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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-07-09 PACKET 05.E.National Hotel Building • Paul Faller had a two -story frame hotel constructed on this site in 1855. It was named the Chaska House which it remained through a series of owners and managers. One of them was Ferdinand Hammer, who replaced the frame structure with this brick building in 1891. After the original National Hotel on Chestnut street ceased business, the name was transferred to this building. Hammer & Beierstettel • Building Mike Hammer and John Beierstet- tel, both of pioneer families, built this structure as a saddle and har- ness shop with residence rooms on the second floor. In the following years it operated as a saloon, tav- ern and restaurant, jewelry store I�r@ 123 E. 2nd Street vov� and salon. 107E. 2nd Street Walnut Street L PB E Chaska Herald 1871 • Building Housing the longest run— (� ning business in Chaska � ' O O dating back to 1862, the - Pine Chaska Herald build- - y, Street ing depicts a simplified l version of the Italianate style. Prominent features of this brick stmcmre 123 W 2nd Street include dentil course - work at the cornice, elongated windows with round arches above, and the arcaded front entrance with prominent stone keystones and impost blocks supporting cast iron columns. NATIONAL REGISTER K Linenfelser &Faber Building -- 116E. 2nd Street (1858) • Paul Faber convinced his younger brother George and Florian Linen - ""'�- felser to consider starting a business in Chaska. They came from California in 1857 and the next year built . this brick general store across from the Chaska House. The families of the partners lived on the second floor. This is now the oldest business building in Chaska. Carver County State Bank - -112 E 2nd Street (1884) J • Getting into the banking business, George A. DuToit rented space at the rear of the Franken Pharmacy in the Faber Building Walnut in 1874. By 1884 DuToies bank was so well established that he built this building. In 1904 the bank moved to a Street new building on Chestnut Street Four generations of the DuToit family were in banking in Chaska. Philip Henk Building 1872 I • Philip Henk erected this two - story building, with the lust floor used for dry goods and the second floor for meetings and social events. e Through several decades it also was the quarters of the Modern Wood- - -- - men of America, Masons, Grand Army of the Republic, American Legion and V.EW For more than 100 E. seven decades it was a tavern and restaurant operated by the Diedrick family. LA Chestnut Street a rEl Stree Hardware C Young Family House O • HenryYoung,anim- brothers were brick masons. migrant from Germany, was - me of the earliest settlers and go into hardware. He con- merchants. He built this home , Through successive owners it for his family. Four genera- remained a hardware store for _ 103 W. 2nd Street tions of the family lived there. —.. the building is the mason's artistic It continued as a residence and erated the store until the 1930's. in more recent years has also Chestnut 109 E. 2nd Street housed an antique shop. Street D GehPs Meat Market -- 1900 -- • Henry Gehl Sr. built a•tEk6tl frame butcher shop in Chaska in 1881. Thatstructute was destroyed by a 1900 fire which 1u ruined other buildings along West Second Street. This brick structure replaced the old shop } soon after the fire. The butcher shop was on the first floor and - Gehl residence above. The meat O business continued there until 112 W 2nd Street the 196o's. E Chaska Herald 1871 • Building Housing the longest run— (� ning business in Chaska � ' O O dating back to 1862, the - Pine Chaska Herald build- - y, Street ing depicts a simplified l version of the Italianate style. Prominent features of this brick stmcmre 123 W 2nd Street include dentil course - work at the cornice, elongated windows with round arches above, and the arcaded front entrance with prominent stone keystones and impost blocks supporting cast iron columns. NATIONAL REGISTER K Linenfelser &Faber Building -- 116E. 2nd Street (1858) • Paul Faber convinced his younger brother George and Florian Linen - ""'�- felser to consider starting a business in Chaska. They came from California in 1857 and the next year built . this brick general store across from the Chaska House. The families of the partners lived on the second floor. This is now the oldest business building in Chaska. Carver County State Bank - -112 E 2nd Street (1884) J • Getting into the banking business, George A. DuToit rented space at the rear of the Franken Pharmacy in the Faber Building Walnut in 1874. By 1884 DuToies bank was so well established that he built this building. In 1904 the bank moved to a Street new building on Chestnut Street Four generations of the DuToit family were in banking in Chaska. Philip Henk Building 1872 I • Philip Henk erected this two - story