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Keller Crescent Printing and Engraving Co.

Bement & Seitz
Bement & Seitz

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a.k.a. Keller Crescent

322-326 Upper Water, 24-8 Riverside
Evansville, IN

Quick Timeline

c1895 Bement & Seitz warehouse is built
1931 Keller Crescent moves in
1961 Building is vacated when Keller Crescent moves out
1962 Building is razed

Location

North corner of Riverside and Locust
District: Downtown
Latitude: 37.968814499683
Longitude: -87.574725151062
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Architecture


History


Comments

This four-story building was built >1896 <1910 for Bement & Seitz Wholesale Grocery. vacant 1929 CD

Around 1930, the company moved to new location at water and ingle in the old Ragon Brothers building. Around the same time Keller Crescent was looking to expand out of their office at 216 Locust [1922]. In 1931 they bought the vacated building and moved in.

In 1960 Keller Crescent broke ground on its new location on E Louisiana in the Gatewood Industrial Park. The company moved out 1961 and the building was razed in 1962. It is now the site of the new Old National Bank building


See also

HistoricEvansville.com: Businesses / Commercial
HistoricEvansville.com: Downtown district

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