Bartels Mercantile Co. burns in 1937

the southeast corner of Broadway and Ellis Street in Cape Girardeau. Later that year,

on Sept. 9, the store reopened at 430 Broadway where it continued until going out of

business in 1957.

William F. Bergmann and William G. Bartels organized the Bergmann-Bartels general

merchandise and grocery store in 1902 at 521-525 Broadway in Cape Girardeau. The

building had been constructed two years earlier.

The partnership was dissolved on Aug. 14, 1916. Bartels then opened his own

dry goods store and Bergmann continued operating a grocery store in the

original structure.

The Sinclair gas station is situated at the northeast corner of Broadway and Ellis.

(Photo by G.D. Fronabarger)