Sharp Corner Tavern - Hermann, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of building: Gasconade County
Location of building: Market St. & W. 5th St., - NW corner, Hermann
Built: 1853-1856
Architectural Style: Commercial with Italianate Detailing

"414 Market Street, Johann P. Mueller Commercial Building, c. 1853-1856, Contributing (survey #318)
Large corner commercial building on a stone foundation with stuccoed stone walls (stuccoing either original or in place by the 1880s). The building has a low pitched hipped metal roof with gabled dormers on the two street elevations and metal cresting around the apex. A wood cornice with scrolled brackets extends across the roofline on all sides. The Market Street elevation has four evenly spaced second story windows with stuccoed stone headers and sills. The first floor has been clad in Permastone and has a centered display window with recessed entrances on the two corners. The 5th Street elevation has five bays of windows on both floors and a rear frame addition." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"Built between 1853 and 1856 by Johann Peter Mueller. Mueller was a member of the German Settlement Society joining while he lived in Cleveland Ohio. The census of industry in 1850 indicates that Mueller was a successful brewer and distiller producing 800 gallons of beer and fifty gallons of Brandy in 1850 at a value of $500.It is likely that he operate at the location on Market while his residence was on E. Wharf street. In the early l850s Mueller built the present stuccoed building selling it shortly after in 1857 through a deed of trust to Caspar Schubert at a reduced market value for the benefit of Magarethe Kesselring. Soon after the property was sold to Louis Austermull who ran a dry goods and grocery business here for many years. In the early l880s William Braendle purchased the building and added a saloon. In 1883 Braendle had the concrete stucco painted to imitate ashlar stone. Two years later he added a 'new iron portico' --no longer extant--which probably looked like a number of similar ones which survive in Hermann. Between 1908 and 1917 the two story frame addition was made to the rear of the building. Building has for years been called 'Sharp corner' because of the 90 degree angle--difficult for horse teams--where the primary west road entered the main street of the town.

"General description: two- and one-half-story rectangle-shaped stone building with a full cellar beneath.

"Setting: this commercial building sits at the property line on both of the street elevations on this corner lot." ~ DNR Historic Survey   PDF page 548