# 27 Eppinger's

Services and history

#27 - Eppinger’s General Store & Hardware - 201 North First Street (364)

Eppinger, Fox & Company (Otto Fox)

Construction in 1883 of brick, the building housed a general mercantile owned by Eppinger and company, then Oscar Schulze, Stuart Grady, and Denton Barker, who installed a grocery store and meat market. Next door is a building that began as a saloon, unlike most buildings, which have had various types of businesses over the years. At one time housing Barker’s Store. Next door is a building that has always housed a saloon in one form or another, unlike most buildings which have held various types of businesses over the years. Eppinger’s, later Schulze’s Department Store, sold plows, harrows, canned goods, meat, hardware, boots, overalls, saddles, and yard goods.

Eppinger and Company, expects to build a brick building between the bank and the railroad depot.

One of the reasons is that Eppinger’s’ store did not burn in 1883. was since they had just completed their new building on the corner of B and First Streets and built this time of brick. Diagonally across the street at Einstein’s, later Blum & Sons, was another brick building. Down at the corner of A and First Streets, the only brick building was the Palace Hotel on the northeast corner.

April 1892 along came an earthquake, and it was almost as disastrous as the fire. But not to be daunted, our fair merchants rebuilt, rearranged, and reinforced and opened for business once more. The Palace Hotel, for instance, may be the oldest brick building in town. In 1875, one William Johnson bought Blum & Son’s brick store in Silveyville and used the bricks to construct a new building in Dixon. “It is understood that William Johnson will erect a two-story brick building on the Southeast corner of 1st and A Street, opposite Ferguson & Company in early Spring.” February 1875, Dixon Tribune. (The newspaper was not always accurate with the location descriptions; it was the northeast corner) By 1876 reference is made to the Johnson brick building as the site of the Palace Saloon with adjoining Place Hotel and restaurant.

Eppinger and Company closed the doors in 1903 for good.

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