Cherokee-Lemp Historic District

The Lemp family built this "Wagon House" in 1895 to house its fleet of delivery wagons and herd of horses that carried Lemp brews to far-flung retailers. A corral for the Percherons — the draft horses used by the Lemp Brewery — covered the east side of the block. These impressive, dappled gray, French-bred horses were a symbol of the brewery.

In 1912, an extension was added to the east end of the Wagon House, covering the corral site. The Wagon House, like the rest of the brewery complex, is a masterpiece of brick construction. The entrance to the Grand Hall of the Wagon House offers a good vantage point to view the great brewery complex on the opposite side of Cherokee Street.

The rounded walls of its six-story tall brick grain elevators, the brick arches over massive doorways and windows, the cornices created by corbelling the brick out from the flat surface of the walls — required temendous skill. These feats of brick work made what could have been a mundane factory for beer into a work of building art.

The Pointer Family restored the third floor of the Wagon House and operates it as a banquet facility.

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