40-44 North 3rd Avenue
Introduction
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Current building.
Source: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Property/HI49712
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Backstory and Context
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This double
commercial block was used as a furniture store during the 1880s although it may
have been constructed earlier than that. The second story is clad with large
concrete blocks, or panels. This type of building material, which was
manufactured in Sturgeon Bay by a Captain Kirtland in the years 1881 to 1882,
may have been applied as a veneer to an earlier frame structure. An ornately
detailed wood cornice, supported by scroll sawn brackets, remains. One side of
the building housed a saloon while the other was a furniture store and
undertaking establishment. Although both of the present storefronts have been
substantially modified, this building is of architectural significance as the
only example within the District of the application of this locally produced
building material.1