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HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION JANUARY 27, 2020 DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION PERMITS HDP-2019-0754 201 E. 3RD STREET D.6 - 1 PROPOSAL Demolish a ca. 1904 warehouse building. ARCHITECTURE One-story, rectangular-plan flat-roofed brick warehouse building with a round-arched entry facing 3rd Street with stone coping at the arch and a non-historic metal-framed glazed entry; fenestration consisting of non-historic metal-framed windows, with a 1:1 configuration along the 3rd Street elevation and fixed-sash fenestration along the west elevation, all of which have stone lintels and sills. The windows along the west elevation appear to be non-historic penetrations. The other modern alteration to the building is the roof-top belvedere with a slanted roof and glass walls. The building retains faded historic commercial murals along the west elevation. RESEARCH The building appears to have been built around 1904 and served as a grocery warehouse and retail grocery store for the majority of its existence. The building does not appear on the 1900 Sanborn map, and the first entries for addresses that correspond to this site appear in the 1905 city directory, when the firm of Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company occupied the building. Both Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr. and Louis Strassburger were successful wholesale grocery merchants in Austin. Heidenheimer, who was the son of a very prominent grocery merchant in Galveston, had worked for Nelson Davis & Company, whose wholesale grocery business was in the 100 block of W. 4th Street (in a city landmark building). Heidenheimer left Nelson Davis in 1888 to establish his own wholesale grocery business, and in 1896, merged with Louis Strassburger’s wholesale produce company. They moved their business from the 100 block of E. 5th Street to this new building around 1904, and remained in business here until around 1932, when the company dissolved. David Lowenberger, Mrs. Heidenheimer’s brother, joined the firm around 1919. Lomis Slaughter, the proprietor of Slaughter Markets, purchased this property around 1932 and operated the Slaughter Public Market here until around World War II, when it became Slaughter Store No. 4. Lomis Slaughter was a character, and wrote a regular column for the Austin American-Statesman in the 1940s and 1950s, entitled “From Soop to Nutz,” which combined his musings on a variety of subjects along with plugs for various grocery brands. Slaughter had several food-related businesses in Austin, including a couple of supermarkets, a packing house (in this building), and a bakery (also in this building for a short period of time). Slaughter also rented out space in this building to the Purity Feed Company and Hatchery, which sold Purina chows, wholesale flour, poultry supplies, and baby chicks. Purity was here for a short time in the late 1930 and early-1940s; Slaughter then expanded his own businesses in this building. Lomis Slaughter, Jr. and George Slaughter were still operating a wholesale and retail grocery business out of this building in the late 1980s. The Slaughters engaged in several remodeling projects on the building during their tenure here. The architectural firm of McGarrah Jessee renovated the building in 2000, installing new windows and doors as well as constructing the rooftop belvedere. STAFF COMMENTS  The building (as 207 Brazos Street) was listed as a Priority 1 for research in the Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey (1984). Staff has evaluated this house for designation as a historic landmark and has determined that the building does not meet the criteria for landmark designation as set forth in City Code: D.6 - 2 a. Architecture. The building is a turn-of-the 20th century brick warehouse with little architectural ornamentation absent the raised brick belt courses and stone accents at the main arch and windows. The fenestration pattern and materials on this building have been altered over the years, so while the building retains its integrity of form, its integrity of materials and design has been compromised. b. Historical association. The building was constructed to be a wholesale grocery warehouse, a function it continued to have through the late 1980s, with two principal businesses: Heidenheimer, Strassburger and Company from the time of the building’s ca. 1904 construction until around 1930, and Slaughter Stores (meat packing plant and bakery) from around 1930 through the late 1980s. c. Archaeology. The building was not evaluated for its potential to yield significant data concerning the human history or prehistory of the region. d. Community value. The building does not possess a unique location, physical characteristic, or significant feature that contributes to the character, image, or cultural identity of the city, the neighborhood, or a particular demographic group. It is not within the recognized “Warehouse District.” e. Landscape feature. The property is not a significant natural or designed landscape with artistic, aesthetic, cultural, or historical value to the city. