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Farmers and Citizens Bank
300 E Main
1916 note: Built by Ferdinand Behlke, General Contractor
1908
07 10 RADTKE’S SALOON
Frank Tercinski
has sold his business block at the northeast corner of Main and North Third
streets [pre Farmers & Citizens Bank building; Watertown Booksellers] to
Gustav Buchheit, who purchased it for the
Milwaukee-Waukesha Brewing Co., the consideration being $14,000. The front part of the building will be
remodeled and fitted out at once as a saloon to be occupied by Wm. C. Radtke. The rear part of the block on Third Street
occupied by Henry Fendt
[Sr] as a saloon will still be occupied by him. WG
09 18 RADTKE’S CENTRAL CAFÉ
The
Central Cafe at the northeast corner of Main and North Third streets, presided
over by Wm. C Radtke, a prince of good fellows, is now open for business. It is one of the finest in the city and is
well stocked with everything in the cafe line.
WG
1911
10 19 NEW BANK FOR
WATERTOWN
A new bank will
probably be opened in the Central Block, northeast corner of Main and North
Third streets in this city, in the near future by prominent east side
financiers, who are now taking the preliminary steps to establish it. WG
11 02 NEW BANK READY FOR BUSINESS
July, 1, 1912, a new bank to be opened here and
known as the Farmers City Bank of Watertown will be ready for business in the Central
Block, [northeast] corner of Main and North Third streets, in the building now
occupied by the William Dahms saloon. The capital stock will be $50,000. WG
1912 DAHMS SALOON AND RESTURANT
Wm. Dahms Saloon
and Restaurant at 300 Main St, 1912
Watertown City Directory. Implication is
that Dahms occupied the FRONT portion of the
building.
1912 FARMERS CITY BANK OPENS
1937
09 04 25th
ANNIVERSARY
Farmers-Citizens
Bank is 25 Years Old Today .... Located at Main & N. 3rd Streets was opened
9/5/1912. The bank, which opened in the
same building where it has been located throughout its 25 years, acquired the
building 15 years ago from the Buchheit estate. Many improvements have been made in the
interior of the building since the institution was first organized, among them
being a modern protective system. . . .
1956
08 21 BANK BUILDING SOLD
The former Farmers and Citizens
Bank building at Main and North Third Streets has been sold. The new owner is Simplified Records, Inc.,
headed by W. R. Ninabuck, 415 1/2 Main Street. Announcement of the sale was made by Mr. Ninabuck and L. J. Lange, president of the Bank of Watertown who headed a group of
individuals here which purchased the building at the time the Farmers and
Citizens Bank decided to liquidate and go out of business, with the Bank of
Watertown taking over its services. WDT
11 25 CLOTHING SHOP TO
OCCUPY FORMER BANK BLDG
Vaults in the old Farmers and
Citizens Bank building are being blasted out to make room for a new store which
will occupy the main floor premises beginning sometime in February. The new business will be a boys' clothing
shop and will be operated by John Casey of Madison who expects to move to the
city sometime in January with his wife and family of four children. Mr. Casey has been working in the clothing
business at Madison for ten years and four years at Lansing, Mich. The main
floor quarters at North Third and Main Streets are expected to be ready for the
business to open sometime in February, W.R. Ninabuck
who heads the corporation that purchased the bank building when the bank went
out of business and its assets were taken over by the Bank of Watertown,
announced this morning. WDT
1954
06 26 42nd ANNIVERSARY YEAR
-- -- 1954
CENTENNIAL PARADE FLOAT
1957
CASEY'S BOYS
SHOP, 300 E Main
Cross References:
Death
of Richard Hoge, 1983
Herman Wertheimer,
was a president of the Farmers & Citizens Bank
History of Watertown,
Wisconsin