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#2 16th Street, "Boury Building

 

Legal Description: E. Zane Addition, Square 9, Lots 1, 2, and 3.

Informally referred to as the “Hubbard Saw Mill Property”

 

  • 1850 – purchased by Chester and Henry Hubbard from Isaac Mitchell for $12,250.

  • 1890 – purchased by Henry Baer for $16,000

  • 1892 – purchased by Baer Sons Grocery Co. for $30,000

  • 1899 – lawsuit resulting in ownership by Morris, Louis, Julius, and Bernhard Horkheimer and their wives. Also shown as transferring to the Horkheimers in 1901.

    • 1901-2 City Directory lists:

      • Horkheimer Brothers (Morris, Bernhard, Julius, & Louis) dealers in wool, also exporters of ginseng, office corner of 16th & Main)

      • Baer Grocer Company, wholesale grocers, coffee roasters & spice mills, office & warehouse corner of 16th & Main

  • 1906 – to Baer Grocery Company from the Horkheimers for $42,500

    • Note: Bernhard Horkheimer was killed in the building on July 7, 1906. His death certificate states the cause of death as “accidently killed by being crushed between cars and Baer Bros. Wholesale Building”

    • 1907-9 City Directory – no listing for #2 16th Street, but Horkheimer Brothers (Morris, Louis, & Julius) is listed at 1600 Main Street

    • 1917-18 City Directory – Baer Grocer Co (wholesale), B.S. Baer, pres; Joseph H. Baer, sec. Wholesale grocers 16th & Main.

  • 1920 – to Archie b. Marcus from Baer Grocery Company

    • 1921-22 City Directory shows three businesses are 2 16th Street:

      • Union Warehouse & Storage company (along with a half-page ad for the company “General Merchandise Storage, Distributing and Forwarding” - connected with all railroads)

      • Horkheimer Brothers Wool (Julius and Louis Horkheimer)

      • Atlas Grocery Company (H.F. Menkemeller).

  • 1953 – to Ralph L. Miller from Union Warehouse Holding Company, trustee for Archie B. Marcus, then from Miller to Louis Marx and Company

  • 1976 – to Boury, Inc.

  • 1990 – to MEG Properties for $490,000

  • 1995 – to 808 Corporation

  • 2007 – to Edward Gompers, Land Sale - $8000, then to 404 Partners, LLC.

 

 

Prepared by Jeanne Finstein

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