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Release the permit upon completion of a City of Austin Documentation Package, consisting of photographs of all elevations, a dimensioned sketch plan, and a narrative history, for archiving at the Austin History Center. The applicant plans to incorporate some elements of the building into the new development, including the doorway arch and other aspects of the original building, as part of the amenities of the proposed high-rise building to be constructed on this site. While the building does not qualify as a historic landmark, it is appropriate to commemorate its history through the documentation package and incorporation of significant architectural features into the new construction for the site.  LOCATION MAP D.6 - 3  D.6 - 4 207 Brazos Street/201-05 E. 3rd Street ca. 1904 Detail of the arched entry on the 3rd Street elevation and window details  D.6 - 5 Detail of wall signage on the Brazos Street elevation OCCUPANCY HISTORY 207 Brazos Street/201-05 E. 3rd Street City Directory Research, Austin History Center By City Historic Preservation Office November, 2008 1987 207 Brazos Street Farmer Slaughter’s Market Wholesale and retail groceries George Slaughter, president Lomis Slaughter, Jr., vice-president 207 Brazos Street Slaughter Stores, Inc. Wholesale meats George Slaughter, president Lomis Slaughter, Jr., vice-president Slaughter Packing Company Meats George Slaughter, president Lomis Slaughter, Jr., vice-president 207 Brazos Street Slaughter Stores, Inc. Offices George Slaughter, president 1977 1967 D.6 - 6 1957 1953 1949 1944-45 1941 Lomis Slaughter, Jr., vice-president Slaughter Packing Company Meats George Slaughter, president Lomis Slaughter, Jr., vice-president 207 Brazos Street Slaughter Stores, Inc. Groceries George Slaughter, president Lomis Slaughter, Jr., vice-president Slaughter Packing Company Wholesale meats Lomis Slaughter, president George Slaughter, secretary/treasurer 211 Brazos Street Slaughter Stores, Inc. Groceries George Slaughter, president Lomis Slaughter, Jr., vice-president Slaughter Packing Company Wholesale meats Lomis Slaughter, president George Slaughter, secretary/treasurer Otto H. Milburn, plant manager 201-05 E. 3rd Street Slaughter’s Stores No. 4 Groceries Lomis Slaughter, president Sam L. Slaughter, vice-president George O. Slaughter, secretary/treasurer NOTE: The address is listed as 201-05 E. 3rd Street. 201 E. 3rd Street Slaughter Stores and Public Market No. 4 Wholesale and retail groceries Lomis Slaughter, proprietor 205 E. 3rd Street Purity Feed Company and Hatchery Distributors of Purina chows, wholesale flour, poultry supplies, vaccines, remedies, baby chicks; custom hatching. Marvin H. Gossett, proprietor 205 E. 3rd Street Purity Feed Company and Hatchery Distributors of Purina chows, wholesale flour, poultry supplies, vaccines, remedies, baby chicks; custom hatching.  1937 1935 D.6 - 7 Marvin H. Gossett, proprietor 209 Brazos Street Slaughter’s Public Market Groceries Lomis Slaughter, proprietor 201-03 E. 3rd Street Slaughter’s Public Market Groceries and meats Lomis Slaughter, proprietor 201-03 E. 3rd Street Slaughter’s Public Market Groceries and meats Clifford Matthews, manager 205 E. 3rd Street Purity Feed Company and Hatchery Distributors of Purina chows, wholesale flour, poultry supplies, vaccines, remedies, baby chicks; custom hatching. Marvin H. Gossett, proprietor Public Market Bakery Edward Seeger, proprietor NOTE: The Public Market Bakery also had a store at 210-12 W. 19th Street. 205 E. 3rd Street Purity Feed Company and Hatchery Distributors of Purina chows, wholesale flour, poultry supplies, vaccines, remedies, baby chicks; custom hatching. Marvin H. Gossett, proprietor 201-03 E. 3rd Street Slaughter Public market Groceries and meats L.H. Coker, manager Public Market Bakery Edward Seeger, proprietor Doc’s Quality Products Potato chips R.D. Dudley, proprietor 1932-33 1932-33 (cont) 205 E. 3rd Street 1930-31 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer & Company Wholesale groceries Purity Feed Company and Hatchery Purina chows for horses, cows, hogs, and poultry, feed, hay, and grain. Marvin H. Gossett, manager D.6 - 8 1929 1927 1924 1922 1920 1918 1916 1914 1912-13 Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr., Louis Strassburger, and David Lowenberger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr., Louis Strassburger, and David Lowenberger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr., Louis Strassburger, and David Lowenberger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr., Louis Strassburger, and David Lowenberger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr., Louis Strassburger, and David Lowenberger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr., Louis Strassburger, and David Lowenberger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr and Louis Strassburger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr and Louis Strassburger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr and Louis Strassburger, proprietors 201-05 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries and produce Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr and Louis Strassburger, proprietors  D.6 - 9 205 E. 3rd Street National Packing Company Wholesale meats No proprietor listed. 