house which today has the number, 1022 S Fourth Street The tax assessor's records for 1873 assign a value of $300 to the structure on the lots Edward Elliot was born in Ireland about 1830, his wife, Ann, was born in New Brunswick about 1837 They had eight children living with them William J , 22, Mattie, 18, Edward, 15, Allan, 12, Katie, 10, Annie, 8, Nora, 5, and George, 2 The house, it appears, also had the numbers 1022 W Hancock, and 506 W Hancock Around 1897, the property was sold to the Malloy family (Did they build a new house9) After the Second World War, in a period of expansion for the city of Stillwater, several new houses were built on lots that had previously contained an older house 710 S Fourth Street, built in 1966, had previously been the site of the home of Henry and Dominica Desteffany which they had built in the 1870's 64 912 S Fourth Street was built in 1946 on what had previously been a vacant lot FIFTH STREET HOUSES Two years after the Gloss' family built their home at 718 S Fifth Street, Dietrich J and Margaret Muhlenbruch purchased the adjacent lots 12, 13, & 14 from Elizabeth Churchill Within that same year, a house, valued by the tax assessor at $500, had been constructed on the lots Muhlenbiuch, who later changed his name to the much more generic, John D Millbrook6b, was a stone mason When house numbers were assigned, this home became 804 S Fifth Street The Millbrooks lived in the home through the 1890's 66 Elizabeth Churchill sold Lot 26, Block 5, to Patrick and Bridget Collins m May of 1872 The following year, the assessor noted a house valued at $175 on the property Patrick was born in Ireland, Bridget in Canada, their three children William, John, and Eddie, were born in the United States Patrick was trained as a stone mason, but he eventually became the Assistant Health Officer of the City of Stillwater The Collins family lived in their house at 715 S Fifth Street for more than 30 years before Patrick's death in 1907 67 84 T Deeds 419 X Deeds 192 Z Deeds 147 City of Stillwater Building Permits #1988 #2051 #2078 1880 Census #158 1877 1883 Stillwater City Directories 66 There was this odd practice in the 19th Century of switching a man s first two names around Thus William D Evans will suddenly become David W Evans This can be very confusing If foreign names are involved it is even more confusing 66 X Deeds 352 SAM 5 Ro11 2 Stillwater City Directories 1881 1894 67 X Deeds 370 SAM 78 Roll 9 1877 1881 2 1894 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #178 32 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition The contractor, August Kutz, and his carpenter sons, Charles, Herman, and Rmehold built 713 S Fifth Street m the spring of 1888 The homeowner was Robert Schneider, a machinist, who had purchased the property from Sarah Withros in April of 1883 The building permit lists the cost of the house at $600 00, and gives its size as 18 feet by 26 feet, one -and - a half stories Three years after building the house, Schneider took out a mortgage from the Stillwater Fire Department Relief Association 63 It is difficult to date the home at 708 S Fifth Street because it is not, in the land or tax assessor records, separated out from the house at 313 W Willard From the value of the combined lots, I would guess this house was built m the early 1870's The property was owned for many years by A M Dodd who lived on Willard A German born widow, Johanna Morgan, age 43, purchased Lot 21, Block 5 in 1874, and a year later, she also bought Lot 22 A penciled note an the yearly assessor's record notes the lots are "with house," and indicates the building's value at $640, a substantial house foi the time But Johanna needed a larger house, for the 1880 Census tells us that she had seven children living with her Georgia, 28, and Fredericka, 26, were dressmakers John, 21, and Silas, 25, were tanners In addition, there were the other children, Josephine, 24, Charles, 14, and Ella, age 12 The first number of this house was 727 S Fifth Street which ignored the existence of the east - west Abbott Street The house number was later changed to 807 S Fifth Street 69 The tax assessor's records indicate the home at 817 S Fifth Street was built about 1884, probably as a part of the Goodman family who lived behind this house at 816 S Fourth Street 70 John H Johnson purchased Lots 16 & 17, Block 5, from Hans Hanson on September 3, 1879 It appears Hanson had built a house that later took the number 823 S Fifth Street on the lots around 1873 Johnson was a sawyer for the East Side Lumber Company In 1889, Sven Berglund, a well- known local contractor, added a 16-foot by 16-foot $150 00 one-story kitchen to the house 71 88 City of Stillwater Building Permit #281 10 Deeds 630 11 Mtgs 127 as Z Deeds 8 229 SAM 7, Roll 4 1877 1881 82 83 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #176 70 SAM 78 Roll 14 10 Deeds 164 71 5 Deeds 207 0 Mtgs 91 SAM 78 Roll 9 City of Stillwater Building Permit #329 1877 & 1881 Stillwater City Directories 33 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition In a burst of civic boostensm, the Stillwater Gazette of November 14th, 1871, listed all the improvements within the city for the past year Under the list of improvements for Fifth Street, there is a notation H Packard, res and barn" Howard and Deborah Packard, both of them Maine born, received the warranty deed fiom Elizabeth Churchill to their lots 18 & 19, Block 6, in January of 1877, six years after they built their substantial home at 824 S Fifth Street Packard was a guard at the state prison north of downtown Stillwater The 1880 Census hsts the Packards, both in their 50's, hving with William & Carohne V6luting, and their two adolescent children This house has, in the rear, what appears to be another house tacked on to the main structure This rear structure appears to be a typical small house of the Civil War period with its center door and symmetrical windows in front Perhaps it was the first house on the property 72 Charles Glaser, a grocer in the neighborhood, had the home at 904 S Fifth Street built in the summer of 1911 The building permit specifies the cost at $2,200 00, and the dimensions as 28 feet by 30 feet, two stories high The basement was to be full size and 7Y2 feet deep In order to build this ne«er house, he had to move an older house at 309 W Chuichill Street to another place on the lots 73 Next door, at 908 S Fifth Street, Charles Glaser built a second house in the winter of 1911, this one to cost $1,800 00 with dimensions of 26 feet by 30 feet, two -stories high Both of Glaser's houses were built on speculation, that is, to sell to a third party 74 Fred Pankonin and his wife, Teresa, both Prussian born, built their house at 909 S Fifth Street about 1881 The purchased the north Y2 of Lot 25 and all of Lot 26, Block 12, from Elizabeth Churchill in June of 1881, and in August of that same year, they took out a mortgage from the Stillwater Building Assocation Fred worked as a mill hand, they had two daughters Lizzie and Anna 76 Henry Roettger bought Lot 4, Block 11, from Elizabeth Churchill in August of 1874 He built a house on his lot that took the number, 912 S Fifth Street, valued at $600 00 by the tax assessor Two years later, he sold his lot to Jacob Bean, a wealthy mill proprietor The following year, Bean bought the adjacent Lot 5 from Elizabeth Churchill 76 72 1877 1881 82 1884 Stillwater City Directories Z Deeds 440 1880 Census #173 73 City of Stillwater Building Permit #1462 74 City of Stillwater Building Permit #1444 76 8 Deeds 295 P Mtgs 488 1880 Census #165 SAM 5 Roll 6 1887 Stillwater City Directory 76 SAM 7 Roll 4 Z Deeds 389 432 I Deeds 302 1877 Stillwater City Directory 34 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition The Mame born Rufus E Goff and his Minnesota born wife, Josephine had the dwelling at 913 S Fifth Street built about 1880 Goff purchased Lot 24 from Emma Marsh in the summer of 1879 In 1888, a local carpenter, R W Phelps, made a 1 1/2 story, 14 x 20 foot bedroom addition to the original 1 1/2 story 14 x 20 foot building Before adding the addition, Phelps also moved the original house 16 feet west on the lot In 1910, Goff had another 12 a 12 one story addition constructed by Frank Lmneroth Rufus was listed m the 1890-91 Stillwater City Directory as a lumberman 77 Emma Marsh sold the Danish born Peter Jackson and his wife Celia, lots 6 & 7 m Block 11 in November of 1879 But by the time he received his Warranty Deed, he had already been living in his house at 920 S Fifth Street for two years But Jackson a as not one to stay In August of 1880, the property was sold to Mary H Allen, who, m 1886, had a 20 foot by 8-foot kitchen added to the house 133 Ely B Woodard —who is listed in the 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory as a barber} In March of 1889, Allen sold the property to Anna Tobisch, a midwife 78 , Edward and Catharine McFarlane had the house at 921 S Fifth Street btult in the early 1880's 79 The Irish born Morris and Marti Quinlan and their son, John, were the first residents of 1002 S Fifth Street, which they had built in 1877 Two years later, they received their Warranty Deed from Emma Marsh Morris was fisted as a gardener, considering the location of their house at this time, I would guess this to mean he raised produce —probably to sell in the city But perhaps the house was not as rural as he wished, for ui 1881, he sold the land to Robert Carter, who in turn sold it to William Brigan 80 Louis Avery built a large home at 1003 S Fifth Street about 1882 The following year, he received his Warranty Deed from Elizabeth Churchill James Avery is listed as the resident of the house in the Stillwater City Directories 81 1008 S Fifth Street is reported to have been built m 1906 No further information seems to be available 77 5 Deeds 449, City of Stillwater Building Pernut #369 #1404 SAM 5 Roll 6 1880 Census #168 78 SAM 7 Roll 6 5 Deeds 270 5 Deeds 549 28 Deeds 235 City of Stillwater Building Permit #62 1880 Census # 166 79 21 Deeds 334 1884 & 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory 8o SAM 7 Roll 6 1880 Census #166 1881 82 Stillwater City Directory 5 Deeds 146 8 Deeds 101 12 Deeds 2 81 7 Deeds 184 SAM 5 Ro11 6 1884 & 1887 Stillwater City Directories 35 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Marcel Gagnon appears to be living in 1016 S Fifth Street as early as 1877, three years after he purchased Lots 12, 13, & 14, Block 11 He is listed as a florist and a gardener, and apparently he had a greenhouse either on this property or close by Born in Canada, he was, at least in 1880, a single man of 53 living with the Edward Bell and George Gerard families But some disaster must have occurred around 1894 because Marcel moved to Tacoma, Washington, and a new $1,000 00 home was built on Lot 12 by Michael Carroll, a Stillwater carpenter on behalf of Eugene Savage, a janitor at Central High School who is listed as living at 1008 S Fifth Street Given the occasional mistakes on the old records, it might be possible that the building permit for Lot 12 (1016 S Fifth Street) is really the building permit for Lot 11 (1008 S Fifth Street), which would etplam why there is no information on 1008 S Fifth Street 82 Lot 14, Block 11 was one of the three lots purchased by Marcel Gagnon in 1874 at which time the assessor's i ecords indicate a considerable $600 improvement on it Who actually lived in the house which took the number 1020 S Fifth Sti eet is uncertain although Gagnon continued to be the iecorded owner of the property until he sold it to John Hines ui October of 1883 Hines was listed as a laborer 83 After the Second World War, in a tune of expansion for Stillwater, there were several houses built on S Fifth Street 805 S Fifth Street was built in 1947, replacing the earlier home of the Swiss born Henry Hefty, a butcher with a local grocery store 84 Two newer houses were built at 808 S Fifth Street and 811 Fifth Street in 1948 replacing at least one earlier home there that had, for a time, the house number 733 S Fifth Street It was the house of the Prussian born Hohlt Gotheb, a teamster 85 812 and 816 S Fifth Street, two new houses built in 1965 replaced the old Edward and Ellen Yorks house which had been built about 1872 86 1013 S Fifth Street was built in 1956 on what appears to have been an empty lot An older home was moved from this Lots 15 and 16, Block 12 m 1899 which allowed