110 East Second Street
Lemke Building on June 10, 2009
German watchmaker Ferdinand Lemke came to The Dalles from San Francisco after the gold rush. He opened a saloon called the Yellowstone across First Street from the Umatilla House hotel. Lemke's saloon was damaged by a fire in 1909 and the fire marshal, who owned a competing saloon, condemned the building. Lemke had this Renaissance Revival-style building constructed in 1910 to replace it and reopened his saloon. Later on this building was the Parlor Grocery and A.S. Milne meat cutters and was most recently the Oregon Equipment Company.
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