h/o Martha Auerbach.
Birth: in Davenport, Scott county, Iowa, date from Vermont Death Certificate & U S Passport, 1880 & 1910 Federal census has Illinois, others have Iowa.
Within Walter P Tracy's 1925 Kansas City's One Hundred Foremost Men, pages 106 & 107.
Chapel of the Rose Hill Mausoleum honors Henry A Guettel
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; transcribed October, 1997.
From the age of fifteen Mr. Auerbach's closest chum and friend was Henry A. Guettel, who subsequently became his brother-in-law. These two men had joined their capital and established a business at Fairfield, Iowa, which was conducted from 1887 to 1888. Both of them kept their home in Chicago, and the lack of personal supervision was largely the cause of their business failure.
In 1888 these partners left Chicago and came to Topeka. Topeka has really been the scene of Mr. Auerbach's upward rise as a merchant. When the partners arrived in Topeka they had practically no capital and were in fact in debt. They opened a general clothing store largely on borrowed capital. The partners worked turn about in traveling around the country in a wagon, selling goods and getting acquainted with their customers. The other partner in the meantime remained in the store at Topeka. In this way they gradually built up a wide acquaintance and laid the foundation of the extensive trade which now for fully a quarter of a century has been enjoyed by this prominent mercantile house. Successful merchandising had its proper reward, and theirs is now one of the largest and most successful retail establishments in the west. Long since every debt of the partners was paid, and not only have they kept their commercial rating A1 but the good will which goes with their business is worth more than the capital invested in many similar concerns. They have always held to the maxim of truthful advertising and representation of goods, and furthermore have injected a tremendous energy into the workings of their business. It is quite well known around Topeka that each of the partners have frequently worked eighteen out of the twenty-four hours a day. Their firm gives employment to about sixty people, and they have branch stores at Kansas City [1893], St. Joseph [1901] and Emporia [1899]. These partners are now among the largest tax payers in Topeka.
Thusly partnering with brother-in-law, Henry A Auerbach at Topeka, Shawnee county, Kansas in 1888 with what became the multi-store Palace Clothing company. Reportedly starting Kansas City store in 1893 which he operated at 905 Main street as New Place Clothing store and in 1898 residing at 917 east 18th street. Store competed with others such as the nearly thirty year old Woolf Brothers established in 1865, but Henry expanded and changed name to simply The Palace Clothing company, occupying 903-921 Main street in Ridge building by 1922, which they had purchased in 1921, renaming it Palace Building. Henry living at 400 east Armour Boulevard, after residing at 2601 east 12th, the Washington Hotel, and 3312 The Paseo, before moving to their new seven story store building at northwest corner of 12th street & Grand avenue.
Census: 1910, age 46 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with wife & three children at 3312 The Paseo, a merchant.
1924 was year they moved to their newly constructed 12th & Grand avenue, seven story Kansas City store's building, ~ ~ closing its doors after forty successful years, a store which I enjoyed following WW II while living in Kansas City.
Statement of Significance:
The Palace Clothing Company Building is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places according to criteria A and C and is significant in the following areas:
ARCHITECTURE: Designed in 1924 by Kansas City architect Frederic E. Mcllvain, the seven story structure is one of the most expressive examples of Chicago style architecture in Kansas City because its form so clearly expresses the utilitarian and structural function of the building. By emphasizing openness and mass, the design also points to the elegance and flexibility of the "neutral cage". COMMERCE: The Palace Clothing Company, established in 1893 in Kansas City by Henry A. Guettel and Henry A. Auerbach became one of the largest clothing stores of its kind in the West-> and one of the nation's most outstanding stores merchandising men's and boy's clothing. 6 Since 1921, the business grew from a one and a half million dollar volume to more than six million dollars of business before the company closed its doors in 1964, a non-inflationary growth of 242%.
Iowa-born Henry A. Guettel (1866-1921), while working for a prominent wholesale clothier in Chicago, met his future brother-in-law and copartner of the Palace Clothing Company, Henry A. Auerbach. It was in 1888 that Guettel and Auerbach formed a partnership and established the first Palace Clothing Company in Topeka, Kansas.
Continually considering expansion, Guettel and Auerbach explored the business district in Kansas City and in 1893 purchased, coincidentally, the Palace Clothing Store, located at 909 Main. This became their first affiliate business.
