First National Saloon and Old National Road House, Terre Haute, Indiana, circa 1885

Description:	Men and a boy pose near the Poplar Street Exchange, operated by Geo. Stuempfle. A sign advertising Anton Mayer beer [a Terre Haute brewery] is on the corner of the one-story frame building. Sanborn maps show that the doors to the right open to two residences. Painted on the glass globe of the gas light on the lamppost is 7th St. and Poplar. Written in pen on tape affixed to the back is 7th & Poplar. Two fire hydrants are on the sidewalk in front. Stuempfles saloon is listed at 700 Poplar Street (northeast corner of Poplar and South 7th Streetss) in the 1887, 1889, and 1890 city directories. By 1892 the Sanborn Map shows that this frame building was Old & Vac. [vacant]. It was replaced by a brick structure between 1906 and 1911. In the 1960s a McDonalds restaurant was built on this lot.George W. Stuempfle (1845-1928), an Ontario, Canada native of German descent, moved to Terre Haute with several siblings in the 1860s or 1870s. In the 1870s, he operated the First National Saloon and National Road House [see photo ia-0492-0001] and later became a realtor.
Origin:	1885, circa
Source:	http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/06DA28FF-E620-471F-B036-588228321910
Collection:	Indiana Album
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Geography:	1011 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, United States 39.463090,-87.406820
Subjects:	A. C. and J. E. Stringfellow Collection Taverns (Inns) Bars German Americans Terre Haute (Ind.) Vigo County (Ind.)

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