the construction of 1019 S Fifth Street in 1948 87 In 1980, 801 S Fifth Street was constructed on what had been a vacant lot 82 1877 1890 91 1894 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #164 City of Stillwater Building Permit #818 83 12 Deeds 475 SAM 7 Roll 4 1877 & 1881 82 Stillwater City Directories 84 1877 1887 Stillwater City Directories, 5 Deeds 376, 1880 Census #177 86 1881 1894 Stillwater City Directories 5 Deeds 405 1880 Census #175 86 I Deeds 370 SAM 7 Roll 3 X Deeds 628 1887 Stillwater City Directory 87 City of Stillwater Building Permit #974 36 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition SIXTH STREET HOUSES Ayoung man b3 the improbable name of Elephalet Goff, and his wife, Mary, were the first residents of 715 S Sixth Street He was born in 1849 in Illinois, she was born in 1851 in Indiana They had two children, Bertha and Fred They bought Lot 31, Block 6 in her name in September of 1878, and a year later they bought a second lot, 32, in his name It appears they had this home built in 1878 Elephalet worked in the lumber business 88 The home at 719 S Sixth Street was built in 1879, possibly by Samuel Packard, a bridge tender The assessed valuation was approximately $390 It was a simple one and one half story house, four rooms, with a partial basement, and, an elegant touch for workingman's house, a bay on the north side In July of 1882, Packard sold the property to Edward J and Emma Davis (He was also known as James E Davis) In 1892, under new owners, John and Jessie Sinclair, a 14-foot by 18 foot ell was added on the south side, and the interior woodwork updated By 1903, the house had passed into the possession of Mrs Zona Doyle, a teacher at the Central School 89 It appears the house at 720 S Sixth Street was built about 1874 by Daruel McQuillan who owned a saloon and billiards hall on Main Street in downtown Stillwater In the first Stillwater City Directory published m 1877, McQuillan is fisted as living on Sixth, south of Goodwood (Willard) This is apparently another case of using unrecorded documents on a piece of property in this Addition, for the first official record of the property is a deed from Elizabeth Churchill to James Fowler, Jr in Juh of 1881 Fowler, a young man of 24, his wife, Eliza, and their year -old son Sanford were natives of New York State Although he listed his occupation as chemist, Fowler had taken an entrepreneurial bent in Stillwater operung a furniture store on N Main Street in downtown Stillwater Business must have not been good, for he soon sold their house to Ange Christianson, who in turn, sold it to Joseph Eichten, who, in his turn, sold it to John Pretzel in 1890 Pretzel was a cooper (barrel maker) who worked for the Joseph Wolf brewery 90 The German born Jacob Laun, and his Ohio wife, Annie, built a small home at 723 S Sixth Street about 1877 Laun is listed in the Stillwater 88 12 Deeds 238 239 SAM 7 Roll 7 1877 1887 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #185 89 5 Deeds 527 10 Deeds 299 31 Deeds 612 56 Deeds 532 Citt of Stillwater Building Permit #659 SAM 7 Roll 8 Stillwater City Directories 90 8 Deeds 316 365 368 7 Deeds 103 31 Deeds 120 1880 Census #192 SAM 7 Roll 1877 1881 82 1890 91 Stillwater City Directories 37 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson &. Slaughter's Adchtton City Directory of 1884 as a peddler Perhaps it was a hazardous occupation m 1880, Jacob was 34 years old, ten years later, his wife is listed as a widow 91 John Henry Lohmann, Jr, and his wife, Augusta Lohmann purchased Lot 12, Block 7 from from Elizabeth Churchill in Sept 1882 The built a modest $500 home which took the number, 802 S Sixth Street Lohmann briefly ran a saloon on the S Main Street 92 In July of 1876, Tobias Ambuhl purchased Lot 27, Block 6, from Elizabeth Churchill He immediately set out to have a house built at 805 S Sixth Street with much of the labor done by his neighbors Herman Steinhorst, a carpenter who lived at 712 S Fifth Street, did much of the basic construction John Millbrook, a mason living at 804 S Fifth Street, did the lath and plaster and the chimney for the house We know this today because both of these workmen filed hens against the house Steinhorst for $65 00, Millbrook foi $133 55 Ambuhl, a mill hand for Hersey, Bean & Brown , sold the house to Alexander Bradley two years later 93 There was an earlier house on Lots 25 and 26, Block 6 in the location of today's 809 S Sixth Street However it appears that the present house at this address is a later house built near the turn of the century In 1872, Churchill sold the two lots to Frederick Bennecke who apparently built a house on the lots They were subsequently sold to Henry C & Mattie Pierce, a guard at the prison In 1884, the Pierces sold to Joseph & Roma Remmele 94 Shenanda E Bradley, a 42 year old woman from New York State purchased Lot 14 from Elizabeth Churchill in April of 1872 The tax assessor making his rounds that year made a pencil notation S E Bradley, lot=$60, house=$300, a notation marking the construction of 810 S Sixth Street Two years later, E B Bradley purchased Lot 13 from Churchill The 1877 Stillwater City Directory hsts an A B Bradley, teamster, living on 6th N of Churchill But the 1880 Census lists Shenanda Bradley as living with the family of John Starkwhether, a carpenter, his wife, Mary, and their three children Two years later, the Stillwater City Directory lists a Mrs E B Bradley as residing at 732 S Sixth Street, ahich was the original house number for this house By 1887, the Stillwater City Directory lists Mrs E 91 SAM 7 Roll 6 1880 Census #187 1877 1884 1890 91 Stillwater City Directories 5 Deeds 599 28 Deeds 54 92 SAM 78 Roll 12 7 Deeds 139 1884 Stillwater City Directory 93 Z Deeds 388 5 Deeds 41 A Liens 146, 147, SAM 7, Roll 6, 1877, 1881 82 Stillwater City Directories 94 SAM 7 Roll 3 X Deeds 207 Z Deeds 213 10 Deeds 15 12 Deeds 437 1880 Census #190 1882 1884 Stillwater City Directories 38 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's 4ddttion B Bradley living at 810 S Sixth Street Without a fair amount of additional research, it is impossible to know if Shenanda E Bradley was nn fact, the wife of E B Bradley 96 The records are confused and conflicting regarding the house at 813 S Sixth Street, and I cannot reach any conclusions 814 S Sixth Street was built in the summer of 1872 We know that because Julius Lippert, a cook, who bought the property that same summer, had a hen filed against him by Phillip Mueller Mueller claimed Lippert owed him $118 75 because he worked " 1st and last days of July 1872 making, constructing, altering & repairing a certain dwelling house " It seems Lippert had given Mueller $50 00 in cash and a promissory note (unpaid) for the remainder of his bill Two years later, Lippert sold the property to a Swiss butcher, John Neideren, and his Prussian born wife, Annie, who lived there with their five children Edward, John, Ulrich, another son Rosa, and a sister un law Lippert meanwhile moved the house behind, 813 S Seventh Street 96 902 S Sixth Street is small Queen Anne house built on the site of an earlier house Stillwater City Building Permit #1592 gives us the information that 908 S Sixth Street was built m the sprung of 1915 The owner of the property who had the house built was J Ernest Blanke who lived — and continued to live — in the neighborhood at 1017 S Seventh Street The pernut lists the cost of the house at $1,500 00, and the dimensions of the building as 26 feet by 32 feet, one -and a half stones 911 S Sixth Street was, according to Stillwater City Building Permit #2209, built m the sprmg of 1928 by the owner of the property, Herman Millarch, a painter According to the building permit, the cost was to be $570 01t The dimensions were 20 feet 133 22 feet deep with ten foot studs, giving a maximum height of 18 feet The house was to have a fireproof slate roof, and the ground floors were to be of oak Why was the price so low there is a note on the pernut that Herman will "build it my self" This Greek Revival house at 916 S Sixth Street was built in 1872 when the tax assessor, making his yearly rounds, made a note about a new house "back of Jackman " The value of the house was set at $500, meaning it 95 T Deeds 725 Z Deeds 241 1880 Census #194 se X Deeds 77 A Liens 91 SAM 7 Roll 3 1880 Census #195 1887 1890 91 Stillwater City Directories 39 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson &, Slaughter's AddilLon was a substantial house Elizabeth G and Harvey Ferguson bought Lot 5, Block 10 from Churchill in November, 1872, and Lot 6, Block 10 in December, 1874 Both Harvey and Elizabeth were natives of New Brunswick, following the lumber trade west Harvey was a river pilot They had two children Maggie and Harvey, Jr 97 August Arndt bought Lots 22 and 23, Block 11, in October of 1880 He built a modest house soon after wards which took the number 919 S Sixth Street August and his wife, Augusta, were born ui Prussia They had three boys John, Clement, and Paul August was a shoemaker 98 William Zorn purchased Lots 7 and 8, Block 10 from Frasier Ferguson in March of 1882 Zorn soon after built a small house on his lots which took the number, 922 S Sixth Street 99 Mrs Melvina Fox, a nudwife, had the home at 923 S Sixth Street built about 1882, although she did actually receive a deed to the property until March of 1883 The 1880 Census, # 201, hsts the following household which included Melvina Melvina Fox, 48, b Kentucky, hying with Thomas Malone, 29, son, and Mary his wife, 25, and Henry, son, and his wife Nora, 19, and Matilda, her daughter and Mary Sunberg, 19, daughter, James Sunberg, 17, son, Sarah Sunberg, 15, daughter, Ida Sunberg, 12, a daughter, and grandchildren Henry, Thomas, Mauna, Robert, James, Ida, Edv, ard, Henry, and Ann In the same house were also David Sinclair, 25, wife Sarah, 19, and their one child, Amy, aged one month 10o Josiah Millet, who was born about 1836 in Maine, appears to have been a man of many talents He is listed in various places as a bookkeeper, an explorer, and a Master of the Boom Whatever his many talents, we know that he and his wife, Clara, and their six children were the first residents of 1004 S Sixth Street which they had built in 1875 Many years later, in 1932, local carpenter, Emil Bieging, was hired to make repairs after fire damage 101 In July of 1922, Robert Schmoeckel applied for City of Stillwater building permit #1901 to have contractor, Henry J Mohr, build him a house at 1007 S Sixth Street The cost was to be $3,000 00 It was to be a two 97 SAM 7 Roll 3 X Deeds 191 Z Deeds 606 1880 Census #199 1877, 1881 82 1887 Stillwater City Directories 98 5 Deeds 613 1882 1887 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #200 99 SAM 78, Roll 14 12 Deeds 266 1884 1887 Stillwater City Directory 199 4 Deeds 591 ioi SAM 7 Roll 5 5 Deeds 442 1877 Stillwater City Directory, 1880 Census #206 City of Stillwater Building Permit #2356 40 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition story house, 26-feet by 28 feet, with wood floors and a foundation five feet above the ground Henry was a carpenter who hved on W Ohve Street James and Henrietta Webster purchased Lot 11, Block 10 in August 1902 Although there don't seem to be any records remaining, it appears they built 1010 S Sixth Street soon afterwards James is hsted in the Stillwater City Directory as a painter 102 It appears Albert Schmoeckel had the house at 1015 S Sixth Street built about 1883 when he took out a mortgage on the property Albert and his wife, Augusta, were both born in Prussia, they had four children Albert, Minnie, Robert and Emma Albert was a stone mason 103 The house at 1020 S Sixth Street was built about 1878 when Emma Marsh deeded Lot 14, Block 10 to Joseph Arndt in January 1878 Arndt worked as a butcher for a local grocer When Thomas and Kate Ratican built their home m May of 1882 at 1021 S Sixth Street, he did not pay the St Croix Lumber Company the $101 74 worth of lumber they furnished him — at least not until the lumber company filed a hen against his property Four years later he took out a City of Stillwater building permit to replace his old porch, and make $ 7 5 00 worth of improvements To do the work, he hired Michael Carroll, carpenter hving on S Main Street who had done other construction in the neighborhood Ratican was a lumberman from eastern Canada following the lumber trade as it moved west The