lvin and Felix
Stehling had this building built in 1915 to house their
combination menswear clothing store and dry cleaners
downstairs. The upstairs was designed to be a boarding
house. It is located in the middle of the central shopping
block of the Hauptstrasse (Main Street).
he
menswear/dry cleaners stayed in continuous service to this
German Immigrant community
for 83 years. The boarding house upstairs was closed in
about 1942. The upstairs was then used for storage until
1998 when it was remodeled by Ron and Donna Maddux into
Alte Welt Gasthof. Alte Welt Gasthof is German for Old
World Inn. |