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Daniel Kusel Sr. Home
216 N Church (Church and Cady)
1858
"In 1858 Joseph Bursinger built an extra
large aging cellar in the hill where Louis Kusel lives today. Many hundreds of barrels of beer were placed
in these cellars to lager or age." [ chapter
on brewery tunnels ]
The original abstract for the Kusel property
shows Bursinger purchased the house on
The agreement said Bursinger would be allowed
to build the east-west cellar as a passage to and from his other cellar (the
north-south section). So apparently the
first section constructed was the north-south and the east-west section came
later.
Other requirements were that Bursinger had to
construct a "flate" [slate?] entrance door on the east end of the
sidewalk, that the tunnel must be built in a "good and substantial
manner" and in such a manner that sidewalk could later be constructed
according to grade and that the entrance be at grade level.
The abstract makes for interesting reading. The first entry is when the United States of
America sold the land to James Rogan on Jan. 29, 1839, for a buck and a quarter
an acre.
1895
12 18 Miss Jennie Kusel gave a dancing party WR
2008
07 07 Bottle rocket
likely cause of fire, 216 N Church [ Fire Dept
chapter ]. WDT
Cross references:
Doug Behling owner in 1991
