Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant and Willard Coleman Building

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Built 1880 Opened 1880 Architectural style Italianate architecture		NRHP Reference # 83003418 Area 2,000 m² Added to NRHP 7 July 1983

Location 117-123 N. Main St., Janesville, Wisconsin Similar Janesville Country Club, Hedberg Public Library, Rotary Botanical Gardens

The Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant and Willard Coleman Building, in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States—also known as Koutsky & Berg—is a packing house that was built in 1851 in Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

It consists of two original properties, now three buildings, on North Main Street:

117 North Main Street - Willard Coleman, Painter (The Bear Trap Saloon), which was built c.1858-60, was renovated c. 1870-75, and modified 1900-02. It is a two-story red brick building with a cast iron front.

119-123 North Main Street - The Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant, now split between 119 North Main Street - Legal Action of Wisconsin and 121 North Main Street - The Main Waye - Women's Apparel and 123 North Main Street - Midwest Prosthetic-Orthotic Center. This was built c. 1857 and c. 1868. It is a two-story complex of two buildings, with Italianate architecture

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Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant and Willard Coleman Building Wikipedia

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