Beastro & Barley
Beastro & Barley, formerly Touchdown Tavern, Town Club Bar 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. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Wisconsin in 1984. It was built by the Reedsburg Building & Lumber Co.
City Hotel | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Location | 125 Main St., Reedsburg, Wisconsin |
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| 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 |
| Added to NRHP | December 26, 1984 |
The building now houses the Beastro & Barley restaurant and bar downstairs and a single large apartment upstairs. Beastro & Barley is known for its trademarked "Reedsburger", a hamburger prepared with locally sourced Bison. The restaurant also houses 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. Beastro & Barley is one of the venues for Reedsburg's Fermentation Fest.