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In 2012, the city installed 13 bronze signs on Eudora’s downtown buildings with funding from the Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council. 

Early business in Eudora clustered along Main Street between Fifth Street and Eighth Street (with several storefronts on Church Street). Shoppers during Eudora’s earliest years strolled under wooden balconies and on wooden sidewalks later paved with bricks in the late 1890s, and, several decades later, concrete. Piecing together which business was where and when is an ongoing puzzle because addresses weren’t given and also changed. And, like today, often businesses came and went within a couple of months. Another difficulty in pinpointing specific businesses and owners is that buildings came and went; thus, references to businesses that no longer exist present challenges. 

Primarily based on newspaper mentions since 1889, the following compilation is also based on the manuscript Remembering My First Eudora Days by Frank Page, 1912 and 1927 Sanborn maps, “Main Street Fifty Years Ago” by Mrs. L. K. Robinson in the Eudora newspaper’s 50th anniversary issue, Henrietta Fuller’s 1975 interview published in the local newspaper, Eudora Community Heritage, Fern Long’s 1987 “Eudora Historical Route,” telephone directories, news items, and personal interviews and observations.  

 North of Burlington Northern-Santa Fe railroad tracks: C.J. Achning Grocery, (1870-?) shown to left also may have been the two-story frame building here on lots 3, 18, and 19 in Block 143 used as a bakery by the Spietz family before 1900 and a dwelling by the John Everley family and Olive Strachen in early 1900s.

The Schleifer restaurant and grocery (1860s-1892) also was north of the railroad tracks on Main Street. Louis Moll ran a bakery and confectionery in the former Schleifer building from 1893 to 1895.

530 Main: Presently used as crop storage, Hi-Tech Antifreeze Recycling, and cabinetry shop, this property, which was built closer to Elm Street than Main Street, was the Eudora Feed and Grain (also known as Farmers Elevator, Farmers Union Co-op, and Farmers Co-op Elevator) from 1918 to 2003 with the Eudora Mills, formerly known as Jewett Milling Company and Eudora Milling Company, built in 1886, directly east. The original building on the elevator site was constructed in 1918 when a group of farmers formed the Farmers Co-op Elevator. Earlier, a different building housed Oscar Bradford’s warehouse (1908-?), Phenicie grocery (1894-1901) (although another report says Ras Phenicie, who died in Indiana in 1916, left Eudora in 1896), and Gufler House (grocery and bar) (1860s-1892). When this house with a store in front was razed, its lumber joined with “old style, cut nails” was said to be in “perfect preservation” by a 1937 The Eudora Weekly News article. Farmers Elevator used its wood to build its coal sheds and a warehouse. 

Now an extension of Eudora City Hall, the [Jim Rawte’s] Blacktop Construction and Paving (1995- 2005?) and [Jim Reese’s] Eudora Auto Trim (1974-1994), 30-by-40-foot metal building, stands here on the site of several past businesses. The 30-by-40-foot metal building at Seventh Street next to Eudora City Hall was built in 1974 to house Eudora Auto Trim upholstering business owned by John Reese. For example, the building that burned in 1966 once was Cue and Paddle Club, Southern Baptist Church, Dr. Leo Lauber’s office and laundromat, office of chiropractors Dr. Swift and Dr. Snyder, a first grade classroom, Eudora Cash Hardware (1945-1947), and Victory Theater (1943-1953). William Trefz, Jr. had a tinshop in this location that was bought by P.O. Beem, Phillipsburg, in 1911 who also bought E. C. Whitten’s hardware store the same year and operated them about a year before selling to George Vaile or Vale, from Fall Leaf,. Before Beem and Trefz was Robert Gabriel, Gus Fiehler, and Carl Durr and Berthhold Durr, his brother, who bought John Brender’s hardware store in 1895; by 1897, the Durr brothers were running the implement and hardware operation. John and F. L. Brender tore down an old, earlier building in 1892 and put up a new one for blacksmith work and hardware sales. Herman White, a tinsmith, worked with the Brenders until 1894. C. L. Fuller, Topeka, bought the business in 1912, unaware that the other hardware dealer in town had the same last name. Fuller sold mostly implements at his Eudora Hardware Company and had a large warehouse on the northeast part of the building with an Elm Street entrance for tractors. The Fullers had a McCormick-Deering line of International Harvester. C.L. Fuller joined his father in business in 1919 and took over the business at his father’s death in 1932. Henrietta Schubert Fuller wrote on an interior photo that “Eudora Hardware Company was located on 7th Street between Main and Elm and later housed Victory Theater. Son Clarence operated the business until 1939 when Keith Starr bought and ran it before it became the Victory Theater. C.G. Kerwitz was the “machinery man” at the store when Starr bought it. Hubert (“Funny”) Woodard opened a garage in the room east of C.L. Fuller’s hardware store in 1929. Elmer Ziegler Garage (1935-1937) operated closer to Elm Street on the north side of Seventh Street, too. It was housed adjacent to the former Zimmerman blacksmith and hardware shop. Jack Hawkins and Bert Hawkins had a garage here in 1945, which was taken over Dan Davis (1946-1947). Harold Morley built a garage in 1955 and sold it in 1976. The Eudora City Council voted in 2005 to buy the buildings at this site. 

