HISTORIES: "Business Places of Early Days" of Barron, Barron County, WI

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			Business Places of Early Days

For about twenty years after John Quaderer came to the site of the City of 
Barron, it was chiefly a lumber camp. By 1884, when the Soo railroad 
reached Barron, the following places of business were already in operation: 
Telke Bros. operated a general store near the head of Second Street; George 
Parr had a general store at the corner of Second and LaSalle Streets and 
Smith and Connor also had a general store on the same corner of LaSalle 
and Third Streets. John Post had a hardware store on the corner of Second 
and LaSalle Ave.

The first Soo depot was built on Seventh Street. Near it was a hotel, the 
Barron House. John Schonbeck was the proprietor. Charles S. Taylor was 
publishing the Barron County Shield.

There were three attorneys in Barron in 1884. They were: Charles S. Taylor, 
Jerome F. Coe, and H.J. Sill. Dr. Charles Jenks was practicing medicine.

In 1885, the Barron County Shield stated there were 100 men working on new 
buildings in the village. It seems the location of the new depot on 7th 
Street, caused several business men to move to new sites. Telke Bros. moved 
to the northwest corner of LaSalle and Fourth Streets. They fitted up a 
hall on the second floor. 

Smith and Connor built on the northwest corner of LaSalle and Fourth 
Streets and Thomas W. Parr built on LaSalle Street just west of the Smith 
and Connor building.

John Quaderer and Simon Christeson built a new "Quaderer House" on the 
south east corner of Fifth and LaSalle Streets. John and DeWitt Post built 
a store on the north east corner of Fifth and LaSalle Streets. Ed C. 
Coleman and Nelson Carpenter opened a new store. J.F. and C.D. Coe erected 
an office building on the north east corner of LaSalle and Third Streets. 
The upper floor was fitted up for a Masonic hall.

N. Carpenter built a theater hall on the corner of Third and Division 
Streets in 1886. The Barron Opera Incorporation was organized May, 1889 
and a building was erected on the corner of LaSalle and Fifth Streets. 
This organization was capitalized at $3000. The seating capacity of the 
hall was 400.

--From the Souvenir Historical Album of the Barron Centennial-1960
(used by permission)