The corner was a Medical Office. of Dr. William G. Burke. Built in 1912 by John Mohhneburg,who owned the Gold Beating business just to the East, for Dr.James Shea to use as a medical office. It was torn down in 1966 to build the Goldman Bros.Store. The new store tightly abutted the William Braun farmhouse to the right. The Amaco gas station is on the corner of Old Country Rd.. Botto Bros old store is visible in the distance. The Braun farmhouse was built between 1873 and 1885 .The house has the same general shape as Julius Augustin’s, before the early 1900’s alterations. The center roof dormer and the across porch. The central roof dormer was not shown on the pic. of the Braun house sold by Ernst Liebke in 1885. In 1934 the house lot was 150 x100 feet.as described in Mrs. Braun’s will. There were 2 more buildings where the Amaco gas station is. One was owned by William Braun, after his dissolved butcher business with Henry C Stolz, in 1896, he built a new butcher store there, the brick ice house was to supply ice for the new store, and his slaughter house in his large barn. The Sanborn fire nap shows the ice house to be 5 feet above ground.. In 1906 William Braun bought a lot to the South of the old former Bank of Hicksville building. He then added a second story to the old shop next to his house and rented it out.. The corner house, on Old Country Rd., was built by Adam Kappstatter, He ground cutlery and sharpened tools as a living. At one time he had a shop in and sharpened the wood working tools of Voight’s mill on Nicholai St. He died in 1907 at age 48. After saying he did not feel well he sat down in his Morris chair and died of a heart attack. He had built the house in 1906 . after he had sold his farm.. His machine shop was behind the house.