 Charles Lothholz put a foundation in on this site in early 1896 for his bank, but didn’t start constructing his impressive red pressed brick building with buff colored water table midway until 18 months later. Built for the Kaw Valley State Bank, which operated in the north part of the first floor, and a general store in the south and a basement barber shop, this 100,000 brick building (with water initially channeled by compressed air) now encompasses the corner section, a unit to the east, two to the south (701 1/2, 702), and a private residence upstairs that was originally the Lothholz Opera House (also known as Lothholz Hall or Opry House that operated until the 1930s). The opera hall, lit with acetylene gas lights as the rest of the building, had an 8-foot by 30-foot stage with 300 seating capacity. Its motto was: Protum Transimus Oceanus Prae Nos Patet (“We have crossed the bay, the ocean lies before us.”) Later, the space housed professional offices, for example, those of J.G. Lee, physician, and J. H. Duffy, dentist, in 1915 and dentist L.C. Cox in 1925, and even classrooms in 1918 when the new high school didn’t open on time. Before the bank was built, an “unsightly” frame building that extended into the alley here housed the Eudora Elevator Company office (1892), John Hagenbuch notary public service, (1892-?), and Schubert furniture store (1881 to around 1890) and earlier, Christian Fischer operated a tin shop and furniture store here a few years until 1881. Slightly east was Schubert and Meineke Coal Company, and, in 1889, Kraus & Abels bought the coal business of P.D. Meineke after his death. In recent years, the former bank area has housed a private design studio, the law office of Amy Durkin (2009- ?); Madame Hatter’s Tea Room (opened in 2002 by Thomas and Lauren Smith and bought Nov. 1, 2004, by Bonnie Freeland, Shawnee, and Susan Orscheln, Lenexa; closed 2009); Westminister Tea Room (Oct. 2001- 2002); Traditions furniture store (1999-2002); three video stores [the first one opened by a Linwood couple, then Darren and DeAnn Howell and Wrights, and, in 1997, Terri and Roger Rose) video rental and arcade (circa1996-1998); dental clinic; Community Baptist Church; [Delmar Alpers’] The Key restaurant (1970s); and [Keith Murphy’s] Gilded Cage tavern (1961-1966) later moved, to eastern outskirts of Tenth Street to former slot car manufactory, etc. The basement housed other businesses such as Fred Ziesenis, Jr. shoe shop (1942-1946), Groves Café (1918-1919), George Fullers’ pool hall and barber shop (circa 1908), and Tarleton & Smith billiard hall (circa 1903). Northeast section of 700: Currently not used as a store area, it used to house Diana Breithaupt beauty salon (1990-1996), ice cream parlor (circa 1980s), [Helen Everley’s] antique store (1980s), and a grocery (early 1900s). 700 1/2: Entrance to residence. 702/704: This area has been used by Twill Trade Boutique (2017-); Indie Olive (stationary press) (2014- 2016); Curves, a fitness franchise that focuses on 30 minute workouts (October 2006-2009); HomeTown Dollar general store (owner Genny Rose, 2004-2005); Custom Frame Cart framing service (2003); Broers flower shop (1983-2001); Starlight Tavern (1970s); post office (1920s-1962); confectionary (circa 1912); Joseph Schopper’s shooting gallery “first door south of Kaw Valley bank” (1911); and E.L. Cooper watchmaking ship (circa 1909). Others in this building but exact location unknown, include Elmer Everely’s barber shop (1928-1941), George Wolf’s dentist office (1940-1950), Bernice Wilson beauty shop (1941-1951), Frank Martin’s restaurant (1950-1952), Clarence Williams’ watch repair and jewelry shop (1950s), Fern Reusch’s Mimi’s Fabric Ship (1967-1969), and Kenneth and Sharon Lawson beauty shop (1977-1978). 

