Touchdown Tavern

Touchdown Tavern, formerly Roper Hotel or Roper's City Hotel, is a restaurant and bar in a historic hotel building in the Second Empire style at 125 East Main Street in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States. The two-storey red brick structure with stone trim and a mansard roof was designed by Edward M. Hackett and constructed in 1886 for $10,000. It includes arched window frames, brick detailing on the facade and a small porch with ornamental metal balustrade on the second floor.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Wisconsin in 1984.[3][4][5] It was built for the Reedsburg Building & Lumber Co.

City Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	125 Main St., Reedsburg, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43°31′57″N 90°0′33″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1886
Built by	Reedsburg Building & Lumber Co.
Architect	Edward M. Hackett
Architectural style	Second Empire
MPS	Reedsburg MRA
NRHP reference No.	84000642[1]
Added to NRHP	December 26, 1984

When it was the Roper Hotel it had 17 guest rooms, a sitting room and parlor on the first floor, a bar, a reading room, and three private rooms with kitchen and dining facilities. It had a livery stable in back.

More recently it was the Town Club and the building now houses the Touchdown Tavern restaurant and bar downstairs and a single large apartment upstairs. The Tavern is known for its trademarked "Reedsburger", a hamburger prepared with locally sourced Bison. The tavern also house the "Agnes Moorehead Lounge", an exhibit of memorabilia from Agnes Moorehead's career in radio, stage, television and movies, including as the witch mother-in-law on the television sitcom Bewitched. The Touchdown Tavern is one of the venues for Reedsburg's Fermentation Fest.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Sauk County, Wisconsin

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. 125 Main Street Historic and Architectural Walking Tour of Reedsburg; A look at some of Reedsburg's finest architecture dating from the mid 1800s Reedsburg Public Library (includes photo)
3. "City Hotel". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved April 30, 2012. The PDF file for this National Register record has not yet been digitized.
4. "City Hotel: Reedsburg, Wisconsin". Archiplanet. December 5, 2006. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
5. "City Hotel: Reedsburg, Wisconsin". Find The Data - Historical Places. Retrieved April 30, 2012.

External links

• "Touchdown Tavern". Retrieved May 1, 2012.