Raticans had four children 104 In 1990, a new home was built at 1016 S Sixth Street on a lot which was once the site of an earher home In 1961, a newer house was constructed at 1002 S Sixth Street on what appears to be a previously vacant lot REMINISCENCES In his reminiscence of Stillwater in the 1880' and '90's, Albert Caplazi wrote in 1944 "Other early residents of Stillwater were Levi Thompson who lived on the northeast corner of Churchill and 6th Streets [322 W Churchill] John and Leif Goff, [722 S 6th St ] John 102 48 Deeds 410 103 1880 Census #204 1877 1890 Stillwater City Directories 104 1880 Census #207 City of Stillwater Building Permit #36 A Liens 307 41 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Niederer, [814 S 6th St ] Jake Laun, [723 S 6th St ] Poly Patwell [621 W Churchill] and others lived on 6th north of Churchill — south of Churchill were Jim Davis, [319 W Churchill] Sunberg, [823 S 6th St ] Cates, [1016 S 6th St ] Millet, [1004 S 6th St ] Ferguson, [1020 S 6th St ] Schmoekel [1015 S 6th St ] and others Phillip McDermott lived on the north east corner of Churchill [424 W Churchill] before he built a residence on 4th Ave [1312 4th Ave So ] which later passed to Martin Powers Others on 7th north of Churchill were McGrath (Ikirs McDermott's parents) on the north west corner of Churchill and 7th [502 W Churchill], Keyes [818 S 7th St ], McNally [722 S 7th St ], Compke [Collopy, 812 S 7th St ], and others south of Churchill St on 7th were Johnson [421 W Churchill], Arndt [913 S 7th St ], Zorn [921 S 7th St ], and others On Holcombe south of Churchill were Garbe [1001 S Holcombe], Julius Loeber, Sr [917 S Holcombe], Wm Huser [921 S Holcombe], Jim Doyle [516 W Hancock] and others Churchill between 4th and 5th was called Caton s Hill after Mr Caton who lived on the south east corner of Churchill and 5th [219 W Churchill] Early residents of 5th south of Churchill were Rufus Goff [913 S 5th St ], Quinlan [1002 S 5th St ], Gagnon the green houseman [1016 S 5th St ], Pankonin [909 S 5th St ] and others Lumber and labor was cheap in the '70's & '80's It is said Conrad Drechsler who operated the Casino Saloon on the north east corner of Chestnut and Union built a fine large residence on the northwest corner of Willard and 5th in the late seventies for $2,200 Herman Steinhorst was the builder [Stemhorst also built 805 S 6th St ] A M Dodd lived on the south west corner of Willard and 5th at that time Charles Lustig lived there later [313 W Willard] Many families kept a cow or two in the seventies and early eighties There was lots of free pasture, from Hancock St south to Oak Park and Highway 212 and west to Lily Lake was nearly all woods There was no herd law, cows could run at large They would be turned out in the morning and come home in the evening to be milked About that time to the late seventies City Clerk E A Hopkins built the fourth house south of Willard Street on the west side of 4th and while he lived there his cow gave birth to four calves all alive all white with red ears and nose They were pretty calves, but Mr Hopkins was an 42 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition inexperienced cow man, gave the calves too much rope They got tangled up in the ropes and hung themselves Mr Hopkins later built the middle house on the west side of 1st between Hancock and Burlington Streets and lived there At that time Elliots on the northwest corner [1022 S 4th St ] and Day's on the northeast corner of 4th and Hancock streets were the last houses on 4th street The road ran from there diagonally to the race track [Athletic Field today] and on down through the woods to Oak Park From Hancock St south to Fairview Cemetery and from 4th street west to Holcombe St was forty acres of woods, which was cleared, broken and sowed to grain in the late seventies It was called Marsh's Field Mrs Marsh was Betsey Nelson [actually it was Emma Nelson], the daughter of Socrates nelson who owned much of the land in that vicinity At that time in the evening you could hear the Whipporwill and other night birds which are not heard any more The South Hill from Willard to Hancock was called Nelson s field after Socrates nelson who owned the land in 1872 filbert Caplazi built a house on the southwest corner of Fourth and Willard [704/706 S 4th St ] and at one time had a dairy of about 15 cows, until the herd law went into effect about 1885 when the cows were not allowed to run at large, many in the neighborhood came and got their milk fresh at milking time, morning and evening Other early residents of South 4th St were DeStaffent [710 S 4th St], where Joe Giossi lives now City clerk E A Hopkins, Mealy [802 S 4th St ], Crimmins, Barry [810 S 4th St ] Goodman [816 S 4th St ], Le Moine [826 S 4th St ], Elliot [1022 S 4th St ], Sinclair [719 S 4th St], Barrow [Barron, 801 S 4th St ], Ktlty [807 S 4th St ], Ward White, Crowley [921 S 4th St ], McGee, Sutherland [1009 S 4th St ], Day, Carroll [924 S 4th St] and others The early residents on 5th were Dodd [313 W Willard], Steinhorst [712 S 5th St ], Giossi [718 S Fifth St ], Millbrook [804 S 5th St ], Yorks [house gone], Packard [824 S 5th St], Morgan [807 S 5th St ], Rensch [805 S 5th St ], Collins [715 S 5th St ], Hardyman, Kinsella, and others Mike Kinsella had a store on Willard 43 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Oct 10, 1875, a fine October Sunday about noon there was made a wing shot that don't happen very often, a large flock of geese were flying North, they were high, so high they appeared about the size of a two months old chick A Mr Roettger lived in the third house from the southwest corner of Churchill and 5th [912 S 5th St ] He shot at those geese twice from his door step, when they got half way between Churchill and Willard over 5th a goose turned and headed south, she held there a moment and then she began to tumble over and over she went and struck a fence and broke the top one by six inch fence board edgewise back of where Hooley s meat market is now, corner of 4th & Churchill It was surprising the size of that goose, they looked so small in the air She was dark colored and weighed about ten pounds It was quite a sight to see that goose come tumbling down from such a height The Irish Church [St Michael's] had just let out so it attracted a large crown Mr Roettger later moved to a farm in Wisconsin between Houlton and Somerset A terrible thing happened between the Irish Church and Hooley's butcher shop on Sunday about noon late in November in the late eighties Mr Ratican living on the northeast corner of 6th & Hancock [1021 S 6th St] bought a team of horses for the woods They were large, young and frisky They were being led to water George Ratican about 12 year old, was leading one of the horses He had learned from some one who worked at the boom to make a hitch which they used to tie logs together He made a hitch around his wrist There was a water fountain in the triangle at 4th, Willard and Locust but the water was shut off tor the winter, so they had to go down on 3rd at the head of Chestnut on the way back just as they got in front of St Michael's Church the bell struck 12 o'clock —church out, the horse bolted and started to run the boy couldn't hold him and he couldn't let go as he was hitched to the end of the halter rope The horse turned on Locust down 4th running away with the boy dangling at the end of the halter rope when the horse turned on Churchill the boy's brains were spattered on the sidewalk and the side of Hooley's Meat Market on the S W corner of 4th and Churchill " In 1885, another principal in the Churchill & Nelson business died Betsey Nelson, the wife of Socrates, died on October 8th She left her estate totaling $5921 64 to be divided among her three grandchildren 105 106 Will of Betsey D Nelson #854 Washington County Probate Office 44 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition SEVENTH STREET HOUSES here is a note in the tax assessor s records for 1875 ` Carl Zanke JL paying" indicating that, although there were no recorded deeds, apparently Zanke was paying the taxes on the property From the assessor s records m 1880, it appears he built a small house, which eventually took the number, 702 S Seventh Street In March of 1887, Churchill finally gave lum a deed to the property, and in June of 1889, he sold the house and property to Henry Hefty Zanke does not appear in the Stillwater City directories and I have no further information on him The history of 702 and 706 S Seventh Street are combined because both are a part of Lots 1 & 2 Block 8 The early records only seem to record one house on the two lots, but it is difficult to say for sure In June of 1889, Carl Zanke (who owned all of both lots) sold them to Henry Hefty In 1899, Hefty sold the south part of the lots to Theodore Erhtz, and in 1900, Hefty sold the north part of the lots to John Luchsmger 715 S Seventh and 719 S Seventh Streets have a confusing history 715 is on Lots 32 and 33, Block 7, 719 is on Lots 30 and 31, Block 7 From the records, we know that in 1872, Lizzie and Henry Rhemer had an unrecorded contract of some kind for all four lots, and there was a $300 house on the property I would assume that house eN entually took either the number 715 or 719 S Seventh Street, but I have no way of knowing which was the first house on the four lot parcel In 1879, Lizzie and Henry actually received the deed from Churchill to the four lots The Rheiners then sold the four lots to a man by the name of August Domke The next record we have is a building permit taken out by Juhus Sierbencch for an addition to a house on Lots 32 and 33 (715 S Seventh) That was in 1888, and the permit is for a kitchen addition to an existing house that 20 by 28 feet, one —and -a half stones high 106 The home at 720 S Seventh Street was built in 1877 by natives of Maine, Annie and Michael McLean He worked for a time at the Hersey, Bean & Brown lumber null below the bluff on S Main Street The original house was quite small with an assessed valuation of around $200 1°7 George F Allen sold Lot 11, and the N 10 feet of Lot 12, Block 8, to George and Amy McNally in November of 1874, and it appears they built the home at 722 S Seventh Street on the lots soon afterwards Both George 108 SAM 7 Roll 3 5 Deeds 88 8 Deeds 236 City of Stillwater Building Permit #326 107 SAM 7 Roll 6 8 Deeds 269 1877 & 1890 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #231 45 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson &. Slaughter's Addition and Amy a ere natives of New Brunswick, and at one point in time, they had three boarders m their residence, all of them also from New Brunswick He was born in 1830, she was born in 1831 By 1890, George was dead, and Amy was living in the house as a widow 108 August Weideman, a laborer, bought Lot 29 from Frank Domke in 1883 At some time either before or after his purchase, he built his home at 725 S Seventh Street 109 George Allen bought the lots where 726 S Seventh Street stands today from Churchill & Nelson in 1873 It appears he built this house there m 1878 Allen is listed as a laborer m the Stillwater City Directories, and he lived at this address foi at least the first twenty years 110 A handwritten note on the 1871 assessor's entry for Lots 27 and 28, Block 7 reads "Domke's house" and it assigns a value of $200 to the building which today has the number, 731 S Seventh Street August Domke was a mill hand at the Hersey Bean Mill on S Main Street ill William or Wilhelm Stack, a stone mason, purchased Lot 25 & 26, Block 7 from Churchill & Nelson in August of 1872, and he quickly built a house there which today has the number, 811 S Seventh Street The assessor put the value of this first house at $300 112 The first resident of 812 S Seventh Street was Thomas and Mary Collopy, natives of Ireland They received their deed from Churchill in Nov of 1871 about the same time they built their home Within a short time, Thomas seems to have died or disappeared, and Mary was left to raise their three children, Ella, Thomas and John, by herself 113 The home at 817 S Seventh Street was apparently built about 1875 by Heinrich Wagner, a laborer By 1882, the property had passed to Frederick Webber, a mason and plasterer At one time this had the number 743 S Seventh Street 114 Dennis Keyes, a carpenter, purchased Lots 17 & 18, Block 8, from Churchill in June of 1871 The tax assessors records a house worth $200 on 