The Hammert Building has housed Edward Jones Financial; [Mary Kirkendoll] Yoga Center/Senior Center/Chamber of Commerce (2015- 2020); Pennie Annie’s Sweet Shop (2011-2013); Family Memories, Family Memories scrapbook supply store, owned by Barb Burkart and her mother, Sandi Roberts (2004) (as seen in photograph to right); and previously Judy’s Gifts (1999-2001), Salvage Outlet (1990s); donut store (1980s); Robert Hilt cabinet shop (opened in 1975); Gra-Mor Cabinet Shop (1972-1974) owned by Lester Grazier; [Aileen Wallace] The Wardrobe clothing store (1968-1969);[Pat Eisenbarger] Pat’s Dress Shop; (1967-1968); [Elva Ruth O’Berg’s] Eudora Fabric Store (1965-1967 who bought from Mrs. John Reusch who operated it in 1963 directly across the street where the store was until 1965; the O’Bergs bought their building in 1963 from Ernest Papenhausen and John Cairns and their wives); [William] Ziesenis Confectionery (1909-1950) (Ziesenis bought the building in 1916 and C. B. Johnson had a medical office over the store in the 1920s that had housed Hedden Hats in 1904); post office (1909); James Milburn and Will “Hoppy” Ziesenis confectionary (1908-1909); Mote Jamison confectionary (1906-1908); J. Milt “Smike’s” Tarleton confectionery and cigar stand (1893-1906) [note: these two confectionaries were said to be two doors south of Kaw Valley Bank]; and Bernhard W. Hammert drugs, cigar, tobacco, and stationery. Hammert, the husband of the Marfilius’ adopted daughter, Christina, sold his drug store contents to Homer White in October 1893. This building was built before 1873, probably by Casper Marfilius. His wife, Maggie, who married John Hammert after Casper’s death, in 1875 operated a saloon here with a possible 704 address. There was a well in basement to chill the beverages. One account says she ran the saloon until 1897, which makes the operation concurrent with Hammert’s. 706 1/2: Entrance to private residence. In 1922, a newspaper mention said Grant Edelbrock lived between “Billy Ziesenis restaurant and Home Bakery.” A fire gutted the building November 26, 1977. It also was the last storefront on Main Street to have a wooden canopy, which was removed in the 1950s.

The razed three-story “White Building” that used to contain James Lenahan real estate and insurance (1956-1958; Ernest Weixeldorfer television and repair (1951-1957); Don Joslin television and radio repair (1948-1951); Elmer Everley’s barber shop (1926-1929); [J.G. Hofacker’s] Home Bakery (1923-1924); [Bill Willey’s] Home Bakery (1923-1923); and Bett’s Blue Ribbon bakery, also known as the Home Bakery (1909-1923); and Homer White pharmacy (1893-1903) before moving to 711 Main. Homer was the son of David White, who had a pharmacy here (1880-1893). The upstairs did serve as offices from time to time. For example, Dr. Butel had his offices there in 1911. [Note: T. L. Haelsig had a shop around here in 1890, because it was located three doors south of Kraus and Abel; however, that company was located near the east alley and not really on Main Street. A May 22, 1969 Eudora Enterprise article said it also contained a tavern at one time and was an eyesore and taxes hadn’t been paid on it since 1957; interior photographs showed debris and severe damage from vandals and non-repair. A 1980s EAHS tour guide by Fern Long says this was originally the 3-story general merchandise store of Asher Cohn and Bernstein; however this conflicts with map reports. 

Fred Rothberger built a 75-foot building here in 1926 for a Chevrolet automobile agency auto parts storage; and later extended it to alley Since then, the building has been used by Eudorable Home (Courtney Gebauer, home décor) (2021-2023); Wakarusa Brewery (2012-2020); Eudora Relics (antiques) seen in photograph to right (2001- ?), [Leland and Jane] Massey’s Flea Market (1999- 2001), Coast to Coast Hardware (1945-1998), and William Schopper drycleaner (1934-1935).  