In 1921, they purchased the Ridge Property, which housed the Palace Clothing business and changed its name to, the Palace Building. During those twenty-eight years, because continued growth necessitated substantial remodeling and expansion, the Palace Clothing Company had become one of the largest clothing stores in the country, with frontage of 275 feet. Guettel and Auerbach had also opened two more affiliate locations; one in Emporia, Kansas (1899) and another in St. Joseph, Missouri (1901).
Death: in Waterbury, Washington county, Vermont.
Burial, first at Jewish section of historic Elmwood cemetery, 15th & Van Brunt, now 4900 Truman road, with daughter, then both removed to new Rose Hill cemetery in 1923, after 1932 construction of a mausoleum, removed into it where now its chapel honors him.
Father: Simon Guettel b: about 1834 Germany.
Mother: Sophia Hyman b: about 1833 Germany.
Marriage: Martha Auerbach b: 7 FEB 1872 Davenport, Scott county, Iowa.
Married: 7 JAN 1896 Chicago, Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Arthur Abraham Guettel b: 4 OCT 1896 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Stella Helen Guettel b: 6 MAR 1901 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Edward H Guettel b: 15 FEB 1906 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Birth: in Davenport, Scott county, Iowa, date from Vermont Death Certificate & U S Passport, 1880 & 1910 Federal census has Illinois, others have Iowa.
Within Walter P Tracy's 1925 Kansas City's One Hundred Foremost Men, pages 106 & 107.
Chapel of the Rose Hill Mausoleum honors Henry A Guettel
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; transcribed October, 1997.
From the age of fifteen Mr. Auerbach's closest chum and friend was Henry A. Guettel, who subsequently became his brother-in-law. These two men had joined their capital and established a business at Fairfield, Iowa, which was conducted from 1887 to 1888. Both of them kept their home in Chicago, and the lack of personal supervision was largely the cause of their business failure.
In 1888 these partners left Chicago and came to Topeka. Topeka has really been the scene of Mr. Auerbach's upward rise as a merchant. When the partners arrived in Topeka they had practically no capital and were in fact in debt. They opened a general clothing store largely on borrowed capital. The partners worked turn about in traveling around the country in a wagon, selling goods and getting acquainted with their customers. The other partner in the meantime remained in the store at Topeka. In this way they gradually built up a wide acquaintance and laid the foundation of the extensive trade which now for fully a quarter of a century has been enjoyed by this prominent mercantile house. Successful merchandising had its proper reward, and theirs is now one of the largest and most successful retail establishments in the west. Long since every debt of the partners was paid, and not only have they kept their commercial rating A1 but the good will which goes with their business is worth more than the capital invested in many similar concerns. They have always held to the maxim of truthful advertising and representation of goods, and furthermore have injected a tremendous energy into the workings of their business. It is quite well known around Topeka that each of the partners have frequently worked eighteen out of the twenty-four hours a day. Their firm gives employment to about sixty people, and they have branch stores at Kansas City [1893], St. Joseph [1901] and Emporia [1899]. These partners are now among the largest tax payers in Topeka.
Thusly partnering with brother-in-law, Henry A Auerbach at Topeka, Shawnee county, Kansas in 1888 with what became the multi-store Palace Clothing company. Reportedly starting Kansas City store in 1893 which he operated at 905 Main street as New Place Clothing store and in 1898 residing at 917 east 18th street. Store competed with others such as the nearly thirty year old Woolf Brothers established in 1865, but Henry expanded and changed name to simply The Palace Clothing company, occupying 903-921 Main street in Ridge building by 1922, which they had purchased in 1921, renaming it Palace Building. Henry living at 400 east Armour Boulevard, after residing at 2601 east 12th, the Washington Hotel, and 3312 The Paseo, before moving to their new seven story store building at northwest corner of 12th street & Grand avenue.
Census: 1910, age 46 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with wife & three children at 3312 The Paseo, a merchant.
1924 was year they moved to their newly constructed 12th & Grand avenue, seven story Kansas City store's building, ~ ~ closing its doors after forty successful years, a store which I enjoyed following WW II while living in Kansas City.