108 Z Deeds 144 Y Deeds 328 1877 & 1890 Stillwater City Directones 1880 Census #230 109 12 Deeds 103 Stillwater City Directory for 1884 110 Z Deeds 144 SAM 7 Roll 7 1877 1891 Stillwater City Directones 111 Z Deeds 243 1877 1884 Stillwater City Directory 112 X Deeds 128 1877 Stillwater City Directory 113 SAM 78 Roll 8 1877 & 1887 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #227 114 1884 & 1890 Stillwater City Directories X Deeds 454 456 10 Deeds 527 46 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson &. Slaughter's Addition the lots by 1872 Today that building has the number, 818 S Ses enth Street 115 Thomas Levi was the apparent builder of the house at 911 S Seventh Street Although his purchase of the property is not recorded until 1876, it appears he built this house in 1874 Seven years later, he sold the property to John Sheehan, a laborer who lived there for several years It appears this house once had the number 909 S Seventh Street In March of 1884, Joseph and Annie Arndt bought Lots 24 and 25, Block 10 from Elizabeth Churchill In 1886, the tax assessor added a value of $600 to the two lots indicating a house which took the number, 913 S SeN enth Street bad been btult Joseph was a native of Canada, Annie was from Prussia The couple had six children Mary, 17, Frank, 14, John, 13, daughter, 9, Albert, 4, Lilly 2 The 1887 Stillwater City Directory hsts him living at this address, his occupation is fisted as cooper (barrel maker) 116 August and Henrietta Batke (or Bardkey) were natives of Prussia In 1885, they bought Lot 5, Block 9, and about 1891, built a small house there which took the number, 916 S Seventh Street They had five children Enul, William, Amelia, Emma, Edna August is fisted as a laborer in the City Directory In 1876, local magnate, Isaac Staples, filed a hen of $43 25 for "building materials" against the property of Margaret Warner who lived at what is today the site of 918 S Seventh Street This hen would seem to indicate that at least the beginnings of what is today 918 S Seventh Street had taken place in 1876 The 1881 Stillwater City Directory hsts Warner, Mrs M [resides] 7th bet Churchill & Hancock 117 Emil Zorn purchased Lots 22 and 23, Block 10 from Churchill & Nelson in August of 1873 The tax assessor's records indicate he must have built a small house which took the number, 921 S Seventh Street, on his lots soon thereafter In March of 1876, he sold the property to John & Anna Warmann John is fisted in the 1877 Stillwater City Directory as working for Isaac Staples and living on 7th S of Churchill The property, which is the site of 922 S Seventh Street was bought and sold 7 times between 1872 and 1886 Finally in September of 1886, 115 SAM 5 Roll 2, 1877 & 1887 Stillwater City Directories T Deeds 480 116 7 Deeds 236 1880 Census #208 SAM 5 Roll 8 117 19 Deeds 44 A Liens 176 47 The West One Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Bertha and Emil Keitzmann bought the property and the house and stayed there He was a carpenter 118 (See also 924 S Seventh Street) 923 S Seventh Stieet was built m 1877 by Michael and Wilhelmina Zorn, both immigrants from Prussia Michael was born in 1815, his wife was five years younger He worked as a mill hand at the Hersey, Bean & Brown mill on S Maur Street until he retired m the 1880's His son, William, and his wife, Emma, and their granddaughter, Ida, as well as his son, Herman, lived with them in the house 119 Bertha and Emil Keitzmann appear to have been the first residents of 924 S Seventh Sti eet, at least they are fisted as the residents in the 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory They purchased three lots, 7,8, & 9 in September of 1886 At some point, those three lots were divided among two houses The present house with the number 924 S Seventh Street was built about 1920 It either replaced Keitzmann's earlier house, or Keitzmann's earlier house took the later number 922 S Seventh Street when the present 924 S Seventh was built m 1920 However, in checking the Stillwater City Directories, I find that the Keitzmanns fined at 924 S Se' enth from 1919 to 1928 120 John Sprich purchased Lots 10 and 11, Block 9 in 1881 at which time it appears a small home, 1006 S Seventh Street, was built on the lot The 1890-91 Stillwater city directory lists, Adolph Sprich, a carpenter, as living at this address In 1924, local carpenter, Frank Lipner, constructed a $700 addition to the house 121 Gustav and Amelia Tollas, both born in Prussia, purchased Lots 18 and 19, Block 10, from Elizabeth Churchill in September of 1890 It appears he built his house at 1009 S Seventh Street very soon afterwards for he is listed as living there in the 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory The couple had seven children Augusta, Laura, Frederick, George, Charles, Nina, and Amelia Gustav worked as a plasterer The family had lived m the neighborhood previously at 833 S Seventh Street 122 1013 S Seventh Street is listed in the Washington County Assessor's office as being built m 1912 118 19 Deeds 161 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory 119 10 Deeds 156 SAM 7 Ro11 6 1877 & 1887 Stillwater City Directories 1880 Census #216 12° X Deeds 164 10 Deeds 593, 19 Deeds 161 City of Stillwater Building Permit #2704 121 1 Deeds 472 8 Deeds 167 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory City of Stillwater building Permit#2035 12231 Deeds 218 1880 Census #217 48 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson 8 Slaughter's Addition 1014 S Seventh Street is hsted in the Washington County Assessor's Office as being built m 1920 In May of 1895, Ernest and Christian Blanke had William Hall build them a $750 house wluch took the number, 1017 S Seventh Street In March of 1919, 24 years later, J E Blanke too out a building permit to construct a 20 x 22 foot barn on his Lot 15 The barn was to be "built complete of old lumber from a building torn down " It is not clear, but possibly this barn was built from the remains of the 1895 house, for in July of 1921, Blanke took out another building permit to construct a 22 Y 28 1-1/2 story dwelling on the adjacent Lot 16 The cost of the buulding, which remains today, is hsted on the permit as being $2500 123 The history of the dwelling at 1018 S Seventh Street is confusing and uncertain About the only fact that is certain 1s that by 1890, Herman Zorn was the owner and resident of the house 124 After the Second World War in a time of expansion for Stillwater, 714 S Seventh Street was built m 1949 on what appears to have a vacant lot 815 S Seventh Street was built in 1975 HANCOCK STREET HOUSES 20 W Hancock and 516 W Hancock Street sere built m 1964 For CP whatever reasons, there have never been many houses fronting on the north side of W Hancock Street HOLCOMBE STREET HOUSES Accorchng to Judy & Tyler Smith who were kind enough to call me, their home at 611 S Holcombe Street was moved to this location around 1964 when they were building Highway 280 in the midway district of St Paul/Minneapolis It appears that the home at 615 S Holcombe Street was built about 1880 by Luella Tuttle The Tuttle family owned qtute a bit of property in this area of the city 123 City of Stillwater Building Permits #853 #1709 #1837 Stillwater City Directory for 1898 124 The 1890 91 Stillwater City Directory 30 Deeds 37 49 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition 701 S Holcombe and 913 S Holcombe Street were built after the Second World War, the former m 1955 and the latter m 1948 Almeda Tuttle purchased Lots 24 28, Block 8 in 1880, and it appears, built a house around the turn of the century which today has the number, 705 S Holcombe The Tuttle family lived at 601 W Abbott, but owned considerable property in the neighborhood 126 August Loeber, a Prussian immigrant, and lus wife, Oteha built the home at 917 S Holcombe Street about 1874 Loeber worked as a clerk for one of the lumber companies The3 lived m the house for more than to o decades 126 William and Catherine Huser purchased Lots 20 & 21, Block 9 from Albert Zinke in April of 1874 About that tune he built the house that remains at 921 S Holcombe Sti eet Huser is fisted in the Stillwater City Directory for 1877 as a teamster Ten 3 ears later, only his wife is fisted as living at this address 127 Alexander Albert Garbe bought Lot 19 from Chuichill & Nelson in September of 1872, and, according to the tax assessor's records, he built his dwelling which today has the number, 1001 S Holcombe Street, soon afterwards Two years later, he bought the second lot, #20, of the two lots which make up this property Garbe and his family lived in this residence for more than two decades 125 WILLARD STREET HOUSES The story of 215 and 219 W Willard Street is unclear In the December 13, 1870 Stillwater Gazette, there is a citywide list of improvements meant to bolster the image of the city Under residences, there is a note "M Kinsella, foundation for residence $1000" The following year, m the November 14, 1871 Stillwater Gazette, there is an additional note Fourth Street, M Kinsella, $500 Michael and Bridget Kinsella were building on Lots 28, 29, and 30, Block 5 which would be on the south side of Willard, between S Fourth and S Fifth Streets On these three lots, the Kinsella's had both a house and a store, which may —or may not —have occupied the same building The 1877 Stillwater City Directory fists "Kinsella, Michael, grocer, cor 5th & Goodwood, res Same" [Goodwood was the first name of Willard Street ] In December of 1878, Michael Kinsella died 126 4 Deeds 319 126 Z Deeds 36 1880 Census #239 Stillwater City Directories 1877 & 1884 SAM 7 Roll 4 127 SAM 7 Roll 4 X Deeds 565 566 128 SAM 7, Roll 3 X Deeds 105 593 1877 & 1884 Stillwater City Directories 50 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition m his store and his obituary was in the Stillwater Gazette, December 25, 1878 His store at Willard and Fifth Streets was in "what is known as Nelson's Field ' In 1878, the assessed valuation of the three lots, including any buildings on them, was $1800, indicating either one very large house, or two modest structures The 1879 Bird's Eye View Map indicates two buildings on the lots The question then becomes what is the relationslup between these early buildings, and the houses at 215 and 219 W Willard that are there today In June of 1902, a building pernut for a $700 house to be built on Lot 30 was issued by the city The owner (but not the occupant) was J Ernest Blanke who hved at 1017 S Seventh Street The builder was E Hall of Lindstrom The building was to be 22 fiont feet and 30 feet deep, one -and a half story While today, 219 W Willard is a story and a half house, the present owner tells me that it had originall3 been a two story house Thus neither residence really fits the description in the building permit, but then sometimes the building permits had the wrong lot numbers on them It is appealing —at least to us historians —to think that perhaps some part of Kinsella's store, the first in the area, built 132 years ago, remains in either 215 or 219 W Willard Street But unless some new evidence comes to light, we will probably never know for sure 305 W Willard Street was built in 1957 Frank Schwartz, a mill laborer, had local builder, William Bieging, build him a dwelling, 18 x 26 feet, 1 1/2 story, with a cost of $450 in April of 1887 This house took the number, 409 W Willard Street There was an older 1870's house just to the east with the number 401 W Willard which is not gone 129 It appears there was a small house at 415 W Willard Street as early as 1877 The 1877 Stillwater City Directory hsts "Henry & Hannah Gabbert, lab, res Goodwood, e 7th" The 1881 82 Stillwater City Directory hsts "Theodore Reynolds, coachman, E L Hersey, r Willard bet 6th & 7th" By 1887, there is a third resident of the house "Anton Wesestra, lab, res 415 W Willard" In May of 1885, Churchill sold the lots on which 421 W Willard Street stood, to Theodore Plaster However the first Stillwater City Directory in 1877 already hsts Theodore Plaster, blacksmith, residing at the corner of 7th and Willard 129 City of Stillwater Building Permit #194 51 The Nest One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Peter J Shattuck, a merman, purchased Lots 3 and 4, Block 8 from Patrick O'Connell in September of 1882 According to the tax assessor's yearly record, he built a house valued at over $500 that same year, a house