The 1873 Atlas of Douglas County shows Asher Cohn with a building on Lot 4, and abstracts show he sold the property to Aaron Hill in 1882. Cohn had a department store from at least 1860s (maybe earlier) here (and built a rear addition in 1873) to 1880. The Cohn family lived on the third floor and sold the building to Gardner, Hill, and Company that built a south section that made it a double storefront building. Aaron L. Hill, a Quaker born in Guilford County, North Carolina, established the Gardner, Hill, & Company general merchandise store on this site with P. Gardner and W. Davis on January 1, 1880. Gardner, Hill, and Company (1880-1909) housed groceries to the left and dry goods on the right with Mr. Mitchell selling coal back of the building circa 1890. Eudora Cash Shoe Store moved into the store in 1892. Miss Specks dressmaking service (1892-?), Tena Smith’s dressmaking parlor around 1900, The Eudora News (1910-1920), and Mattie Keroher’s millinery (1911) operated upstairs. Alice Ogle also had a shop upstairs; she made dresses there in the 1880s. The store changed owners three times in five months after it was bought by W.W. Arnold of Kansas City in 1909, then H. M. Kemper, and, a few months later, C. B. Mason, who named it the Eudora Department Store (1909-1911). Main St Scoops and Sweets (2022) [Stacie and Mark Blubaugh] and Fuse Candle (2023, Suite 1)--Glen Weld (2019) bought the building and obtained federal grants to restore it--Past and Present Treasures (2011-?)  [LaDonna Russell] Stable System Solutions (computer installation and repair); Broers Flowers (2001-2007), Coast to Coast hardware operated from this building and the connecting 710 Main building (1977-1990s) (seen in photograph to right in 1999), [Gary and Betty Vermillion] Market Basket Grocery (1972-1977), Merlin’s Eisenbarger’s Hy-Klas Grocery (1968-1972), [Howard Wilson and Jack Howard] Hy-Klas grocery (1946-1968) (also known as Clover Farm Store in 1948 when groceries were still part of the Eudora Department Store); J.D. Kuhn Department store and the Eudora Department Store owned by Carl Lotz and George Schubert (October 11, 1911-1949) with J.D. Kuhn, a founding partner, also. 

 J. A. Seybold owned this site and built a stone building on the north that connects to brick building on the south in 1883. Seybold Hardware (1870s-1887) was bought by W. A. Fuller in 1888, which Fuller operated there a few years before moving to the southwest corner of Eighth Street and Main Street. John Schubert used the building from 1892 to 1897. The post office took over Schubert’s space and was mentioned being here in 1916. The Warsop livery barn was said to in the north part in early 1900s. William Trefz Jr. tin shop (until 1925) then Herman Trefz Plumbing, Heating, and Electric (1925-1962), and later [Fred] Trefz Plumbing (until the 1990s) also occupied the building, which used for storage after that time. The upstairs probably was used for offices and apartments, for example, Dr. C. B. Miller and Dr. Mary Miller had an office upstairs in 1923. In 2015, the Eudora Community Museum opened here. 

Photographs below of Fuller hardware, empty Trefz Plumbing (2004), and museum (2015).

This brick 20-foot by 60-foot, one story building with a metal roof, was erected in 1915. It replaced an earlier building known as the Epple Building in which J.W. Caldwell (and son as of 1888) had the City Barber Shop (1880-1895) and employed Charles Arndorf before the Caldwells moved to Kansas City to open a barber shop there. Solon Ellis (1895-early 1900s.) also had a barber shop in this former building. When the Trefz Variety Store (1915-1976) closed, the building was vacant for many years. In more recent years, Robert Musick had a carpentry shop here (1990s); Seasons (2001) sold gardenware here for a spring and summer; Pat Trefz had antiques (2001-2002) in Home Again Interiors, L.L.C. and the Nookery with Wendy Gish; That One Place [a Baptist youth group meeting space] (2002-2004) seen in photograph to right occupied the building; Eudora Arts Center (2005-2007); and [DeeAnn and David Alvarez] Coffee Talk, a restaurant with displayed art for sale (2008-2009); [Sissy Weber] Nancy Jane’s (2010); [Cami SanRomani] Cami’s Cakes (2011-2013); Market on Main (2014- 2017); Zebs Coffee House (2018-).   

