Beer was brewed in square 1042 (13th/14th/D/E Streets, SE) from 1850 to 1917. 1331 D St. SE is a Colonial Revival building constructed in 1899 as an apartment building. We understand that at one time this was where the brewmaster lived. We don’t know for certain, but it would have been a convenient location and we do know that buildings related to the brewery were built as late as 1912 (when the ice storage building was constructed in the alley). Whoever lived here enjoyed an especially handsome and highly ornamented building, with its Roman brick facade, decorative cornice with patterned frieze and fluted pilaster at the door surround. If it was the brewmaster’s home, this would be the only remaining building from that most exciting era. Square 1042 is now being redeveloped as Beuchert’s Park.

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For more information on this historic sites, go to the restoration society’s web page for the tour at http://chrs.org/historic-sites-tour-2020/

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Commemorating St. Cyprian’s Catholic Church, posted earlier: