116 No. 10th Street
Also formerly known as Main Street
Address: 116 North 10th Street
Legal Description: North 72’ of Lot 88
Building: Brown Block North, Annex #2
1872 Vacant lot
1882 T. J. (Jeff) Fleming ran a livery stable on the south ½ of this lot.
1885 Clint Spear bought the lot and livery stable.
1890 The Shumway Livery Barn was located here.
1891 Jennie Brown purchased the Shumway Livery Barn.
1900 Jennie Brown tore down the livery barn and built a large store building on the south ½ of the lot. She also built a single building divided into three separate rooms just south of the alley.
Note: A 24’ wide addition to the west side of these store fronts was done between 1902 and 1909 and removed between 1933 and 1943. It was used for storage.
1901 The Geneva Steam Laundry was here with A. C. Phelps as manager, moving to 120 No. 10th the following year.
1902 The Sanborn map showed a meat market here.
1902 J. C. Schmidt’s meat market was located here. He was formerly a meat cutter in the Ogg meat market.
1902 Charley Hyde moved his newsstand here from the post office space.
1902 Novak & Co. moved their grocery store from the Corner Grocery building into this location.
1904 In June, Novak and Co. sold their grocery stock to James Zaklasnik of Dwight, who formed a partnership with Barnas & Prokop. They consolidated their hardware stock with the grocery. Their harness and upholstering business remained in the old location with Mike Prokop under Geneva State Bank. They named their new store The Leader.
1904 In July Hyde and Elmer Waite moved their newsstand to 130 No. 9th.
1904 In August Barnas & Prokop purchased the interest of their partner James Zaklasnick. They planned to continue the business at the old stand, third door from the fire bell.
1904 Barnas & Prokop moved into their own building, the east half of the Union Block.
1908 After a fire burned their butcher shop at 960 Court Street, Hyatt & Vietz moved into this location to continue business.
1909 In February, W. H. Lake opened an automobile garage here, but moved to 1040 G after only one week. He advertised Buicks.
1909 The Sanborn maps showed a harness shop here.
1909 In February, Joseph Ertel sold harnesses, saddles, robes, blankets and whips. T. A. Heath also did shoe repair here.
1909 In May, Joe Ertel and Tom Heath dissolved their partnership and T. A. Heath moved his shoe repair business back to his old shop on North 10th near the fire bell.
1909 In November, Joe Ertel moved his harness shop to 984 G Street--the west side of the Geiselman building.
1909 William Carson moved his milk and cream station from its old place in the Ice Cream Mfg. Co. Building to the place vacated by Joseph Ertel.
1911 The Fairmont Station under the management of Will Carson claimed first place from among all the stations in the state in the amount of product and cream shipped to the Fairmont company.
1912 In April, Chris Peterson took a position at Carson's produce house.
1912 In June, W. H. Carson was operating a cream station in Lawrence and Chris Peterson ran the station in Geneva.
1912 In August, Chris Peterson advertised rugs at Carson's Produce House
1912 In October, Chris Peterson purchased the cream station and produce business of W. H. Carson. (In November, Chris went to his homeland of Denmark and returned with a wife and two of his friends.)
1913 In February, Chris Peterson sold his carpet weaving loom and business to H. A. Jacobsen who lived in the west part of town.
1913 In July, Chris Peterson sold his produce station to Will H. Carson.
1913 In August, Chris Peterson moved to Edgar where he ran a cream station.
1914 In April, Chris Peterson temporarily ran cream stations in Cordova and Beaver Crossing before purchasing the Carson cream station in Geneva.
1916 In August, Dr. H. L. Smith had the buildings occupied by the Boston Store, Chris Peterson, Suitorium and Equity painted.
1917 In April, Chris Peterson was listed as an agent for the Fairmont Creamery. He stated that for the year 1916, farmers were paid $21,097.17 for poultry and $13,265.33 for eggs.
1918 In November, Chris Peterson was listed as running a cream and produce station for the Fairmont Creamery.
1920 In June, Ralph Myers purchased the Fairmont Cream station from Chris Peterson. Myer's produce was at Peterson’s old stand.
1921 In July, Ralph Myers was the buyer for Fairmont Creamery.
1922 The Sanborn maps showed a cream station here.
1922 In February, Hrubesky Funeral Home was moved here (the south room of the three room building) from its former location in the middle room.
1931 Hrubesky Funeral Home moved to 115 So. 10th.
1931 In November, the Smith Furniture Exchange was here.
1932 Ralph Lohr moved his restaurant two doors south from 124 No. 10th and changed the name from the Mayfair Café to the O. K. Café.
1940 The grocery located in 120 No. 10th was moved here to allow for expansion of the cold storage operation.
1941 Fred N. Placek took over the cream, poultry and egg station in the building formerly occupied by the Charles Ashton station. The building was renovated for the new station. Charles Ashton retired from business because of advancing years, he was 81 years old and had been in business for 29 years in Geneva.
1943 The Sanborn maps showed a store here.
1945 Newman Shoe Service moved here from 128 No.10th.
1952 James & Loretta Willy purchased the Geneva Locker System from Jesse Mason and expanded into this location.
1968 Marlin Domeier purchased the Geneva Locker from James & Loretta Willy.
1987 Larry and Pat Hilty purchased the building for storage and office space.
2012 Hilty’s closed. The building was unoccupied.
This was ongoing as of the last posting.