Gotchalk Bakery (also Quarry Site)

503 & 505 Bear Creek Avenue
#35 on walking tour

Built ca. 1885. The Site of Morrison Stone, Lime, and Town Co. The kiln (ca. 1878) made the mortar used in many of the houses that still stand today. The Morrison Liquor Store has used this building for many years but is gone as of 2025.

Jonas Henry Schrock was believed to have had a saloon in this building. The Gotchalks started their bakery downstairs and lived in the one-and-a-half story rear apartment in 1889. Later this building was used as the Morrison Post Office. Long-time business tenant Morrison Liquors moved out in 2024. As of the 2025 photo, this historic building is vacant and for sale.

This site, before the current structure was built, was the location of one of Morrison’s lime kilns, which processed limestone from the Glennon Formation, still visible today directly behind the store.

This area of town was the original location of the Morrison Stone, Lime, and Townsite quarry and kiln. The historic photo above was taken just two months after the devastating flood of July 24, 1896.

In this 2025 photo, you can see the hill, same as the hill behind the old lime kiln in the 1896 photo above?