Remodels

SCHMIDT- DIETZ BUILDING

Ludwig Schmidt constructed this two-story stone
building in the 1860's for use as a hotel. In the early
1890's it was leased to Louis Dietz, who ran the
business as the Central Hotel and later as the
Dietz Hotel. His home east of the structure
provided space for the hotel kitchen and divine
dining room. Merchant Charles Schwarz bought
the property in 1899 and opened a store here.
The building has also housed a saloon, doctors
and lawyers' offices, and a drugstore