 The Ancient Order of United Workers Lodge #112 was built in 1891 and rented for many years by the Mason’s lodge that finally bought it in 1938. Originally with storerooms on the first floor and meetings upstairs, it housed [Susan and Joe Pelzel] The Lodge venue center (2016-); Lighthouse teen center (2015-2016); Grandma’s Magic Kitchen, (2015); Black Cat Café (2010-2014); [Steve Koerner and Danny Strimple] Cutter’s Smokehouse & Pub (2001-2009, moved), Maria’s Restaurant (1999-2001), [Bob and Dody Ortega’s] The Border restaurant (1997-1999), [Chris Deay’s] C. J.s Bar-B-Que (1991-1996), Pancho’s Mexican (1991), Bichelmeyers’ Barbecue (closed in 1991), coffee shop, [Winnie and Lorena Abbot] Abbot’s Café (circa 1948-1950), Martins Café (1944-1948), Gus Ziesenis harness shop and shoe repair (1897-1940), J. W. Caldwell barber shop (1891-1895), Solon Ellis (1895-?). Door on north store front leads to upstairs.  

 In 1898, Louis Moll bought a 25-foot strip of land from Henry Ziesenis “next to the AOUW,” to build a 30-feet deep, brick blacksmith shop for Fred Moll (1898-1910), a blacksmith, who lived “two doors down” with his wife, Anna (Herz). Later that year, Moll added footage for a wagon repair store. Joe Zillner had a blacksmith here, too (1917-1930s. The building with the address at 730 Main Street was moved in 1917 to Elm Street. Fred Ziesenis (tailor) (?-1917) was in the north building and to the south, Charles Schuricht’s shoe repair (1889-1917). Originally, Zillner & Herz blacksmith shop (1870s), this address also was a blacksmith during the 1880s. In April 2005 Matt Montgomery and Tina Lencioni opened. An addition at 730 shares a wall and was built in 1947 for Eudora Cash Hardware (1947-1959). Also located here was Frank’s Automotive Parts (1959-1961), Troup Bookkeeping and Tax Service (circa 1968); Herb Miner Welding and Bargain Center (1960s-early 1990s) that took up all the building space units, Squeezer’s juice bar (1994), Miller & Midyett Realtors (1995-2005), and Main Street Liquor (2005-). 732 L. J. Roller, owner of Eudora Sanitary Bakery, built a small building here for a bakery that also housed Saye Tea Room (circa 1948-1958); Robert Williams’ beer parlor (1935); and Albert Winters’ beer parlor (1932-1934); and Eudora Home Bakery that was moved here to the “Zillner property” and had several owners, including A. Hofaker (1924-1924) and E. Zollikofer, (1924-1924) E.R. Vogel, (1924-?), A. M. McClain (1929-?), Dorman Lady, and Henry Lentz in between 1923-1934. This building had a severe fire in 1929. 734 Oscar (Dobbin) Clark lived in a small structure north of 736 Main Street during the 1960s and 1970s. Also here was Ray Ogden real estate and insurance (1936-1955); Lenahan real estate; and Charlie Richards real estate and law office (1887-1930s). This was in the area Joseph Herz built a house in 1859 and used for his cabinetmaking and undertaking in 1880s. Mention of this building built by Herz was made in 1936 news article. C. Neuman, a physician, conducted Catholic services before 1861 in the Herz home before Holy Family Church was built. Services were also held in the building to the south. Daugherty’s cream business (1920s); Kenneth Cooper’s shoe repair shop; Fred Ziesenis Jr. shoes and repair (1916-1918 and ?-1942); Dr. C.B. Miller’s office (1918-1921); and Eudora Pantatorium drycleaners (George Trefz, circa 1915) also were in this location or have been here or close by. 

