LEVY LOTS.
(AKA CHINESE RESTAURANT, STURZNEGGER'S SALOON, KLUBER'S SALOON,
STATE PARK CAFÉ, COLUMBIA HOUSE, JENNY LIND RESTAURANT.)
1850-2008
(c1850)
Originally 3 lots with 3 separate stores. Louis Alexander and William Kote own the middle lot and have general provisions, William Grosse has a tobacco shop in the north section and Joel Levy owns the south lot.
1851 One of the State Street lots has a Chinese Restaurant next to Joel Levy's.(E1:16:4)
1852 December 31 - Chinese Restaurant, Solomon Samson & Co. - Mortgage to W. Bancock. (Block 3A, Lot 44).
1854 July - Alexander and Kote sell to Mrs. Rosa Levy (wife of Joel). After the fire, she rebuilds of wood. Meiss and Lippman open a clothing store.
1857 August - Burned down again. The lots are leased to Isaac Shotwell who puts one wood frame building across the lots.
1857 November - Meiss and Lippman re-open their store in the north corner with clothes, cigars and tobacco.
1858 Gus Sturzenegger opens a saloon after Meiss and Lippman leave.
1859 Clarke and Tucker open a newspaper and book depot in the north section.
1859 June - Clarke continues the news and adds a billiard and reading room while Tucker takes over Sturzenegger's saloon.
1860 Robert H. Towle opens a book store after Clarke leaves.
1861 Henry Decker succeeds Tucker in the saloon.
1862 C. P. Doubleday opens a butcher shop. Towle advertises as a watchmaker and jeweler.
1866 The building is torn down and the site mined.
1870 By this time, H. Kluber has a saloon on the site.
1872 John Decker puts up a small frame building which is occupied by Ludwig Schwarz shoe repair.
1879 Somehow Shine owns the lot and sells to Henry Kluber, the Justice of the Peace, who moves Schwarz out, moves the building to the corner, remodels it and then Ed. Elias moves in with a variety store and telegraph office. Kluber builds a handsome saloon on the site.
1881 H. Kruse acquires the property after Kluber's death.
1883 Elias moves out.
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Kruse Saloon - 1891
1890 Kruse and wife sell to John Voss.
1896 Sells to James N. Gillis.
1897 Sells to George McGowan.
1905 Sells to Louis A. Kahnt who ran a grocery store.
1919 Sells to Jerome Ghiorso after Kahnt's death.
1920 Fire starts in living quarters, spreads to other buildings when strong winds carry sparks all over.
1923 Sells to Charles F. Christian.
1929 Sells to Frank W. and M.H. Fabing.
c1930s Angelo Nadotti purchases the lot, builds the current building and adds Angelo's Hall. George Gardenhire (not sure of spelling) operates the business for a while.
1940s Lila McCorkle in partnership with King ran a furnishing store in the northeast corner of the building.
1948 The state purchases from Pete Nadotti.
1950s State Park Cafe.
1960 After interior renovation by the state, Walter Clever opens a restaurant State Park Cafe.
1962 Son Bill Clever joins him.
1976 Robert Roppolo becomes partner with Clever. The name is changed to Columbia House Restaurant.
1984 Mike Ritter is the concessionaire.
1989-90 Avery Ranch has the restaurant concession.
1990 Nancy and Russell Moreton (with Pat & Martin Flipse) buy the business from Avery and become the concessionaires.
2005 The Moreton's sell to Carl Clark, and Steve & Purvi Knopf, who
called themselves Joe Co Partners, Inc..
2008 April - Forever Resorts takes over the Columbia House and renames it the Jenny Lind Restaurant, on a month to month basis until it goes out to bid.
HISTORY OF THE JENNY LIND NAME IN COLUMBIA.
In the Furguson Building:
1854 William O'Hara opens the Jenny Lind restaurant at the back of the saloon.
1856 William O'Hara runs an ad in the Business Men's Directory.
© Bancroft Library.
The fancy sign attached to large lamp that states; "Jenny Lind Restaurant."
1856 William O'Hara runs an ad in the Weekly Columbian newpaper.
In the Martinez House location:
1857 August 12, Heckendorn sells the adjacent lot on the west to William O'Hara of the Jenny Lind Restaurant. His advertising described the building as 25 ft by 50 ft and 2 stories high. Since closing The Clipper, which had been published from this building in early 1856, he had been renting the rooms for sleeping or offices.
In the Angelo Hall location:
1859 In July, Michael Rosenfield's Jenny Lind restaurant is advertising in the building.
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