Bohm Building

100 N. Main St., Edwardsville, IL
Phone:

East < GO > West

When the 1911 Wm. Bohm building was new it was primarily retail spaces on the ground floor, office space on the 2nd floor and a ballroom and meeting spaces on the 3rd floor. In the late 1940s Bohm's son Clarence opened a dance studio on the 2nd floor and operated it into the late 1960s.

For many years a drugstore with a lunch counter occupied the corner spot on the first floor. Various Intercity bus lines, including Greyhound would stop at the curb to pick up or drop off passengers.

In 2000 Andrew & Gloria Schlueter bought building and began renovating it, in part as a place for the office of their statue business. One of their statutes stands in a walkway on the east side of the building.

The name of the building is engraved over the main doorway.

Statute standing in the walkway on the east side of the building.

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Vintage Advertising Highlights

BOHM BUILDING
EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS
Edward A. Kane Architect. - Sally Ann Bakery - Blumes American Red Cross - - Clarences Dance Studio - Edwardsville Shoe Service - Vestal and Straub Barber Shop - Evelyns Beauty Salon - Madison Co. Journal - Lewis T. V. - Wilmer Giese - University Dental Lab - Madison County Association for Mental Health - Neighborhood Periodical Club.

NOTE: Including Clarences Dance Studio in this list of tenants indicates the postcard was published sometime after 1948, which is when the dance studio opened.
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Photo(s): 2016, 2018