Statement of Significance:
The Palace Clothing Company Building is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places according to criteria A and C and is significant in the following areas:
ARCHITECTURE: Designed in 1924 by Kansas City architect Frederic E. Mcllvain, the seven story structure is one of the most expressive examples of Chicago style architecture in Kansas City because its form so clearly expresses the utilitarian and structural function of the building. By emphasizing openness and mass, the design also points to the elegance and flexibility of the "neutral cage". COMMERCE: The Palace Clothing Company, established in 1893 in Kansas City by Henry A. Guettel and Henry A. Auerbach became one of the largest clothing stores of its kind in the West-> and one of the nation's most outstanding stores merchandising men's and boy's clothing. 6 Since 1921, the business grew from a one and a half million dollar volume to more than six million dollars of business before the company closed its doors in 1964, a non-inflationary growth of 242%.
Iowa-born Henry A. Guettel (1866-1921), while working for a prominent wholesale clothier in Chicago, met his future brother-in-law and copartner of the Palace Clothing Company, Henry A. Auerbach. It was in 1888 that Guettel and Auerbach formed a partnership and established the first Palace Clothing Company in Topeka, Kansas.
Continually considering expansion, Guettel and Auerbach explored the business district in Kansas City and in 1893 purchased, coincidentally, the Palace Clothing Store, located at 909 Main. This became their first affiliate business.
In 1921, they purchased the Ridge Property, which housed the Palace Clothing business and changed its name to, the Palace Building. During those twenty-eight years, because continued growth necessitated substantial remodeling and expansion, the Palace Clothing Company had become one of the largest clothing stores in the country, with frontage of 275 feet. Guettel and Auerbach had also opened two more affiliate locations; one in Emporia, Kansas (1899) and another in St. Joseph, Missouri (1901).
Death: in Waterbury, Washington county, Vermont.
Burial, first at Jewish section of historic Elmwood cemetery, 15th & Van Brunt, now 4900 Truman road, with daughter, then both removed to new Rose Hill cemetery in 1923, after 1932 construction of a mausoleum, removed into it where now its chapel honors him.
Father: Simon Guettel b: about 1834 Germany.
Mother: Sophia Hyman b: about 1833 Germany.
Marriage: Martha Auerbach b: 7 FEB 1872 Davenport, Scott county, Iowa.
Married: 7 JAN 1896 Chicago, Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Arthur Abraham Guettel b: 4 OCT 1896 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Stella Helen Guettel b: 6 MAR 1901 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Edward H Guettel b: 15 FEB 1906 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Martha Auerbach.
Birth: in Davenport, Scott county, Iowa, date from Vermont Death Certificate & U S Passport, 1880 & 1910 Federal census has Illinois, others have Iowa.
Within Walter P Tracy's 1925 Kansas City's One Hundred Foremost Men, pages 106 & 107.
Chapel of the Rose Hill Mausoleum honors Henry A Guettel
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; transcribed October, 1997.
From the age of fifteen Mr. Auerbach's closest chum and friend was Henry A. Guettel, who subsequently became his brother-in-law. These two men had joined their capital and established a business at Fairfield, Iowa, which was conducted from 1887 to 1888. Both of them kept their home in Chicago, and the lack of personal supervision was largely the cause of their business failure.
In 1888 these partners left Chicago and came to Topeka. Topeka has really been the scene of Mr. Auerbach's upward rise as a merchant. When the partners arrived in Topeka they had practically no capital and were in fact in debt. They opened a general clothing store largely on borrowed capital. The partners worked turn about in traveling around the country in a wagon, selling goods and getting acquainted with their customers. The other partner in the meantime remained in the store at Topeka. In this way they gradually built up a wide acquaintance and laid the foundation of the extensive trade which now for fully a quarter of a century has been enjoyed by this prominent mercantile house. Successful merchandising had its proper reward, and theirs is now one of the largest and most successful retail establishments in the west. Long since every debt of the partners was paid, and not only have they kept their commercial rating A1 but the good will which goes with their business is worth more than the capital invested in many similar concerns. They have always held to the maxim of truthful advertising and representation of goods, and furthermore have injected a tremendous energy into the workings of their business. It is quite well known around Topeka that each of the partners have frequently worked eighteen out of the twenty-four hours a day. Their firm gives employment to about sixty people, and they have branch stores at Kansas City [1893], St. Joseph [1901] and Emporia [1899]. These partners are now among the largest tax payers in Topeka.