which today has the number, 511 W Willard Street Shattuck sold the property m 1892 130 John Hogan, a lumberman who worked at the Boom, bought his lots from Elizabeth Churchill in August of 1881 He must have built a small house soon afterwards which took the number, 515 W Willard Street Hogan is listed as a resident at that address in the 1884 and 1890 91 Stillwater City Directories 131 Ludwig Joseph Mueller built the home at 521 W Willa' d Street about 1891 He is listed m the Stillwater City Directory as a laborer 132 THE FINAL CHAPTER y 1900, most of the real estate left by Levi Churchill and Socrates Nelson had been sold In September of 1901, Fayette Marsh died at the age of 57 His obituary testifies to the tragic figure Fayette had become 133 "The sad fact has for years been impressed upon the minds of our citizens that the once brilliant lawyer, Fayette Marsh, bound by a seemingly uncontrollable passion to habits of dissipation was moving in the pace that kills All the efforts of his better nature and the kindly influence of relatives and friends were of no avail At times it seemed as if the great curse of his life was to be lifted, and he became himself But not for long The demon of drink clutched him again in its deadly grasp, and he went steadily downward His speedy decline, the loss of the respect and confidence among friends who had hoped in vain for his deliverance from the cruel bonds which led hem captive on the downward road, these are too well known to most of our readers Last Tuesday afternoon, while in a weak and dazed condition, he stumbled and fell down a flight of stairs in the Mower block and was found insensible a few moments later He was taken to the city hospital and after an examination by the physicians his case was pronounced a very serious one He lingered, however, in a semiconscious condition, until last evening at 8 30, 130 8 Deeds 364 10 Deeds 427 35 Deeds 536, 1884 and 1887 Stillwater City Directories 131 8 Deeds 345 132 7 Deeds 169 19 Deeds 254 City of Stillwater Building Permit (woodshed) #868 SAM 7 Roll 19 133 Stillwater Gazette September 14 1901 52 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition when death closed the career of one who in life was respected and beloved by all, and whose memory will be kindly cherished by hundreds who will only remember his many noble and unselfish acts of kindness, forgetting else in the charity which covers all the shortcomings and imperfections of this brief, transitory existence here " Fayette's wil1134 left one third of his estate to each of his three children with Emma Nelson Marsh He left one-half his law hbrary to his second child, Fayette Marsh, Jr , age 13, by his second wife, Kate Greeley The personal assets of Fayette totaled $218 00, his real estate, heavily mortgaged with back taxes, was valued at $333 00 Socrates Nelson's legacy, worth $100,000 00 in 1867, had been reduced to less than $1,000 00, two generations later, despite a ten fold increase in the price of Stillwater real estate On May 11, 1908, Elizabeth Churchill, aged 83, ched at her home at 5108 S Broadway in St Louis, Missouri She had no children Her estate consisted of Block 29 on Main Street in the original plat of Stillwater, which was valued at $5,500 00, some lots in Churchill's Second Addition valued at $950 00, and $773 00 in cash Her house was left to her sisters, a brother, Barron Proctor, age 74, and two nephews Levi Proctor, age 52, and William White, age 60, were her sole heirs 135 '34 Will of Fayette Marsh #2297 Washington County Probate Office 136 Will of Elizabeth M Churchill #3039 Washington County Probate Office 53 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson 8 Slaughter's Addctton APPENDIX A Building dates (SORTED BY DATE) The following is a listing of the houses in the neighborhood by the date they were built For over six months, I have researched these houses and their building dates I have used the records of the yearly visits by the tax assessor which are now in the Minnesota State Archives, I have used the City of Stillwater Building Permits, I hale used the deeds and mortgages found in the Washington County Recorder's Office, m short, I have thoroughly researched the dates that I present below In many cases, particularly for those homes built before 1900, my building dates in bold will be different than the dates (in parenthesis) you have for your house This difference in dates is generally the result of a real estate agent using the (m parenthesis) building date found in the Assessor's Office when listing the home for sale Before 1900, these (in parenthesis) dates in the Assessor's Office are generally inaccurate and only meant to serve as a general gtudeluie Date 1863 (1875) 1870 (1872) 18709 (1870) 18709 (1880) 18709 (1880) 18709 (1885) 18709 1875 1870's (1875) 1870's (1875) 1870's (1876) 1870's9 (1862) 1870's? (1864) 1870's? (1872) Street House Dir Willard Sixth Street Fifth Street Fifth Street Willard Sixth Street Willard Seventh Street Sixth Street Fourth Street Churchill Fifth Street Churchill 313 712 718 712 219 722 215 706 813 820 310 708 314 W S S S W S W S S S W S W 54 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition 1871 (1864) 1871 (1873) 1871 (1874) 1871 (1875) 1871 (1876) 1871 (1878) 1871 (1880) 1872 (1880) 1872 (1880) 1872 (1885) 1872 (1900) 1872 (1862) 1872 (1862) 1872 (1864) 1872 (1864) 1872 (1874) 1872 (1875) 1872 (1876) 18729 (1865) 18729 (1872) 18729 (1882) 1873 (1876) 1873 (1880) 1873 (1885) 1873 (1888) 1874 (1862) 1874 (1864) 1874 (1870) 1874 (1872) 1874 (1874) 1874 (1874) Fourth Street Churchill Seventh Street Fourth Street Seventh Street Churchill Fifth Street Holcombe Sixth Street Churchill Churchill Seventh Street Seventh Street Churchill Sixth Street Fifth Street Sixth Street Churchill Seventh Street Seventh Street Churchill Fifth Street Churchill Fifth Street Fourth Street Fifth Street Fifth Street Fourth Street Seventh Street Seventh Street Seventh Street 816 S 322 W 812 S 802 S 731 S 309 W 824 S 1001 S 916 S 513 W 421 W 811 S 818 S 319 W 814 S 804 S 810 S 502 W 719 S 715 S 514 W 715 S 521 W 823 S 1006 S 912 S 1020 S 924 S 722 S 911 S 921 S 55 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition 1874 (1875) 1874 (1878) 1874 (1880) 1874 (1880) 1874 (1880) 1875 (1873) 1875 (1882) 1876 (1880) 1876 (1885) 1877 (1875) 1877 (1870) 1877 (1872) 1877 (1874) 1877 (1875) 1877 (1875) 1877 (1878) 1878 (1868) 1878 (1872) 1878 (1875) 1878 (1880) 1878 (1880) 1878 (1890) 1878 (1890) 1879 (1872) 1880 (1880) 1880 (1880) 1880 (1880) 18809 (1878) 1880's? (1878) 1881 (1872) 1881 (1874) Sixth Street Holcombe Fifth Street Fourth Street Holcombe Seventh Street Sixth Street Sixth Street Seventh Street Willard Fifth Street Seventh Street Seventh Street Sixth Street Willard Fifth Street Sixth Street Seventh Street Fourth Street Fourth Street Fourth Street Fourth Street Sixth Street Sixth Street Holcombe Seventh Street Seventh Street Fifth Street Fifth Street Seventh Street Fifth Street 720 S 917 S 807 S 716 S 921 S 817 S 1004 S 805 S 918 S 421 W 920 S 923 S 720 S 723 S 415 W 1002 S 715 S 726 S 806 S 720 S 724 S 810 S 1020 S 719 S 615 S 702 S 1006 S 913 S 921 S 910 S 909 S 56 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition 1881 (1875) 1881 (1875) 1881 (1888) 1882 (1868) 1882 (1875) 1882 (1880) 1882 (1880) 1882 (1882) 1882 (1885) 1883 (1874) 1883 (1876) 1883 (1878) 1883 (1880) 1884 (1880) 1885 (1870) 18859 (1885) 1887 (1875) 1888 (1883) 1890 1890 (1872) 1890 (1872) 1890? (1890) 1891 (18620 1891 (1875) 1892 (1878) 1892 (1878) 1894 1894 (1890) 1900 1901 1902 Willard Willard Sixth Street Sixth Street Sixth Street Churchill Fourth Street Fifth Street Sixth Street Sixth Street Seventh Street Sixth Street Fourth Street Fifth Street Seventh Street Seventh Street Willard Fifth Street Sixth Street Seventh Street Seventh Street Sixth Street Seventh Street Willard Churchill Churchill Seventh Street Fifth Street Fourth Street Sixth Street Churchill 511 W 515 W 919 S 1021 S 923 S 505 W 916 S 1003 S 802 S 1015 S 725 S 922 S 1010 S 817 S 913 S 922 S 409 W 713 S 902 S 810 S 1009 S 809 S 916 S 521 W 404 W 410 W 1018 S 1016 S 1022 S 1010 S 219 W 57 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition 1902 Holcombe 705 S 1906 Fifth Street 1008 S 1911 Churchill 416 W 1911 (1910) Fifth Street 904 S 1911 (1911) Fifth Street 908 S 1912 Seventh Street 1013 S 1913 Sixth Street 908 S 1914 Churchill 424 W 1920 Seventh Street 924 S 1920 Seventh Street 1014 S 1921 (1908) Seventh Street 1017 S 1923 Sixth Street 1007 S 1928 Sixth Street 911 S 1941 Fourth Street 704 S 1946 Fourth Street 912 S 1947 Fifth Street 805 S 1948 Churchill 413 W 1948 Fifth Street 808 S 1948 Fifth Street 811 S 1948 Fifth Street 1019 S 1948 Holcombe 913 S 1949 Seventh Street 714 S 1950 Churchill. 522 W 1951 Churchill. 313 W 1955 Churchill 509 W 1955 Holcombe 701 S 1956 Fifth Street 1013 S 1957 Willard 305 W 1960 Holcombe 611 S 1961 Sixth Street 1002 S 1964 Hancock 516 W 58 The West One -Half of Churchtll, Nelson & Slaughter's Addttton 1964 1965 1965 1966 1975 1980 1990 Commercial Commercial Hancock Fifth Street Fifth Street Fourth Street Seventh Street Fifth Street Sixth Street Fourth Street Fourth Street 520 W 812 S 816 S 710 S 815 S 801 S 1016 S 826 S 902 S 59 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition APPENDIX B Building Dates (SORTED BY ADDRESS) The following is a hsting of the houses m the neighborhood by the address and date they were built For over six months, I have researched these houses and their building dates I have used the records of the yearly visits by the tax assessor wluch are now m the Minnesota State Archives, I ha%e used the City of Stillwater Building Permits, I have used the deeds and mortgages found m the Washington County Recorder's Office, in short, I have thoroughly researched the dates that I present below In many cases, particularly for those homes built before 1900, my budding dates in bold will be different than the dates (in parenthesis) you have for your house This difference in dates is generally the result of a real estate agent using the (in parenthesis) building date found in the Assessor's Office when hsting the home for sale Before 1900, these (in parenthesis) dates in the Assessor's Office are generally inaccurate, and only meant to serve as a general guideline Street Dii House Date Churchill W 219 1902 Churchill W 309 1871 (1878) Churchill W 310 1870's9 (1862) Churchill W 313 1951 Churchill W 314 1870's9 (1872) Churchill W 319 1872 (1864) Churchill W 322 1871 (1873) Churchill W 404 1892 (1878) Churchill W 410 1892 (1878) Churchill W 413 1948 Churchill W 416 1911 Churchill W 421 1872 (1900) Churchill W 424 1914 Churchill W 502 1872 (1876) Churchill W 505 1882 (1880) 60 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Churchill W 509 1955 Churchill W 513 1872 (1885) Churchill W 514 18729 (1882) Churchill W 521 1873 (1880) Churchill W 522 1950 Fifth Street S 708 1870's9 (1864) Fifth Street S 712 18709 (1880) Fifth Street S 713 1888 (1883) Fifth Street S 715 1873 (1876) Fifth Street S 718 18709 (1870) Fifth Street S 801 1980 Fifth Street S 804 1872 (1874) Fifth Street S 805 1947 Fifth Street S 807 1874 (1880) Fifth Street S 808 1948 Fifth Street S 811 1948 Fifth Street S 812 1965 Fifth Street S 816 1965 Fifth Street S 817 1884 (1880) Fifth Street S 823 1873 (1885) Fifth Street S 824 1871 (1880) Fifth Street S 904 1911 (1910) Fifth Street S 908 1911 (1911) Fifth Street S 909 1881 (1874) Fifth Street S 912 1874 (1862) Fifth Street S 913 18809 (1878) Fifth Street S 920 1877 (1870) Fifth Street S 921 1880's9 (1878) Fifth Street S 1002 1877 (1878) Fifth Street S 1003 1882 (1882) Fifth Street S 1008 1906 61 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Fifth Street S 1013 1956 Fifth Street S 1016 1894 (1890) Fifth Street S 1019 1948 Fifth Street S 1020 1874 (1864) Fourth Street S 704 1941 Fourth Street S 710 1966 Fourth Street S 716 1874 (1880) Fourth Street S 720 1878 (1880) Fourth Street S 724 1878 (1880) Fourth Street S 802 1871 (1875) Fourth Street S 806 1878 (1875) Fourth Street S 810 1878 (1890) Fourth Street S 816 1871 (1864) Fourth Street S 820 1870's (1876) Fourth Street S 826 Commercial Fourth Street S 902 Commercial Fourth Street S 912 1946 Fourth Street S 916 1882 (1880) Fourth Street S 924 1874 (1870) Fourth Street S 1006 1873 (1888) Fourth Street S 1010 1883 (1880) Fourth Street S 1022 1900 Hancock W 516 1964 Hancock W 520 1964 Holcombe