SHEBOYGAN – Training tailored to business needs has always been needed in the Sheboygan community.
In 1887, the newly formed State Business College held its first classes on the third floor of the Segel Building on the southwest corner of North 8th Avenue and New York Avenue in Sheboygan.
The university was to offer classes in bookkeeping, spelling, penmanship, arithmetic, shorthand, typewriting, farm accounting, and more.
Sheboygan’s accountant, Melvin C. Patten, initially taught classes in private homes. As the demand for his services grew, it eventually developed into the State College of Business (Sheboygan He also known as the State College of Business).
In its early days, the college had a relatively nomadic existence until it moved from building to building, spending much of its time on North 8th Avenue and New York Avenue.
The college has had a string of owners, including businessman Emile Moose, who would later become Mayor of Sheboygan. He purchased his college in 1947.
When Muuss owned the university, he overhauled everything. He upgraded the building and curriculum and filed new articles of association.
In an impassioned news release, Moose said, “The school is being renovated, refurbished and refurbished as soon as possible.” New equipment was ordered and was said to be the most complete in the state.
In 1948 Moose moved the college to the third floor at 701 North 8th Street, according to information from Beth Dippel of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center. He founded his Office Service Bureau, Inc. This catered to professional men who had offices on the second floor and printed items on ditto or mimeograph presses. The Secretariat will answer the phone on the extension installed at the OSB office. This setup combines classroom instruction with a real-time office experience for students.
By early 1954, Moose had sold Sheboygan College of Business to Mission House College (now Lakeland College) and was dean of what would become the School of Management. In 1955 Muss assumed additional duties as Director of Admissions.
Initially, business class continued to be served on Sheboygan. By 1956, however, all business had moved to the campus of Mission House College.
In 1959, Moose resigned and returned to the office service bureau’s printing, mailing and response services business.
The Throwback building of the week not only once housed its college, but was known for many years as the Woolworths building, later home to Claes Hartel’s menswear store and later home to Johnson Bank. .
Today, without Johnson Bank, that part of the building awaits a new role and purpose for the 21st century.
Click here for a larger image.
Related – Hider Chapel | Back Thursday
Related – North 8th Street in Sheboygan | Back Thursday
Related – 8th Avenue had gas lights and electric trolley cars | Memories of Thursday
Comments
Post a Comment