Thusly partnering with brother-in-law, Henry A Auerbach at Topeka, Shawnee county, Kansas in 1888 with what became the multi-store Palace Clothing company. Reportedly starting Kansas City store in 1893 which he operated at 905 Main street as New Place Clothing store and in 1898 residing at 917 east 18th street. Store competed with others such as the nearly thirty year old Woolf Brothers established in 1865, but Henry expanded and changed name to simply The Palace Clothing company, occupying 903-921 Main street in Ridge building by 1922, which they had purchased in 1921, renaming it Palace Building. Henry living at 400 east Armour Boulevard, after residing at 2601 east 12th, the Washington Hotel, and 3312 The Paseo, before moving to their new seven story store building at northwest corner of 12th street & Grand avenue.
Census: 1910, age 46 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with wife & three children at 3312 The Paseo, a merchant.
1924 was year they moved to their newly constructed 12th & Grand avenue, seven story Kansas City store's building, ~ ~ closing its doors after forty successful years, a store which I enjoyed following WW II while living in Kansas City.
Statement of Significance:
The Palace Clothing Company Building is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places according to criteria A and C and is significant in the following areas:
ARCHITECTURE: Designed in 1924 by Kansas City architect Frederic E. Mcllvain, the seven story structure is one of the most expressive examples of Chicago style architecture in Kansas City because its form so clearly expresses the utilitarian and structural function of the building. By emphasizing openness and mass, the design also points to the elegance and flexibility of the "neutral cage". COMMERCE: The Palace Clothing Company, established in 1893 in Kansas City by Henry A. Guettel and Henry A. Auerbach became one of the largest clothing stores of its kind in the West-> and one of the nation's most outstanding stores merchandising men's and boy's clothing. 6 Since 1921, the business grew from a one and a half million dollar volume to more than six million dollars of business before the company closed its doors in 1964, a non-inflationary growth of 242%.
Iowa-born Henry A. Guettel (1866-1921), while working for a prominent wholesale clothier in Chicago, met his future brother-in-law and copartner of the Palace Clothing Company, Henry A. Auerbach. It was in 1888 that Guettel and Auerbach formed a partnership and established the first Palace Clothing Company in Topeka, Kansas.
Continually considering expansion, Guettel and Auerbach explored the business district in Kansas City and in 1893 purchased, coincidentally, the Palace Clothing Store, located at 909 Main. This became their first affiliate business.
In 1921, they purchased the Ridge Property, which housed the Palace Clothing business and changed its name to, the Palace Building. During those twenty-eight years, because continued growth necessitated substantial remodeling and expansion, the Palace Clothing Company had become one of the largest clothing stores in the country, with frontage of 275 feet. Guettel and Auerbach had also opened two more affiliate locations; one in Emporia, Kansas (1899) and another in St. Joseph, Missouri (1901).
Death: in Waterbury, Washington county, Vermont.
Burial, first at Jewish section of historic Elmwood cemetery, 15th & Van Brunt, now 4900 Truman road, with daughter, then both removed to new Rose Hill cemetery in 1923, after 1932 construction of a mausoleum, removed into it where now its chapel honors him.
Father: Simon Guettel b: about 1834 Germany.
Mother: Sophia Hyman b: about 1833 Germany.
Marriage: Martha Auerbach b: 7 FEB 1872 Davenport, Scott county, Iowa.
Married: 7 JAN 1896 Chicago, Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Arthur Abraham Guettel b: 4 OCT 1896 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Stella Helen Guettel b: 6 MAR 1901 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Edward H Guettel b: 15 FEB 1906 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Birth: in Davenport, Scott county, Iowa, date from Vermont Death Certificate & U S Passport, 1880 & 1910 Federal census has Illinois, others have Iowa.
Within Walter P Tracy's 1925 Kansas City's One Hundred Foremost Men, pages 106 & 107.
Chapel of the Rose Hill Mausoleum honors Henry A Guettel
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; transcribed October, 1997.
From the age of fifteen Mr. Auerbach's closest chum and friend was Henry A. Guettel, who subsequently became his brother-in-law. These two men had joined their capital and established a business at Fairfield, Iowa, which was conducted from 1887 to 1888. Both of them kept their home in Chicago, and the lack of personal supervision was largely the cause of their business failure.