building, with the lust floor used for dry goods and the second floor for meetings and social events. e Through several decades it also was the quarters of the Modern Wood- - -- - men of America, Masons, Grand Army of the Republic, American Legion and V.EW For more than 100 E. seven decades it was a tavern and restaurant operated by the Diedrick family. LA Chestnut Street a rEl Stree Hardware H Oesterrelch • Three Oesterreich 1883 brothers were brick masons. One of them, Ewald, decided to t {el go into hardware. He con- structed this budding in1903. , Through successive owners it d. d -_- remained a hardware store for _ 103 W. 2nd Street several decades. Noteworthy on the building is the mason's artistic adornment. Building G Diacon • In 1883 Nicholas 1883 Schoenborn started a saloon in this building. Lucian Diacon, TJ Swiss watchmaker, bought the building in 1900 to conduct his jewelry business and live in it with his two daughters. He trained one of them in watch making and jewelry, and she op- erated the store until the 1930's. This is another example of repli- 105 W. 2nd Stree cation of the original front. F Deuhs- Baxter Buildings Pine i • This is a combination of two buildings Street cated old fronts. In 1886 187811 it was purchased by Gerhard Deuhs, who started a confec- tionery store.When he added groceries,® the business required erecting the brick building on the right in 1899, joining the — two. Mr. Deaths; daughter, Elizabeth Bax- ter, took over the business after his death, continuing it for several decades. 107 -09 W. 2nd Street -1 U "N'3 K '. Chaska is a town rich in tradition, charm and industrial spirit. American Indians known as the Mound Builders were some of the first people to settle the area that is now Chaska, starting around 1200 BC. The Mdewakanton Dakota followed, and by 1769, they were the primary nation in this area. Native American tribes remained active in the area well into the twentieth century. Though the area was first called "Little Rapids," the eventual name — of the city, Chaska, is actually traced to a Dakota word meaning the first -born son. In 1766, early British explorer Jonathan Carver began to map out the area while searching for a west water route to the Pacific Ocean. A treaty between the Dakota and the US Govern- ment opened the area to settlement in 1851. Thomas Andrew Holmes canoed up the Minnesota Rivet to become Chaskas first settler. Chaska became the County Seat in 1856 and was platted by the Chaska Company in 1857, one year before Minnesota became a state. Most early settlers relocated from the East Coast, drawn by the area's fertile farmlands and river location. Many were of German ethnicity, . with some Scandinavians as well. Chaska was incorporated as a village in 1871 and became a city in 1891. The town quickly grew ... into an industrial leader due to its connection to the river and two railroads, its position as the County Seat, and its rich natural resources — making bricks from clay deposits, cutting timber from the remaining Big Woods, and processing agricultural products such as milling flour, refining beet sugar, canning, and Pickling. Today, Chaska is home to many nationally known industries. Chaska remained a small town just outside of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, until the 1960s, when suburban expansion reached the city and the establishment of Jonathan. Despite amaz- ing growth and development, the city has managed to maintain the heritage and community spirit of a "Quality Small Town," due in large part to its historic downtown. Chaska has had a century -long romance with brick. Lucien Howe, an immigrant from Vermont, started producing brick sometime around 1857, just three years after incorporation of the City. Pro- duction of brick continued until the early 19606. During that 100 year period, brick manufacturing was the city's leading industry for eight decades (the last four decades during the nineteenth century and the first four decades of the twentieth century). The prosper- ity of the town was intertwined widt the success of the brickyards. Between the years of 1870 -1895, the brickyards employed up to 20% of the town's entire population, and it was not uncom- mon for three to faro generations of families in Chaska to find employment in the brickyards. Chaska's residents eagerly awaited the Chaska Weekly Valley Herald's yearly prediction of brick production m predict howprosperous the local economy was going to be for the coming year. Chaska was a leader in brick production in Minnesota during those 100 years. The town at one point led all towns an d cities, including Minneapolis and St Paul, in the production of brick. The St. Paul Pioneer Press stated in February, 1882, that "Chaska has grown to be a brick center." In 1907, Chaska produced 30% of all the brick made in the entire state, churning out 40 to 60 million bricks per year. Chaskas