S 611 1960 Holcombe S 615 1880 (1880) Holcombe S 701 1955 Holcombe S 705 1902 Holcombe S 913 1948 Holcombe S 917 1874 (1878) Holcombe S 921 1874 (1880) 62 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Holcombe Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh Seventh S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S 1001 1872 (1880) 702 1880 (1880) 706 1870's (1875) 714 1949 715 18729 (1872) 719 18729 (1865) 720 1877 (1874) 722 1874 (1872) 725 1883 (1876) 726 1878 (1872) 731 1871 (1876) 810 1890 (1872) 811 1872 (1862) 812 1871 (1874) 815 1975 817 1875 (1873) 818 1872 (1862) 910 1881 (1872) 911 1874 (1874) 913 1885 (1870) 916 1891 (18620 918 1876 (1885) 921 1874 (1874) 922 18859 (1885) 923 1877 (1872) 924 1920 1006 1880 (1880) 1009 1890 (1872) 1013 1912 1014 1920 1017 1921 (1908) 63 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Seventh S 1018 1894 Sixth Street S 712 1870 (1872) Sixth Street S 715 1878 (1868) Sixth Street S 719 1879 (1872) Sixth Street S 720 1874 (1875) Sixth Street S 722 18709 (1885) Sixth Street S 723 1877 (1875) Sixth Street S 802 1882 (1885) Sixth Street S 805 1876 (1880) Sixth Street S 809 18909 (1890) Sixth Street S 810 1872 (1875) Sixth Street S 813 1870's (1875) Sixth Street S 814 1872 (1864) Sixth Street S 902 1890 Sixth Street S 908 1913 Sixth Street S 911 1928 Sixth Street S 916 1872 (1880) Sixth Street S 919 1881 (1888) Sixth Street S 922 1883 (1878) Sixth Street S 923 1882 (1875) Sixth Street S 1002 1961 Sixth Street S 1004 1875 (1882) Sixth Street S 1007 1923 Sixth Street S 1010 1901 Sixth Street S 1015 1883 (1874) Sixth Street S 1016 1990 Sixth Street S 1020 1878 (1890) Sixth Street S 1021 1882 (1868) Willard W 215 18709 1875 Willard W 219 18709 (1880) Willard W 305 1957 64 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Additton Willard W 313 1863 (1875) Willard W 409 1887 (1875) Willard W 415 1877 (1875) Willard W 421 1877 (1875) Willard W 511 1881 (1875) Willard W 515 1881 (1875) Willard W 521 1891 (1875) 65 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition APPENDIX C hese are the names, addresses and occupations for this neighborhood from the 1894-1895 R L Polk and Co City Directory If 3 ou had lived in this area a century ago, these would have been your neighbors the people you knew The first address is the home address, a second address (when given) would be the address of their work place These Directories are not always complete, and they have their share of misinformation Despite the mistakes, however, I think this is a good indication of who lived m the neighborhood and what they did for a living Res means general the home owner, Bds means a boarder, often an adult child of the home owner Churchill W 215, McDonough, John, laborer, bds Churchill W 215, McDonough, Miles, lumberman, bds Churchill W 215, McDonough, Peter, drayman, res Churchill W 218, Loeber Christina, domestic, Churchill W 218, Nichol, James A , lumberman, res Churchill W 219, Olson, Elmer, clerk, bds Churchill W 219, Olson, Joseph, street commissioner, res Churchill W 303, Giebler, George, butcher D J Hooley, res Churchill W 310, Currie, Sarah J , (widow, John) res Churchill W 310, Sandahl, Charles, cook, res Churchill W 319, Garen, Florence, Furniture & Undertaker 310 S Main, res Churchill W 322, Thompson, Alice, student Stillwater Business College, bds Churchill W 322, Thompson, Charles, lumberman, bds Churchill W 322, Thompson, Levi, Wood and Coal, 115 N Main, res Churchill W 404, Barter, Arthur, lumberman, res Churchill W 404, Barter, Robert, lumberman, res Churchill W 410 McClellan Alexander, lumberman, res Churchill W 421, Johnson, Harry S , stenographer, bds 66 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addctaon Churchill W 421, Churchill W 424, Churchill W 502, Churchill W 502, Churchill W 502, Churchill W 505, Churchill W 505, Churchill W 505, Churchill W 505, Churchill W 505, Churchill W 505, Kane, Thomas A , teamster, res Chase, William L, driver Bronson & Folsom, res McGrath, Andrew, lumberman, res McGrath, John, lumberman, bds McGrath, Nancy (widow John), res Mosier, Thomas, rafter, bds O'Brien, John, rafter, bds Singleton, William, teamster, bds Whelan, James, laborer, bds Whelan, John, laborer G H Atwood, res Whelan, William, rafter, bds Churchill W 513, Nelson, John M , res Churchill W 514, Curtis, John Jr , mason, bds Churchill W 514, Curtis, John, mason, res Churchill W 514, Noonan, Timothy, horseshoer Wm Noonan, res Churchill W 521 Kern, George, laborer G H Atwood, res Fifth S 0712, Weiss, Balthasar, ice, res Fifth S 0713, Olson, Mary, milliner L Albenberg, bds Fifth S 0713, Olson, Oscar J manager R A Kirk, res Fifth S 0715, Collins, John, bds Fifth S 0715, Collins, Patrick, Asst Health Officer, res Fifth S 0718, Lane, Mary (widow John), res Fifth S 0804, Millbrook, Christina, milliner A C Schuttmger, bds Fifth S 0804, Millbrook, David, mason, res Fifth S 0804, Millbrook, Herman, clerk Joseph Dahm, bds Fifth S 0804, Millbrook, Mary, clerk Singer Mnfg Co, bds Fifth S 0805, Ziegler, Fritz, Saloon 302 N Main, res Fifth S 0807, Morgan, Frederica, dressmaker G C Morgan, bds Fifth S 0807, Morgan, Georgia C , dressmaker 117 E Chestnut, bds Fifth S 0807, Morgan, Hannah (widow John), res 67 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Fifth S 0811, Hohlt, Gottheb, drayman, res Fifth S 0816, Shger, Amelia, res Fifth S 0817, Goodman, James, Insurance, Real Estate, and Employment Agency, 14 Tepass Block, 231 E Chestnut, bds Fifth S 0817, McFarlane, Edmund J , travel agent, res Fifth S 0817, McFarlane, Edward, travel agent, bds Fifth S 0817, Ulrich, Amanda, domestic Fifth S 0823, Peterson, Anne (widow Andrew) bds Fifth S 0824, Clark, George, laborer, res Fifth S 0824, Gowan, George, lumberman, res Fifth S 0904, Becker, Emma V , dressmaker, bds Fifth S 0904, Becker, Ferdinand, teamster, res Fifth S 0904, Becker, Frederick, clerk J J Eichten, bds Fifth S 0904, Becker, John C , teamster, bds Fifth S 0909, Pankonin, Ferdinand, laborer, East Side Lbr Co, res Fifth S 0912, Wentzel, Frank, collector, Stillwater Gazette, bds Fifth S 0912, Wentzel, Melvin H porter, Union Depot, bds Fifth S 0912, Wentzel, William J works G H Atwood, res Fifth S 0913, Goff, Rufus E , lumberman, res Fifth S 0920, Tobisch, Ferdinand, canvasser, res Fifth S 0920, Tobisch, Mrs Anna, Midwife, res Fifth S 0920, Tobisch„ Frank, florist Frank Berry, bds Fifth S 0921, Greeder, William, lumberman, res Fifth S 0921, McFarlane, Annie, folder Clewell & Easton, bds Fifth S 0921, McFarlane, Catherine M , bds Fifth S 1002, Kreger, Henry, driver, res Fifth S 1003, Brigan, Albert, laborer, bds Fifth S 1003, Brigan, Hiram, lumberman, bds Fifth S 1003, Bngan, William, lumberman, res Fifth S 1003, Kemper, Frank H , drn er L Thompson, res Fifth S 1004, Smith, Charles G , laborer, res 68 The West One -Half of Churchcll, Nelson & Slaughter's Addction Fifth S 1008, Savage, Eugene, janitor Central School, res Fifth S 1008, Savage, Harry, laborer, bds Fifth S 1020, Dougherty, Thomas, lumberman, bds Fifth S 1020, McGrath, Frank P , teamster, bds Fifth S 1020, McGrath, John ` , laborer, bds Fifth S 1020, McGrath, Paul, lumberman, bds Fifth S 1020, McLeer, Michael J , rafter Musser S L L & Mnfg, Co, res Fourth S 0702, Gruber, Gottheb, umbrella mender, res Fourth S 0702, Waseschi, Clara (widow Anton) res Fourth S 0706, Dustin, Mark, cook, bds Fourth S 0706, Leonard, Albert H , rafter, bds Fourth S 0706, Leonard, William H , laborer, res Fourth S 0706, Nelson, Frank, hostler Stewart & O'Shea, res Fourth S 0710, MCPlke, Ahce, dressmaker, bds Fourth S 0710, McPike, Charles, lumberman, res Fourth S 0713, Kerr, Evelyn W (Gagne & Kerr) res Fourth S 0716, Hart, Patrick F engineer, res Fourth S 0716, Kehoe, Mark, laborer, bds Fourth S 0720, Utecht, John (Utecht Bros), res Fourth S 0724, Litfin, Frank, engineer, Florence Mill Co, res Fourth S 0801, Barron, Ernest J, laborer, bds Fourth S 0801, Barron, James P laborer, bds Fourth S 0801, Barron, Patrick, laborer, res Fourth S 0801, Barron, Thomas E , laborer, bds Fourth S 0802, Mealey, Alfred, lumberman, bds Fourth S 0802, Mealey, George, bartender 209 E Chestnut, bds Fourth S 0802, Mealey, John, policeman, res Fourth S 0806, Johnson, Catherine, dressmaker, bds Fourth S 0806, Johnson, James 0, clerk L Albenberg & Co, res Fourth S 0806, Kuehn Rudolph A, (Kuehn & Nehring [florists]), res Fourth S 0806, Nehring, Robert (Kuehn & Nehring), bds 69 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Fourth S 0807, Kilty, James D, clerk, bds Fourth S 0807, Kilty, Timothy C , Commission, Wood and Coal, res Fourth S 0807, Kilty, Timothy, res Fourth S 0810, Michaud, David (Lupien & Michaud), res Fourth S 0810, Wolf, Clara, domestic Fourth S 0815, Kilty, John J , manager T C Kilty 313 E Chestnut, res Fourth S 0816, Goodman, Phillip, res Fourth S 0817, Kelly, James, bds Fourth S 0820, Cote, Arthur, laborer, res Fourth S 0820, Behsle, Philomene (wid Narcisse), carpet weaver, res same Fourth S 0820, Behsle, Samuel, clerk Linder & Erickson, bds Fourth S 0822, Bergin, Patrick, rafter, res Fourth S 0822, Hiltz, George, lumberman, bds Fourth S 0822, Hiltz, John, laborer, res Fourth S 0822, Ward, James H , grocer, res 909 S 4th Fourth S 0902, Hooley, Dennis J meats Fourth S 0906, Forsythe, Alexander, laborer D J Hooley, bds Fourth S 0906, Giebler, John, driver D J Hooley, bds Fourth S 0906, Giebler, Lena, domestic Fourth S 0906, Hooley, Denrus J meats 902 S 4th, res Fourth S 0906, Larson, Carl, driver D J Hooley, bds Fourth S 0910, Kelley, Joseph, laborer, bds Fourth S 0910, McLellan, Walter J , laborer, res Fourth S 0916, Dyson, Charles (Fitzgerald & Co) res Fourth S 0916, Nordstrom, Charles A , laborer, res Fourth S 0924, Clancy, Maurice, res Fourth S 0924, Quigley, Margaret, domestic Fourth S 1001, Buggy, Edward, teamster, res Fourth S 1001, Keen, Frank, lumberman, res 70 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson 8 Slaughter's Addition Fourth S 1006, Fourth S 1006, Fourth S 1006, Fourth S 1006, Fourth S 1010, Fourth S 1010, Fourth S 1010, Fourth S 1010, Fourth S 1010, Fourth S 1010, Fourth S 1010, Fourth S 1010, McCallan, Gertrude, telephone operator, bds McCallan, Lilhe, principal, Nelson School, bds McCallan, Nettie, teacher, bds McCallan, Thomas, tailor 216 Main, res Garbe, Emil. J , laborer, East Side Lbr Co , res Gedatus, Paul, laborer, bds Meisner, August C , tailor, res Meisner, Henry L, teamster, bds Meisner, James E , clerk O'Neal Bros, bds Meisner, Joseph, elevator operator Tormus block, bds Meisner, William E , bds Tollas, Charles, laborer, bds Fourth S 1014, Arndt, John, travel agent, res Fourth S 1022, Carroll, William, Saloon 102 S Main, res Fourth S 1022, Roettger, Clara A , domestic, bds Hancock W 524, Ehas, Mrs Katherine, res Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Holcombe Seventh S Seventh S Seventh S S 0615, Tuttle, Benton T , lumberman, res S 0615, Tuttle, Thomas B , lumberman, res S 0913, Gust, Wiliam, laborer H A Kunzmann, res S 0917, Loeber, August, clerk, R A Kirk, res S 0921, Huser, Albert, clerk C Heitman, bds S 0921, Huser, Catherine (widow William) res S 1001, Garbe, Alexander A , laborer, East Side Lbr S 1001, Garbe, Alexander C , laborer, East Side Lbr S 1001, Garbe, August F , laborer, East Side Lbr Co S 1009, Klatt, Charles, laborer, res S 1009, Klatz, Charles, laborer, res Co , res Co , bds , bds 0702, Monson, Christian, driver F Garen, bds 0702, Monson, Ole, Boots and Shoes Made To Order, res 0707, Krevinghause, Henry, driver C Heitman, bds 71 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Seventh S 0715, Seiberhch, Leopold P carpenter, res Seventh S 0716, Seiberhch, Joseph, cabinetmaker Simonet Bros, res Seventh S 0719, Arsanault, Andrew, rafter, res Seventh S 0719, Kutz, Herman (H Kutz & Co [contractors & builders]), res Seventh S 0720, McLane, Michael D , laborer, res Seventh S 0720, Keeler, William, tallyman, bds Seventh S 0722, Jamieson, William, lumberman, bds Seventh S 0722, McNally, Amy E (widow George) res Seventh S 0725, Biers, Frank F , laborer, res Seventh S 0725, Weideman, August, engineer Doud Sons & Co, res Seventh S 0725, Wojahn, Augusta (widow Martin), bds Seventh S 0726, George F Allen, rafter Musser S L L & Mnfg Co res Seventh S 0731, Beecroft, Isaiah, laborer, res Seventh S 0809, Sheahan, John, res Seventh S 0810, Erhtz, Albert, mason, res Seventh S 0811, Then, Joseph, carpenter, res Seventh S 0812, Ratican, George Jr , rafter, bds Seventh S 