18th Amendment Spirits.

     This is a bar restaurant located in downtown Musskegon, MI.  It opened in 2015.  It operated in the former Savings and Loan Bank. (1887).  It is a one story brick building.

Plaque Sarasota Women’s Club

     The Sarasota Women’s Club is located at 1241 Palm Avenue,  Sarasota.   It started at a meeting of 63 charter members on April 14 , 1913.  Ultimately, the club was moved to a new club house.  Construction costs were.$4,500.  Architect was H.N.Hall.  Contractor was George Lysatt.  Style was Tudor Revival.  Part of the clubhouse was a Sarasota Library until 1940.

     Clubhouse was rededicated in 1952 after being remodeled and redecorated by Naomi Widrig.  In 1977 it became the home of Florida Studio Theater.

     It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1915.

Sarasota Women’s Club

Shoop Building 222 Main Street Racine, WI

     This is a historic building at 215 State Street and 222 Main Street in Racine, Wisconsin.  The building is 6 stories high.  Its exterior walls are of a mixture of cream brick and red sandstone.  The architect was James Gilbert Chandler.  The style is Richardson Romanesque.  It was built in stages over several years. (1893 to 1899)

Shoop Building

     Clarence Shoop was a physician in Racine from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.  He established a patent medicine business in a rented room on Main Street.  His business soon outgrew this site and over several years he built a larger building the Shook Building.

     In 1914 Western Publishing took over the Building. beginning in 1928, a variety of tenants occupied the site

     Currently, the building is occupied by an accounting firm.