201 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries and produce Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr and Louis Strassburger, proprietors 201 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries and produce Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr. and Louis Strassburger, proprietors 201 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries and produce Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr. and Louis Strassburger, proprietors 1910-11 1909-10 1906-07 1905 1903-04 NOTE: The building does not appear on the 1900 Sanborn map. There is a notation in the city system for a sewer permit for this address in 1901, but the permit no longer exists. NOTE: The building was extensively remodeled for McGarrah Jessee, LP, an advertising agency, in 2000. 201 E. 3rd Street Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company Wholesale groceries and produce Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr. and Louis Strassburger, proprietors Heidenheimer, Strassburger & Company is listed at 109-13 E. 5th Street. D.6 - 10 Newspaper notice of the merger of the wholesale grocery businesses of Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr. with the wholesale produce business of Louis Strassburger. Austin Daily Statesman, March 2, 1896 D.6 - 11 Advertisement for Cerva – “The World’s Best Beverage” Distributed by Heidenheimer-Strassburger Company Austin American, May 24, 1918  D.6 - 12 Advertisement for Sunset Coffee, distributed by Heidenheimer and Company Austin American, January 3, 1925 D.6 - 13 Advertisement for Roi-Tan Cigars, and the opening of the Texan Cafeteria and Coffee Shop, distributed by Heidenheimer & Company Austin American-Statesman, December 13, 1925  D.6 - 14 Advertisement for Blatz Bohemian Malt Syrup, distributed by Heidenheimer & Company Austin Statesman, December 2, 1927  D.6 - 15 Advertisement for Slaughter’s Public Market Austin American, April 10, 1937  D.6 - 16 Christmas greetings from Slaughter Stores Austin American, December 25, 1938 Christmas greetings from Purity Feed Company and Hatchery Austin American, December 25, 1938  D.6 - 17 Newspaper story advertising Slaughter’s Meat Locker, 207 Brazos Street Austin American, October 5, 1970  D.6 - 18  D.6 - 19 Funeral notice for Louis Strassburger, the partner of Isaac Heidenheimer in a wholesale grocery business in this building. Austin Statesman, April 12, 1934 Funeral notice for Louis Strassburger Austin American, April 13, 1934  D.6 - 20 News of the death of Dave Lowenberger, partner in the Heidenheimer and Strassburger firm Austin Statesman, July 25, 1934  D.6 - 21 Obituary of Isaac Heidenheimer, who with Louis Strassburger, had a wholesale grocery business in this building, and is believed to have been the first occupant of the building. Heidenheimer was born in Germany. Austin American, November 22, 1945  D.6 - 22 Obituary of Marvin H. Gossett, who operated the Purity Feed Company here in the 1930s and 1940s. Austin Statesman, December 13, 1949 Funeral notice for Marvin H. Gossett Austin American, December 15, 1949  D.6 - 23  D.6 - 24 Obituary of Lomis Slaughter, who had a wholesale and retail grocery business, meat packing plant, and sausage factory here from the 1930s through the late 1980s. Austin American, August 30, 1962 D.6 - 25 Building permit to Lomis Slaughter to remodel and repair the building (1950) Building permit to George Slaughter for remodeling the building (1964) Building permit to George Slaughter for remodeling the building in 1965 and again in 1971. D.6 - 26 Building permit for remodeling the building (1974) Building permit to George Slaughter for repairs to the building (1978)  D.6 - 27 The 1900 Sanborn map shows a two-story house on the site of the current building. The 1935 Sanborn map shows the current building with a store in the western third facing Brazos Street, a grocery warehouse in the middle third, and wholesale feed and flour in the eastern third. The map corresponds with city directory listings for Slaughter’s Public Market, Slaughter’s wholesale grocery warehouse, and Purity Feed and Hatchery.  D.6 - 28 The 1961 Sanborn map shows the later usage of the store – the Slaughter Public Market was in the western third of the building (labeled “S”), in the middle third was a grocery warehouse, cold storage, and meat cutting, and in the eastern third was more of the grocery warehouse, additional cold storage space, and a sausage factory. The two-story rooming house next door shown on the 1935 map had been demolished.