0812, Ratican, George, rafter Musser S L L & Mnfg, Co res Seventh S 0812, Ratican, Thomas, barber S H Hadley, bds Seventh S 0817, Underhill, Robert, rafter Musser S L L & Mnfg Co, res Seventh S 0817, Weber, Frederick, res Seventh S 0818, Keyes, Catherine A , stenographer Minn Thresher Mnfg Co , bds Seventh S 0818, Keyes, Dennis, laborer, res Seventh S 0818, Keyes, Jeremiah, lumberman, bds Seventh S 0818, Keyes, John W , clerk, bds Seventh S 0818, Keyes, Robert J , lumberman, bds Seventh S 0818, Keyes, William F , lumberman, bds Seventh S 0818, Walsh, William F , mail carrier, bds Seventh S 0910, Plaster, Albert T , laborer, East Side Lbr Co, res 72 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Seventh S 0913 Arndt, Joseph, cooper, res Seventh S 0916, Bartkey, August, laborer, res Seventh S 0916, Butke, August, laborer, res Seventh S 0918, Apmann, John, laborer, res Seventh S 0921, Barthol, Joseph, laborer, res Seventh S 0923, Zorn, Herman Jr , laborer, bds Seventh S 0923, Zorn, Michael, res Seventh S 0924, Kietzmann, Adolph, baker E Gust, bds Seventh S 0924, Kietzmann, Edward, apprentice St Croix Post, bds Seventh S 0924, Kietzmann, Emil Jr, laborer, bds Seventh S 0924, Kietzmann, Emil, carpenter St Croix Lbr Co, res Seventh S 1006, Sprich, Adolph, carpenter, bds Seventh S 1006, Sprich, Charles F , laborer G H Atwood, bds Seventh S 1006, Sprich, Enul, carpenter, res Seventh S 1009, Tollas, Frederick, laborer G H Atwood, res Seventh S 1009, Tollas, George A , bds Seventh S 1017, Blanke, Christian, bds Seventh S 1017, Blanke, Ernest, laborer, res Seventh S 1018, Zorn, Herman, laborer East Side Lbr Co, res Seventh S 1018, Zorn, Mrs Antenea, dressmaker, res Sixth S 0712, Cramer, Henry, carpenter, res Sixth S 0712, Lueken, Henry, cooper, res Sixth S 0712, Scheurer, William, baker C Heitman, res Sixth S 0715, Goff, Ehphalet N , lumberman, res Sixth S 0715, Goff, Frederick, lumberman, bds Sixth S 0719, Sinclair, John, rafter Musser S L L & Mnfg Co, res Sixth S 0720, Pretzel, John, cooper Joseph Wolf, res Sixth S 0722, Goff, Emma B , clerk, bds Sixth S 0722, Goff, John S , cook, res 73 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Additton Sixth S 0723, Wohlers, William, laborer, res Sixth S 0802, Reutimann, Frank, Painter & Paperhanger 304 N Main, res Sixth S 0805, McCarthy, James R , lumberman, res Sixth S 0809, Soller, Alfred, carpenter, res Sixth S 0809, Taller, Alfred, carpenter, res Sixth S 0810, Manthey, Anton, laborer G H Atwood, res Sixth S 0814, Heron, Benjamen, rafter, bds Sixth S 0814, Heron, Charles, lumberman, bds Sixth S 0814, Heron, Esther (widow Benjamen) res Sixth S 0814, Heron, Henry, laborer, bds Sixth S 0902, Kilty, John, lumberman, res Sixth S 0904, Collopy, John E wagon maker 232 S 2d, res Sixth S 0916, Foster, Edward G, clerk, County Treasurer, res Sixth S 0919, Arndt, August, shoemaker, McLaughlin & Kilty, res Sixth S 0919, Arndt, John, bds Sixth S 0922, Zorn, William, laborer G H Atwood, res Sixth S 0923, Fox, Melvma (widow William), nurse, res Sixth S 1004, Short, James A, driver O"neal Bros, res Sixth S 1004, Walsh, Amy, bds Sixth S 1007, Hendrickson, Christian, bds Sixth S 1007, Hendrickson, Lena (widow Peter), res Sixth S 1015, Schmoeckel, Albert, mason, res Sixth S 1015, Schmoeckel, Emma, seamstress, bds Sixth S 1015, Schmoeckel, Munroe, clerk A C Schuttunger, bds, Sixth S 1016, Cates B Ellsworth, lumberman, bds Sixth S 1016, Cates, Timothy L, laborer, res Sixth S 1016, Hodnett, Albert, laborer, bds Sixth S 1016, McInnis, Angus, laborer, bds rear 74 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Sixth S 1016, McInnis, Daniel, laborer, res rear Sixth S 1021, Ratican, Thomas J , lumberman, bds Sixth S 1021, Ratican, Thomas, lumberman, res Sixth S 1021, Ratican, William J , lumberman, bds Sixth S 1022, Arndt, Joseph, butcher, res Willard W 313, Lustig, Charles, bartender 410 E Chestnut, res Willard W 401, Glass, Mary L (widow Peter), dressmaker, res Willard W 401, Glass, Nicholas, laborer, bds Willard W 409, Schwartz, Albert, teamster, East Side Lbr Co, bds Willard W 409, Schwarz, Frank, laborer Florence Mill Co, res Willard W 409, Schwarz, Frederick, laborer, bds Willard W 409, Schwarz, William, foreman, bds Willard W 421, Plaster, Gustav, painter Minn Thresher Mnfg Co, bds Willard W 421, Plaster, Minnie, milliner Mrs L seeba, bds Willard W 421, Plaster, Theodore, laborer, res Willard W 511, Murphy, Terence, laborer, res Willard W 511, Senmtt, Frances A dressmaker, res Willard W 511, Senmtt, Michael, res Willard W 515, John Hogan, laborer, res Willard W 521, Muller, Joseph L, laborer, res 75 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Additton BIBLIOGRAPHY Birds Eye Views of Stillwater, 1870 and 1879 Drawn by Albert Ruger Originals in the Washington County Historical Society, Warden's House Museum, and the Minnesota Historical Society Reprints available from Empson Archives, P 0 Box 791, Stillwater, MN 55082 Paul Caplazi Unpublished manuscript, April, 1944 The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Stillwater Compiled by C F Gregory, City Attorney Stillwater, Lumberman Steam Printing Co, 1881 Fifty Years m the Northwest, by W H C Folsom Pioneer Press Company, 1888 History of the St Croix Valley, edited by Augustus B Easton Chicago, H C Cooper Jr & Co , 1909 History of St Louis City and County, mcluding Biographical Sketches of Representative Men, by J Thomas Scharf Philadelphia, Louis H Everts & Co 1883 History of the White Pme Industry m Minnesota by Agnes M Larson, Uruversity of Mmnesota Press, 1949 History of Washington County and The St Croix Valley, North Star Publishing Company, Minneapolis, 1881 Minnesota Biographies, 1655 1912 Collections of the Mmnesota Historical Society, Volume XIV Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1884, 1891, 1898, 1904, 1910, 1924 St Croix Union [newspaper, Stillwater, Minnesota] Sectional Map of the City of Stillwater, [1878] There is a copy of this map hanging m the Washington County Recorder's Office Stillwater City Directories, 1876-1964 Stillwater Daily Gazette [newspaper, Stillwater, Minnesota] 76 1 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition Stillwater Historic Contexts A Comprehensive Planning Approach Stillwater Stillwater Heritage Preservation Commission, July 1993 Stillwater Gazette [newspaper, Stillwater, Mmnesota] Stillwater Lumberman [newspaper, Stillwater, Minnesota] Stillwater Messenger [newspaper, Stillwater, Minnesota] Stillwater Public Library Stillwater Building Permits [on microfilm] Stillwater Pubhc Library St Croix Collection United States Census of Mmnesota Territory Washington County Stillwater United States Census of 1860, 1870, 1880, Washington County Stillwater Washington County Probate Court Files Washington County Recorder's Office Books of Deeds, Books of Mortgages, Books of Bonds, Books of Plats Washington County Tax Assessor's records for 1861-1900 Minnesota State Archives Microfilm copies can be found at the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Stillwater Pubhc Library 77 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addttion CONTEXTS There were two contexts appropriate to this survey The first context was the statewide historic context St Croix Valley Triangle Lumbering (1843-1914) The chief economy in Stillwater in the 19th Century was that of the lumbering industry gathering the timber, moving the tunber to the Stillwater sawmills, and then delivering the finished lumber to the markets In Appendix C, I have listed the occupations of all the residents of West One Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition to Stillwater in 1894, the vast majority were employed m some way in the lumber industry All of the largest homes m the neighborhood were built with lumber money, so were many of the smaller ones Many of the residents of this area had worked in the lumber industry in New Brunswick, they followed the lumber trade east When the timber m the St Croix Valley grew scarce, many followed the industry to northern Minnesota, and from there to the Pacific Northwest The second context, which comes from the Stillwater historic context study (Vogel 1993) was Development of Residential Neighborhoods in Stillwater, 1850's-1940's This neighborhood was developed largely in the 1870's after the Third Street hill was opened to give access to these lots above the business district of Stillwater The vast majority of the houses in the area are old, there is relatively httle infill of the newer houses built after the Second World War 78 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition RECOMMENDATIONS he following are my recommendations for the West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition to Stillwater Addition They are based on the assumption it is desirable to maintain and promote the historic character of this neighborhood It is my belief that the long term prosperity and value of the West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter's Addition to Stillwater Additions and Stillwater's other older neighborhoods hes in preserving their old fashioned character This is what distinguishes Stiller ater from the myriad of other suburban developments surrounding the Twm Cities, and makes Stillwater a unique place to live HISTORIC DESIGNATION In this survey, as in previous surveys, I have tried to identify homes that are significant or unique, homes that are typical of a long forgotten time, or homes that are particularly representative of Stillwater But these surveys of mme are soon forgotten, and the significance I have ascribed to a particular dwelling may be forgotten as soon as the next owner I urge the City of Stillwater and the Heritage Preservation Committee to nitrate a process of designating and marking the historically significant houses rn Stillwater This will have the benefit of apprising the present owner that his home has value as a city landmark, and it will enable those interested in the history of the city to find the historical homes The City of Stillwater should initiate its own historic designation for houses throughout the city that are a significant part of Stillwater's history EDUCATION ON REMODELING OLDER HOMES The city —or some local organization --should make some efforts to provide information to the pubhc on mauntauung and remodeling or repairrng the older homes In Stillwater, older homes that have maintained their original integrity command a higher price than those homes have been changed from their original appearance But the average homeowner who might be concerned about preserving the integrity of his house is presently hard pressed to find good information on how to improve or 79 The West One -Half of Churchill, Nelson 8 Slaughter's Addition update his house without destroying it historic N alue A simple brochure contammg some basic guudehnes to be distributed by realtors, neighborhood groups, and the city could —over a period of years make a substantial difference on the overall appearance of the city THE DEMOLITION OF HOUSES E very year, a few more old homes in Stillwater are demohshed despite a city ordinance regulating and discouraging the process In some cases, it is a matter of business or church expansion, in some cases it is the owners wishing to build a new house on the same lot, and in several cases lately, it has been a matter of demohshing the old house to increase the value of the lot which can then be used for a nen more expensive house This latter situation has been particularly true of those lots with a river view Wlule this practice may be lucrative for the de%eloper, I beheve it detracts from the community as a whole the old houses are part of a legacy, an inheritance, left for future generations One of the additional steps the city aught take to encourage preservation would be to have architects and builders on call that are sympathetic to repairmg and restoring older houses This might discourage one of the most frequent rationales —that the house is beyond repair —used to justify demolition 80 � ...e- = - -' _ =ems- A x- Yy- 4—.T -+.aa. 4 _ .tee -. - A 11 ��a.