Shown on the 1873 Douglas County map here in the lot 9 was the J. Paxlettner building that extended to the east and the J. Herz building hugging the northeast corner of Eighth Street and Main Street in lot 10, but this corner in the past typically housed more than one building. Also here in the southwest corner was Combest Grocery and restaurant (opened in 1923); Schmoe and Hutton bought the former Combest restaurant. This building had a residence and apartments upstairs (until fire in 1932). Combest built an addition to his store on the north side to close the gap between it and the Carter-Smith building in 1929. In this structure or nearby was a barber shop (1903-1920), J.H. Duffy’s dental office (circa 1915), John Burns’ pool hall (1912-?), Dr. Schellack’s office (c .1880-1915); J. M. “Smike” Tarleton lunch counter (1892-1893; Schroeder grocery (1880s), Buck’s saloon with many caves and cellars, and the George and John Andreas store (circa 1860). In 1899,  a crosswalk was made on Eighth Street between the butcher shop and “Schroeder’s Corner.” A wooden fort said to be a defense against Indians was in the alley for decades and built around 1860. H. O. Woodard Ford Agency erected the present 25-foot by 100-foot building in 1917 on the north side of these attached buildings. Now in this building and one to south stands Quilting Bits and Pieces (2001-); Coast to Coast Hardware (1997-2001); C&S Market owned by Bryan Chumbley, Julia Chumbley, John Simpson, and Jeff Simpson (1992-1996); [Gary and Betty Vermillion] Market Basket grocery (1977-1992); Leland “Pete” Lawson and Ray Warmker garage (1960-1975); Oscar and Homer Broers garage (1958-1960); Rothberger Motor auto sales (1936-1958); and H. O. Woodard Ford Agency (1917 -?). On the south side, in 2003, Grand Central (a furniture store) owned by Vicki Evans, opened in December 2002 and closed in 2003 with the address of 736B. Under both 736A and 736B was Blue Collar hand printing shop and Web site design business, which moved in 2005. Reece Nichols occupied the site in 2009. His Hands Clothing Closet, a thrift store, set up at 736b in 2013.

 Pyle Meat Co. Inc., which closed in 2010 as a beef jerky manufactory, was in this location since 1959 and used to have livestock pens to the south for its slaughterhouse. For more than a hundred years, butchers have carried out their trade in stores and even stands. Its occupants include George Bichelmeyer meats (1940-1959), Abner Henley meat market (circa 1938-1940) (building destroyed by fire in mid 1930s), Bert Daugherty, who added a 24’x 60’brick tile store room in 1925, stored poultry in back and grocery in front]; and Meriden Cream Station to south (bought in 1921). Also here were Henry Hagenbuch Meat Market; Willard Eubanks (circa 1909), Hagenbuch meat market (1900-?), Hammert and Hagenbuch meat market (they sold fresh and slated meat and fish in season, also sold Osage shaft coal, Weir coal, and Leavenworth Coal) (1896-1900); Henry Schuette meat market (1888-1896) (Schuette leased his buildings to Hammert and Hagenbuch from 1896 to 1900, and they may have had a meat stand or store a few years earlier); Henry and Jake Hagenbuch (1887-1888) meat market, and R. Heinrich had a building here before 1870 and another Heinrich had one here around 1900. Nelson Hillery and a Mr. Head had a meat shop at Eighth Street and Main Street in 1892; which may have been here or across the street. Bartz and Albright, too, had a meat market in 1897, according to the local newspaper. A stone sidewalk was laid in 1889; in 1900, a brick sidewalk was built on the south side of Eighth Street between Main and Elm Street; that same year boards from the previous sidewalk at that site were sold at auction. To meet codes for shipment outside of Kansas, an addition to the south was built around 2005 for jerky manufacturing. Hair, Nail and Tanning Company opened here in 2010-2014, followed by Cami’s Cakes in 2014; and and G.O. Technologies Underground Utility & Fiber Optic Splicing [Josh Pacheco], and 800 Main Hair Saloon (2022) [Olivia Pacheco].

806 MAIN: BLK 146 LT 4 & S 35 FT LT 3 (E02304 & 2305 COMBINED 1988) Dr. James Still office and home (1800s)

826 MAIN: Family Hair Care Center (circa 1998); Diana’s [Breithaupt] Beauty Shop (2001-); [Cara Austen] Lulu’s Bakery (2015-2016); [Mellissa Dake and Matthew Houser] The Fork restaurant (2016-2016); Torched Goodness (2017-). 

PARK PORTION OF PARK E OF MAINSTREET IN FOLLOWING DESC TR:AREA APPROX 380 FT N & S BOUNDEDON N BY BLKS 134 & 146,& ON S BY BLKS 133 & 147 & APPROX 510FT E & W BOUNDED ON E BY 'E' ST (NOW ELM ST) & ON W BY 'G' ST (NOW MAPLE ST),LESS TR D 170/178,LESS TR D 300/1875 (DIV 1989 E02317A)  840 MAIN or 10 W. 9th: The Public Safety Building, which housed the fire station and police station, was located here. In 1900, George Hagenbuch’s house was torn down at the southeast Ninth Street and Main Street and a new building put up. Henry Ziesenis bought it in 1902 for a poultry-raising business. In 1974, Jayhawk Floor Covering at the site had roofing work done.