In 1888 these partners left Chicago and came to Topeka. Topeka has really been the scene of Mr. Auerbach's upward rise as a merchant. When the partners arrived in Topeka they had practically no capital and were in fact in debt. They opened a general clothing store largely on borrowed capital. The partners worked turn about in traveling around the country in a wagon, selling goods and getting acquainted with their customers. The other partner in the meantime remained in the store at Topeka. In this way they gradually built up a wide acquaintance and laid the foundation of the extensive trade which now for fully a quarter of a century has been enjoyed by this prominent mercantile house. Successful merchandising had its proper reward, and theirs is now one of the largest and most successful retail establishments in the west. Long since every debt of the partners was paid, and not only have they kept their commercial rating A1 but the good will which goes with their business is worth more than the capital invested in many similar concerns. They have always held to the maxim of truthful advertising and representation of goods, and furthermore have injected a tremendous energy into the workings of their business. It is quite well known around Topeka that each of the partners have frequently worked eighteen out of the twenty-four hours a day. Their firm gives employment to about sixty people, and they have branch stores at Kansas City [1893], St. Joseph [1901] and Emporia [1899]. These partners are now among the largest tax payers in Topeka.
Thusly partnering with brother-in-law, Henry A Auerbach at Topeka, Shawnee county, Kansas in 1888 with what became the multi-store Palace Clothing company. Reportedly starting Kansas City store in 1893 which he operated at 905 Main street as New Place Clothing store and in 1898 residing at 917 east 18th street. Store competed with others such as the nearly thirty year old Woolf Brothers established in 1865, but Henry expanded and changed name to simply The Palace Clothing company, occupying 903-921 Main street in Ridge building by 1922, which they had purchased in 1921, renaming it Palace Building. Henry living at 400 east Armour Boulevard, after residing at 2601 east 12th, the Washington Hotel, and 3312 The Paseo, before moving to their new seven story store building at northwest corner of 12th street & Grand avenue.
Census: 1910, age 46 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with wife & three children at 3312 The Paseo, a merchant.
1924 was year they moved to their newly constructed 12th & Grand avenue, seven story Kansas City store's building, ~ ~ closing its doors after forty successful years, a store which I enjoyed following WW II while living in Kansas City.
Statement of Significance:
The Palace Clothing Company Building is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places according to criteria A and C and is significant in the following areas:
ARCHITECTURE: Designed in 1924 by Kansas City architect Frederic E. Mcllvain, the seven story structure is one of the most expressive examples of Chicago style architecture in Kansas City because its form so clearly expresses the utilitarian and structural function of the building. By emphasizing openness and mass, the design also points to the elegance and flexibility of the "neutral cage". COMMERCE: The Palace Clothing Company, established in 1893 in Kansas City by Henry A. Guettel and Henry A. Auerbach became one of the largest clothing stores of its kind in the West-> and one of the nation's most outstanding stores merchandising men's and boy's clothing. 6 Since 1921, the business grew from a one and a half million dollar volume to more than six million dollars of business before the company closed its doors in 1964, a non-inflationary growth of 242%.
Iowa-born Henry A. Guettel (1866-1921), while working for a prominent wholesale clothier in Chicago, met his future brother-in-law and copartner of the Palace Clothing Company, Henry A. Auerbach. It was in 1888 that Guettel and Auerbach formed a partnership and established the first Palace Clothing Company in Topeka, Kansas.
Continually considering expansion, Guettel and Auerbach explored the business district in Kansas City and in 1893 purchased, coincidentally, the Palace Clothing Store, located at 909 Main. This became their first affiliate business.
In 1921, they purchased the Ridge Property, which housed the Palace Clothing business and changed its name to, the Palace Building. During those twenty-eight years, because continued growth necessitated substantial remodeling and expansion, the Palace Clothing Company had become one of the largest clothing stores in the country, with frontage of 275 feet. Guettel and Auerbach had also opened two more affiliate locations; one in Emporia, Kansas (1899) and another in St. Joseph, Missouri (1901).
Death: in Waterbury, Washington county, Vermont.
Burial, first at Jewish section of historic Elmwood cemetery, 15th & Van Brunt, now 4900 Truman road, with daughter, then both removed to new Rose Hill cemetery in 1923, after 1932 construction of a mausoleum, removed into it where now its chapel honors him.
Father: Simon Guettel b: about 1834 Germany.
Mother: Sophia Hyman b: about 1833 Germany.
Marriage: Martha Auerbach b: 7 FEB 1872 Davenport, Scott county, Iowa.
Married: 7 JAN 1896 Chicago, Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Arthur Abraham Guettel b: 4 OCT 1896 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Stella Helen Guettel b: 6 MAR 1901 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Edward H Guettel b: 15 FEB 1906 Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
