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Kegler Gonner Store and Post Office

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Peter and John Weis

Opened
  
1874

Added to NRHP
  
27 June 1985

Built
  
1874

NRHP Reference #
  
85001375

Architectural style
  
Vernacular architecture

Kegler Gonner Store and Post Office

Location
  
100 E. MainSpringbrook, Iowa

Similar
  
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The Kegler-Gonner Store and Post Office, also known simply as Gonner's Store, is a historic commercial building located in Springbrook, Iowa, United States. Christian Kegler had the western portion of this building constructed for his general store about 1874. The post office had relocated here two years previous with Kegler as the postmaster. Three additions were built on to the original structure. The building was in its final form by 1933. John Gonner acquired a part interest in the store in 1904, and operated it outright by 1908. It was still known as Gonner's Store at least into the mid-1980s. The space is now occupied by a restaurant. The second floor houses apartments. At one time the east half of the second floor had been a boarding house.

The building is composed of coursed ashlar limestone, with the stones themselves being of various sizes. The tin cornice that caps the main facade features finials, brackets, dentils, and modillion trims. A balcony and a tin awning runs the entire front of the building. The western portion of the building is capped by a hip roof, while the eastern section is capped with a gable roof. Local stonemasons Peter and John Weis were believed to have constructed the original structure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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Kegler Gonner Store and Post Office Wikipedia


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