Netter--Ullman Building - Springfield, Missouri
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BruceS
N 37° 12.542 W 093° 17.440
15S E 474208 N 4118101
Historic commercial building just off the public square in downtown Springfield, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMD0NE
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 11/02/2011
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"The Netter-Ullman Building [constructed in 1912] is a three-story red brick retail store building influenced in design by the Chicago Commercial style. It is situated in the middle of a business block on Park Central East, formerly East St. Louis Street. The block is immediately to the east of Park Central Square, Springfield's historic public square...
The first occupant of the building was the Heer Dry Goods Company, a well known department store that served the community at another location into the 1990s. The building is most closely associated with the Netter-Ullman women's clothing store that opened c. 1916 and occupied the building into the 1970s. Marx Netter and A. M. Ullman, the original owners of the store, were among a long succession of German merchants who arrived in Springfield between the Civil War and World War I, establishing businesses that helped make the city the leader in wholesale and retail merchandising in Southwest Missouri." - National Register nomination.
The building was restored along with the adjacent Gillioz Theatre and is along with the theater are now the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Center. Three of Ronald Reagan's movies premiered in the theater.