prominence in the brick industry is still physically evident in towns and cities for miles around. It is -a fact that currently there is not a street in older Chaska which does not have from one to several brick structures. Some of Minneapolis' historic gems were construct- ed of Chaska brick: the Grain Belt Brewery, Renaissance Square, and Minneapolis' Flour Mills, to name a few, Even the basement walls of the State Capitol were built with two million Chaska brick. To this day, there are still many Chaska brick farmhouses throughout Carver County (over 60). The romance n r f^ y between the core - { }}�J d �ti l�1 L,�Y, munity and brick r r 5' 4 goes on, even I4� { l;4�f)� ,M7�(Y� after 150 years. _ . ,'ti The unsightly {t Ii , " ")� pits from which clay was mmed, through natural springs and dram r� /l„ F rr r:. l i age, have become - beautiful lakes in - Chaska's parks. r ' ARCH ITECTURE / DESIGN Many of Chaskas historic buildings were constructed in the late 19th and early 20th century as the Chaska brick business was bring- ing prosperity to the town. Similar to many small towns, Chaska's historic buildings represent not one but several revival architectural styles commonly used in the Victorian em. The most prominent revival styles represented are Italianate and Queen Anne. The historic buildings of t Chaska ex- - - a � hibit defining j elements of the architectural - style to which they belong while adding - -_- features unique - to the town, like Chaska brick. The . commercial buildings, such as the Chaska Herald, portray characteristics of a revival style in a simplified and reduced way, as do many of the homes throughout Chaska. Conversely, some homes, like the Eder - Baer house, dis- play more overt examples of the distinctive characteristics of their respec- tive styles. a i - 1 Although the commercial } buildings have MV taken on dif- ferent uses and the homes have new owners, the distinguishing features of many of Chashas histori- cal buildings remain intact. As a result several of the buildings have been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places and collectively listed as the Walnut Street historic district. The preservation of ChmVs revival homes and commer- cial buildings from the highly decorative to the simple, gives the city its unique combination of historic architecture. P RESERVATION EF FORTS the City of Chaska has a long history of activelyprescrving its historic resources as part of its goal of being the "Best Small Town in Minnesota.' Even before Historic Preservation became popular, - Walnut Street was listed as an Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places as well as seven individual buildings in 1980. F . In 1989, die City adopted a Historic Preservation Ordi- nance which estab- lished the Planning n� iA Commission as the Heritage Preservation Commission and set I forth various criteria and standards for d,b designating historic buildings, sites and districts. Between the years of 1992 and 2006, the city designated 56 sites as locally historic properties. In 2002, the City significandy expanded and revised its Heritage Preservation Ordinance in order to meet the specific require- ments for qualifying as a Certified Local Government (CLG). The city also established the Heritage Preservation Commission as a separate commission from the Planning Commission. In 2003, the City of Chaska applied for and became a Certified Local Govern- ment. W The City's most significant investment to the downtown was contributing $11 million doll= (out of the $45 million project) for the construction of the levee and creek diversion project, which has prevented the Minnesota River from flooding the downtown -.. " -- and has enabled property owners to comfortably invest in their -- homes and commercial buildings. _. The City of Chaska has also financially assisted in the improve- ments to the following historic. buildings: • Philip Henk Building • Deuhs- Baxter Buildings "! Chaska Flour " Mill r „ Chaska Bakery -' • Minneapolis & St. Louis Depot (- • Athletic Park Sugar Factory - Offices on Stoughton Avenue Most recently, the City has commissioned the creation of a Down- town Master Plan that will provide an economic development strategy for the long -term sustainability of Chaskas downtown. For more information about the City of Chaska and its history, please visit the City's website at: www.chaskama.com w i ._ � oz A b °.� yppy _ xp��9 xo w` o W x e ;S o zW�egW "o �Sg a °n b =v =� _ s mil 3g 3 5 i� a r III \ \\ a fl °1 3 o W Era 5E.5� 02 5� v o e v a�WaE 3$w o gp �b�5'� m � o K 0 'r W dz e6 9 .$� 5 b g� 2 1 =,-� �a F $ � d b v g� a W T s Ov V 1r�NH� g.L d q 5 M m tl 5 ° C _., paagSTP L11 ®' W�l -1�J b � A E V m h 6 b W° ao q 1 ti tl µVS F 96 � d yw9'G o2 -8w =a5 d uaays —0 It cX C n o u raausrua /� � rauigm.usay� appw aawsa °,aJ h IIECIT L� — ::a„s •. 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