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Rastatter's Bakery

Rastatter's Bakery
Rastatter's Bakery

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500 N Fulton Ave, formerly 900-6 Fulton Ave
Evansville, IN

Quick Timeline

c1885 Blacksmith and wagon maker store
1899 Bakery opens
1908 Addition
c1970 Expands into Lewis Bakery headquarters

Location

Northwest corner of Fulton and Virginia
District: Lamasco
Latitude: 37.982376
Longitude: -87.581342
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History


Comments

jacob schweitzer blacksmith/horseshoer and charles seidel wagon maker built >1884 <1886 bakery 1899 900-4 fulton julius rastatter addition (902-6) 1908 harris & shopbell 2 stories 80x60

alvin eades butter krust bread [1922] 900-8 fulton - [1937] addition 1937

bought 1944 by hartford hartford bakery [1962] bought by lewis brothers 1964 but still used name expands c1971 to full block of fulton bought out sunbeam bakery and consolidated operations 1973 expands later into old Fulton School site after rezoning lawsuit now headquarters lewis bakery http://www.lewisbakeries.net/


See also

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

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