Historic buildings, Ann Arbor, Michigan / by Marjorie Reade and Susan Wineberg.

111 South Fourth Avenue
1870 Heinrich Building
1870
There was a saloon at this location from the time the first courthouse was built
in the 1830s until Prohibition days. With Solon Cook's Temperance Hotel
across the street, the saloon was probably a popular refuge. It survived a reform
period in the 1870s when the number of saloons in Ann Arbor was cut from 80
to 32.
John D. Heinrich, proprietor of the Kossuth House Saloon at the corner of
Pontiac (Beakes) and Summit, acquired this property on South Fourth Avenue
in the early 1860s. Before the decade closed he replaced the old saloon with
this commercial Italianate brick structure, which Heinrich and his son-in-law
George Stein operated as a saloon-hotel-residence until his death in 1890.
Number 111 South Fourth continued to be a saloon, changing management
several times, until 1918 and the coming of the prohibition era. Thereafter it
housed a succession of small businesses. The adjoining building at No. 113,
which originally housed a blacksmith shop, was erected in the early 1900s.
The Heinrich Building is in good condition
with its Italianate cornice and most of the
ground floor facade intact. The facade is
unusual, having pilasters at the corners and
between the windows. The upper levels
now make up a condominium and the first
floor awaits an occupant. The original
wooden basement steps, worn away through
the years by beer barrels rolled to cellar
storage, were used as a sculpture on an
exposed interior brick wall by attorney
Peter DeLoof during his tenure as owner
and occupant.
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