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Andy Ricketts Meat Market Stockgrowers Bank
F. G.
102 N. Deadwood 34 E. Main

Andy’s Meat Market at
102 N. Deadwood was
built in 1907 by Andy
Ricketts. Ricketts had
purchased equipment
from George
Mathieson’s meat
market (Exchange
Meat Market on Main
Avenue) in 1907 for his
new business on the
corner of Deadwood
and Main.

In 1919, Ricketts built a second Build in 1903, the Stockgrowers Bank is the only example of
building at this location, also Romanesque Revival architecture in Fort Pierre. The building
called Andy’s Meat Market, and represents an interesting and well-executed adaptation of the style
operated it until he passed away to the needs of the small frontier community. The bank symbolizes
in 1949. His son, George the commercial development of Fort Pierre during the early 20th
Ricketts, operated Andy’s Meat century as the business center for much of western South
Market until 1969 when George Dakota’s cattle raising activity. The two-story brick building
Middleton bought it and it dominates the center of town on its site at the corner of Deadwood
became Butcher Boy. and Main Streets. The cut sandstone foundation, polygonal corner
tower with ornamental festoons, decorative brickwork and arched
In later years, it was used by the Cowboy windows and brick keystones set it apart from the other buildings
Inn/Rock’n R Bar, the Fort Pierre Times in town.
newspaper, a taxidermy shop, and two
different electrician’s offices. The building Charles L. Millett and his wife settled in Fort Pierre in 1890 when
was purchased in 2019 by Ryan and the Great Sioux Reservation opened to white settlement. They
Tessa Krueger and remodeled for the established squatter rights for their residence in April of that year
CHALK Pre-School and Krueger and officially incorporated a banking enterprise at the corner of
Contracting office. Deadwood and Main Streets calling it the Stockgrower’s Bank.

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