Commerce Street Brewery Hotel opened as Brewery Creek Inn in 1998. The owners at the time had fallen in love with Mineral Point and our historic building and painstakingly converted its hollow shell into the brewpub & inn concept that continues today. After 20 years, that couple retired and Mike and his dog Octavia became the business's new caretakers (and mascot, respectively).
But our history dates back much further than that...
Our building was constructed in 1854, as a warehouse and dry goods store. Merchant George Cobb (who was, incidentally, Vincent Price's great grandfather) arrived from a mining town in upstate New York to settle in Mineral Point. Newspaper advertisements from the day would periodically announce when a "one-horse cart-load has just arrived" to Cobb's shop, which had carried everything from coffee, sugar, molasses, and flour, to blasting powder and mining tools.
As the gold rush in California took hold, many of Mineral Point's miners headed west. Within a decade or so, our building took on a new purpose as an agricultural implement store and livestock exchange. Over the next 150-ish years, the building changed hands a few times. It served as a barn, a veterinary clinic, and factory in which newspapers were recycled into residential insulation material.
