Portage Retail Historic District

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

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

Description

The site is a business district located near the Portage Canal.[3] Buildings within the district include the 1866 Italianate City Brewery,[4] the 1873 Italianate Graham Drug Company,[5] the 1881 Italianate Williams Shoes and Harness shop,[6] the 1889 Queen Anne Hillyer Block (which housed the High Priced Grocery),[7] the 1891 3-story Italianate Beattie Block,[8] the 1927 Georgian Revival Portage Theater,[9] the 1927 Ram Hotel,[10] and the 1929 Art Deco City Bank of Portage.[11] It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 1994 and to the National Register of Historic Places the following year.[12]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "Portage Retail Historic District". Travel Wisconsin. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  3. Joyce McKay (1993-09-07). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Portage Retail Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  4. "Eulberg Brewery Saloon/Haertel Brewing". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  5. "Graham Drug Co". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  6. "James S. Williams Shoes & Harness; James Dousir Grocery". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  7. "Hillyer Block". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  8. "Beattie Block". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  9. "Fischer Paramount Theatres Co". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  10. "Ram Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  11. "First Wisconsin Bank; City Bank of Portage". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  12. "Roughly, Cook from Wisconsin to Main, Wisconsin from Cook to Edgewater and DeWitt from Conant to Edgewater". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
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