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[[Image:BISHOP.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]BISHOP'S BLOCK. The Bishop's Block was listed on the [[NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES]] in 1994.  The architect of the building located at 90 W. Main Street was Franklin D. Hyde. The building of limestone, brick, adobe and asphalt was constructed in 1889 in the style of [[ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE]].  
[[Image:BISHOP.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]BISHOP'S BLOCK. The Bishop's Block was listed on the [[NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES]] in 1994.  The architect of the building located at 90 W. Main Street was Franklin D. Hyde.
 
Constructed of limestone, brick, adobe and asphalt, the structure represents an early and massive warehouse design indicating the growing importance of jobbing and warehousing to the city’s economy. Marshall M. Walker, wholesale grocers occupied the new building for five years, followed by the John T. Hancock Company, and after 1908 the Western Grocery Company. The last named was here into the 1950s. (1)
 
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Site Inventory Form, State Historical Society of Iowa, Online: http://www.cityofdubuque.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/2927, p. 7
 


The Bishop's Block was once the location of Walker and Company, a wholesale produce seller, and later by the [[WESTERN GROCER COMPANY]]. It was then used as a warehouse.


[[Category: Buildings]]
[[Category: Buildings]]
[[Category: Architecture]]
[[Category: Architecture]]

Revision as of 02:24, 29 March 2014

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BISHOP'S BLOCK. The Bishop's Block was listed on the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES in 1994. The architect of the building located at 90 W. Main Street was Franklin D. Hyde.

Constructed of limestone, brick, adobe and asphalt, the structure represents an early and massive warehouse design indicating the growing importance of jobbing and warehousing to the city’s economy. Marshall M. Walker, wholesale grocers occupied the new building for five years, followed by the John T. Hancock Company, and after 1908 the Western Grocery Company. The last named was here into the 1950s. (1)

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Source:

Site Inventory Form, State Historical Society of Iowa, Online: http://www.cityofdubuque.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/2927, p. 7