✓• ems, <y� PO - a Swt- 3 • Central School built In 1870 on the NE coinei of Pine and Third • " Wyyuyh 4ir The neighborhood in 1870 fi om the Bnd's Ey e View Map by Albert Rugei pw- ?l.i'=';: "5 .t1� }s� v .s" "` .rj 'y ar 4', ^ a ter 'Y�ki 6' F'�',� 9 fi'1 .'1r y, Sv x�'"� `+ter i",{ � Le. t r , '914+ 14" "r4r.l j,{t r it '-f'r, s- r $ ! xit ' mot' . lr5 7 d j f h T w ld ee % F�� # R 1"twtY aQr„_d—re I r k A - P , de r y.p'p�' t�j`II+rta J� G a��+r �'Gr,. r ,r , } f{i si'"ar Mr to (l r'ir�r�1 75y^u4 ir re r`t•S-r, r 7 r `7 •r _r r� e?' p i yV r I Y r E ` al,,.. e q 1 '•A 'e'' L ;.. r 1.0. x ,,— 1 ren h 8 s uti rfY °ei (� sf f7'' 1, I , ( k 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Boats to Lot to Fishing aad Plows MK BOAT HOUSE FOOT OF CHESTNUT STREET NEAR THE BRIDGE Shop on North Side Myrtle, between Fifth and Sixth (;eo, ge Muller had 1010 S Fourth Sheet built tAA1( e LJ: 1,1 —17.2a XA,s N r` / *4 4 1 i a wy q So N V Y 4^ N 4 4 o4t ry Q , y t a ... Yq) -472a a 157S a a as • I_ " I N : : L 4 \1 I\ I tN \ v 0 a a1 I 3a w b I J/ a m W ai V N I 1 N M 1 1 V t It 14 y 1 t, a r 4 4..... a3, _,c ia 3 Ni aw \ a y L 7.7% s 4. w 5 PO 1 N i 1 r. i b e4 ti h W 4 V 4 A. d V 4 4 — ► r T Y - b n In. .. n n Ji N A N 4 y L y N b N v R V N h) 4 N M N h t1 44 4" 4 b a 4 4' ti \ K a< M a L N N a• 4 w 4 ok.'.AA Oi , O �C 1r 4 The original plat of the W 72 of Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter s Addition a b 7 v ti M J 0 J y Y The neighborhood in 1879 from the Bird's Eye View Map by Albert Ruger 4,,AA4.iat 0,A 0,2*)-ft / 0404/401( -,022-•••• F 4", .fio$444,0 I� tf yo,r(oKet I/ �, �.0 a ✓%.lam,.. t, A page from Socrates Nelson's day book of the 1845 when he was in the fur trade ack & Don Mielke ages 6 and 3 beside 502 kV Churchill in 1943 �y G 'Mr'{"i1lrAd ve it �u, q rqr 'd+, r<�'!i ��dr II I ! 1 I — r �FTRfrrca��i%F 1 Advisory Council On Historic Preservation The Old Post Office Building 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW #809 Washington DC 20004 On 1 8 2fl" Commissionei Elwyn Tinklenbeig Minnesota Depai tment of Ti anspoi tation Tiansportation Building 395 John Iceland Boulevaid St Paul, Minnesota, 55155-1899 Re Stillwatei-Houlton Lift Bi idge Minnesota and Wisconsin Dean MI Tinklenbeig We support the conflict resolution piocess pioposed in the report titled One River Two Br idges A Conflict Assessment of the Existing and Proposed St Cron River Bridges Between Stillwater Minnesota and Houlton Wisconsin (November 30, 2001) prepared by the U S Institute foi Environmental Conflict Resolution We welcome the opportunity to participate in a renewed consultation piocess and hope that the recommended approach does indeed "stimulate new thinking and a way beyond the impasse which has delayed the new bridge for so long" It is our understanding that the State Historic Pieservation Officers (SHPO) from Minnesota and Wisconsin also support the iesolution process recommended in this report and a renewal of consultation You have expressed a desne to obtain formal agreement from all parties to implement the process recommended by the Institute's report, and we are willing to consider such an agreement The conflict assessment recommends dividing those outstanding issues related to the Stillwater Lift Bridge and the proposed construction of a new bridge over the St Croix River into two separate, but coordinated, piocesses This approach would permit the immediate consideration of steps to repair and rehabilitate the historic bridge, an action for which these was substantial support among those interviewed by the Institute The report recommends formation of a Core Management group that would include the National Park Service, the Wisconsin and Minnesota Depaitments of Natural Resources, and the two SHPOs We ask that you consider including the Council on this core mntei-agency group so that we might represent the Federal historic pieservation interest just as the NPS is representing the Federal interest in natui al resources We look forward to working with you to resolve this matter and to put effort into translating oui "positions and cancer ns into concrete options suppoi ted by conceptual planning articulated cr zter za solid feasibility analysis and development of creative new appi oaches Should you have any questions, please contact us at 202-606-8505 nceiely, D' i� Klima Di/'=ctor Office of Federal Agency Programs MEMORANDUM TO Commission Members FROM Diane Ward, City Clerk SUBJECT New Recording Secretary and Implementation of Audio System DATE May 29, 2002 Due to the resignation of Sharon Baker, a new recording secretary will be starting on June 1 The new recording secretary is Bobbi Ward She presently works for a small city near Blaine She plans to continue her career in municipal government and looks forward to learning the commission/boards process in Stillwater She will be new to all of you so it will take time to put names with faces and voices I would ask that the Chairperson take a roll call of members present at the meetings, if you do not do it already Also, if you have corrections to the minutes please make the corrections at your meeting when you are asked to approve the minutes Another new addition to your meetings is the implementation of the Council Chamber's Audio System This will make the overhead camera and projector available to presenters, applicants, or staff and assist the recording secretary in the preparation of minutes At this time, videotaping of the meeting will not be done, just audio recording In order to utilize this technology, commission/boards will need to be at the table or dias so that the microphones are utilized The microphones are connected directly to the audio recorder In the case of public hearings or public comments, people speaking will need to approach the podium and speak into the microphone Steve Russell and Bobbi will be trained on the operation of the audio, projector and overhead camera system If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me (430-8802) cc Steve Russell Sue Fitzgerald 25' /10* I Remy fficSwsiri Bldg- 7- 19' 0 CI EXISTING EAST ELEVATION SCALE' Y4' = 1 —0' TO REPLACE EXIST SIGN WITH NEW NAME OF BUILDING NOTEI SIGNS TO BE SIMILAR TO 'LET THERE BE LIGHT' SIGN GOLD FRAME / BLACK BACKGROUND / GOLD LETTERS CTYPE TO BE APPROVED BY CITY) 110'-6' NEW SIGNAGE FOR JOHN HARVEY 0 W wt a 1 a e 3 S,1 EXISTING NORTH ELEVATION SCALES 3'4 = 1'-0' (45) Little Bluesten 1-Gal (8) Little Bluestein 1-Gal (36) Stella De Oro Lay 1-Gal (29) Little Bluestein 1-Gal (15) Stella De Oro Lily 1-Gal (16) Stella De Oro Lily 1-Gal (28) Little Bluestein 1-Gal (11) Little Bluestein 1-Gal Ems_ (1) Skyline Locust 2 1/2 -Cal Plant Schedule Quantity Symbol Scientific Name Common Name Code Name Planting Size 120 O Diervilla lonicera Bush Honeysuckle BHS 3-Gal 14 ® Gleditsia tricanthos inernis Skycole Skyline Locust SKL 2 1/2 -Cal 94 () Hemerocallis Stella De Oro Stella De Oro Lay SDO 1-Gal 165 l3 Nepeta x faasenii Walker s Low Walker s Low Nepeta WLN 1-Gal 140 ( Rhus aromatics Gro-Low Gro Low Sumac GLS 3-Gal 257 O Schizachyriun scoparius Little Bluestein LGS 1-Gal 60 0 Taxus x media Taunton Taunton Yew TAY 5-Gal OUTLOT A N89 0855 E Seed Disturbed Areas With Development Specified Seed Mix 49146 -(47) Bush Honeysuckle 3-Gal (73) Bush Honeysuckle 3-Gal J—VLLl (19) Taunton Yew (68) Walker s Low Nepeta 5-Gal 1-Gal (10) Taunton Yew 5-Gal 10319 \-11442E (46) Little Bluesten 1-Gal wptER Pa4 p1N6 p P / 1 1 (43) Lit -le Bluesten 1-Gal (11) Skyline Locust 2 1/2 -Cal Mulch All Srrub Beds With Fine Textured Shredded Bark Iulcn/4 Deep (2) Skyline Locust 2 1/2 -Cal Seed Fur ure (10) Taunton Yew-xpansonWith 5 Gal Develoerrent Specified Seed Mix / _- <39) Gro Low Sumac / - 3-Gal 5�6 - - (46) Little Bluestein / 1-Gal / azYP (95) Walkerj -Cow Nepeta 1-Gam — / / / / / / / i 07'2W i y12 / / / / / C)SITE PLAN r 30-0r DESCRIPTION LOT 1 BLOCK 2 B¢4DSH..W ADDITION Washington County Minnesota / / 5 23 02 FO SA CE NIIN 2 c0Nn OUS R —� 4.E0 ED PLA n G WK. TER & AAIP RE OW Ai P0C E5 SHRUB PLANTING SC 0T TO ALE 5P E D AH 50 TH TOP CF 00 BALL 5 EVE In. THE FINISHED GR DE 51 AL C11S OVER 0 FUG GUTI G WIRES 1II111 5 VE OR GUYING WIRES 2 STRAND TWIS 2 WAGE PARE 3 2 x2 PRESS TREATED STAKES 0P OF STAKE 6 ABOVE 500U O SPECIFIED PL n G 0 TE t 0 RE 0VC AIR POCKETS NOTE SAUCER 5 MONO 5 RE01RRE0 _I I 2 BALL DI LCH TREE PLANTING — GU" WIRES SCALE 0T TO SCALA STATE N IC3N.IJA�' NO 3 OUTLOT A 0319 _ t1-2� N890B55E -- -- -- 49146 SEE CIVIL FOR DRAINAGE AND GRADINCL SLOPE CONC. FOR BIT SURF FOR TRASH PIUC4 VT tr.p PT11Ef�+' 0-OGCO W IN FA �.mTt PyEL t0 yTOW °AIR � i ram' —� / / / / STATE N IG1-J41' / e / / SITE PLAN P 30'-0' DESCRIPTION LOT I BLOCK 2 BRADSHAW ADDITION Washington County Minnesota NO 3� / / SITE DATA: TOTAL AREA. 135.646 SF GREEN 4FEA. X 30% 40,694 BF FEGID 48045 SF PROVIDED 36% EILIILD1hH DATA, BLDG A 2 STORY 14786 5F / FLOOR 75912 BF GROW BLDG 8 I STORY 1100 SP GROSS FUTURE SITE TOTAL. 36717 SF GR055 ZCNNG REQUIREMENTS 3E0600 36212 5F 1313 CARS PAFSCMG REQUIRED / 36712 SF / 145 CARS OR 405/1000 TOTAL FIRST P14A8E BLOC A 78b12 SF / 116 GARS OR 406/1000 GENESIS • A WELSH COMPANY 7807 Creekrldge Circle Mznneapolw MN 55439 952 897 7874 Fax 952 897 7740 PROJECT STILLWATER OFFICE BUILDING STILLWATER, MN BREET SITE PLAN I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT 11416 PLAN. SPECFICATTCFL OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR UNDER ME OR WDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND TWIT I AM A DULY LICENSED ARCHITECT HOER THE LAWS CF THE STATE OF M38IESOTA LTNN D BLOAT WA DATE 05/24/2002 REG. NO 14163 ISSUE / REVISION DATE ISSUED 0524.02 JC& 20020541 DRAW BY NCB CHECKED BY LDS A001 PORTE COD4E2E LINE CC C. NQPY CONC. MLR 5 6 al j-. f VEST AL AREA 9 LANDSCAPE AREA GROSS BOOR AREA !EXTERIOR? NET FLOOR AREA (INTERIOR) VERNCAL P@IETRATICNS, FLOOR RENT/FER E AREA. FLOOR COPt1ON AREA, FLE)DialF104P1 F AREA, RAJ FACTOR TOTAL RAI FACTOR TOTAL DROSS FLOOR AREA. 142E6 SF 13869 SF 414 SF 13395 SF 1955 6F II,4h0 SP U7 % 112 28,511 SF r\ /'1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 L_J RENTAL AREA C 1 1 J RENTAL AREA A MY Q : Q tLT E COJ /41 4.40• 50'-6 RENTAL AREA 19 1 TRASH 1640' 80 6 let FLOOR PLAN VIP R-0' GENESIS 4 A WELSH COMPANY 7807 Creekrtdge Circle Minneapolis MN 55439 952 897 7874 Fax 952 897 7740 PROJECT STILLWATER OFFICE BUILDING STILLWATER, MN 1 t FLOOR PLAN I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAN, 13PEGWCAT1cW. OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY 1-IE OR RAIDER ME OR UNDER PRY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I AM A DULY LICENSED ARCHITECT UNDER THE LAWS CP THE STATE OP resew a LY161 D BLOAT AIA DATE 0517412002 REG. NO 14163 I64UE / REVISION DATE ISSUED 052402 JOB, 200245941 DRAON BY NC8 OEOTED BY LDS A100 r— I J r 4- g2nd FLOOR PLAN I/8r T-O` 4 GROSS FLOOR AREA (EXTERIOR). NET FLOOR AREA (INTERN VERTICAL PET4ETRATION°a FLOCK RENTABLE ATTA FLOOR carom AFEA FLOOR USEABLE AREA RAJ FACTOR TOTAL RAJ FACTOR TOTAL GROSS FLOOR AREA 14286 OF 13,014 8F 562 SF 0 5? 916 SF 3316 BF 101 t III t 70}4 5F r I I I I L _ J -1 J CANOPY OVER REAR ENTRY GENESIS A WELSH COMPANY 7807 Creekridge Circle Minneapolis MN 55439 952 897 7874 Fax 952 897 7740 PROJECT STILLWATER OFFICE BUILDING STILLWATER, MN SHEET 2nd FLOOR PLAN I HEREBY CERITFY THAT MS A.M. 5FECSCATICTL OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR IDER ME OR UNDER Ttt DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I Adz A DULY LIMBED ARCHITECT UNDER THE LASS OF THE STATE CF nBNESOTA LYIN 0 SWAT AJA. PATE 03,2412002 15811E / REVISION REG. NO 14163 DATE ISSUED 032402 JOB. 20020842 DRAW BY NCB CHECKED BY LDS iiMMENMEIMMI A101 11E111111111=1111MIMEI a gEXTERIOR ELEVATION yr No. ©EXTERIOR ELEVATION 1/8' EXTERIOR ELEVATION REAR ECM' CANOPY MATCH ROCFING MATERIAL CDEXTERIOR ELEVATION V8 P C4 PAS' PERS LI/ DESIGN MOTF ROLL UP INSULATED TRASH RI DOOR MAIN ENTRY ROCRING MATERJAL ALLII FRAMED LIGHT BRON MOD W/ I INSUL GLAZING. EIFS SPANDREL INDS C.00RVINATE 31/ BRICK COLOR STONE BASE ANCHOR BLOCK TEX1411IRE STONE KASOTA FIN( RANDOM COIRSING ARID RANDOM PROJECTICH FACE BRICK 111/ IN LAID BRICK DESIGN MOTE AND MASONRY SILL COURSING E.IFS_ ALIlt FRAMED LIGHT BRort ANOD W/ I NSUL GLAZ54. BASE MATERIAL GENESIS A WELSH COMPANY 7807 Creek -ridge Orrle Mumeapolts MN 55439 952 897 7874 Fax 952 897 7740 PROJECT STILLWATER OFFICE BUILDING STILLWATER, MN SHEET EXTERIOR ELEVATIONS I HEREBY CERTFT 7144T THIS FLAN. SPECIFICATICK OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BT PE OR UNDER ME OR UNDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND TNAT I AM A DULY LICENSED ARCHITECT LNDER LAL6 OF THE STATE CF f 5 at LTI.1 D GLOAT AIA DATE 05/24/7002 RF_S NO 14163 ISSUE / REvisKJA DATE ISSUED 052402 JOB- 2002.0542 DRAUN IST NO3 CHECKED BY LDS Miii/11.111.11 A200