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Commercial Historic District nomination (Garner, 2012)
Henry B. Worster — “was eight when his family moved to Liberty Township in 1854” (so b. c. 1846); contractor/builder of North Liberty homes and businesses in the 1870s–1880s; built the Worster Building, 100 N. Main St., in 1892 for a general store; by the early 1900s the business was “H. B. Worster and Son” (Nomination, narrative at the 100 N. Main entry). [LINE]
L. A. Finch — constructed the Finch Block c. 1900 (141–145 N. Main); by 1909 its north storefront held the Louis G. Finch & Company furniture store; L. W. Pommert purchased the south half by 1920 (Nomination). Whether “L. A. Finch” and “Louis G. Finch” are the same man is not stated in the Nomination passages read and is not asserted here. No identity with Chapman’s Martin Finch is asserted either (different forenames in the record). [LINE]
Daniel Hoffman — settled in Liberty Township in 1864; built the Hoffman Block c. 1885 for his drugstore/grocery; sons William and John Hoffman (“Hoffman Brothers”) ran it into 1940; still called the Hoffman Building in 1960 (Nomination, 124–128 N. Main entry; the Snyder/Hoffman building history at 121–123 N. Main). [LINE] — Trap warning: the Comstock House hotel land (125 N. Main) was purchased by a William Hoffman in 1875 and sold in 1877 (Nomination) — the Nomination as read does not equate him with Daniel Hoffman’s son William (who would have been a child in 1875 on the nomination’s own chronology); the two William Hoffmans are not merged.
L. W. Pommert — built the L. W. Pommert Building, 112 N. Main St., in 1920 (name-block “19 L. W. POMMERT 20”); “served as town board president in 1912” (Nomination) — the register’s earliest reached town-board-president fact, at pointer here; purchased the south half of the Finch Block by 1920; by 1940 the 112 N. Main store operated as “L. W. Pommert & Mapes” (Nomination). [LINE; the 1912 presidency is the carrying fact]
Zell O’Connor — electrician; opened the O’Connor Electric Shop, 109 N. Main St., in the 1930s, operating into the 1960s (Nomination). [LINE]
Ted Stepanek — purchased the former State Bank building, 125 N. Main, and relocated his barber shop from the Hoffman Building there in September 1960, as Ted’s Barber Shop (Nomination). [LINE] — Living-person discipline: Stepanek is registered at exactly the strength the public Nomination record itself prints (a 1960 business fact), and not one word further; no vital facts were dug for him or for any other 20th-century townsman.
Aldrich Construction Company — North Liberty firm; built the Community State Bank building April–August 1960 (Nomination). A firm, not a person; registered here only so People does not drop the name — the business leg carries it. [LINE — firm]