Rindernecht House - 1887

Client: Historic Erie Preservation Trust

Location: 512 West. 6th, Erie, Pennsylvania
Dates: Original building — c. 1887; Renovation - In progress
National Register of Historic Places Listing: Contributing building in the West Sixth Street Historic District.
Size: 4,490 SF

Listed as a Homestead-style in the National Register of Historic Places, the clapboard-sided house was built c.1887 for William F Rindernecht, Jr. (1853-1900) and his wife, Ida Jane Welshman Rindernecht (1852-1934).

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William F Rindernecht, Jr. was born in 1853 and married Ida Jane Welshman by the summer of 1880. Their only child, William E Rindernecht (1881-1937) would be born a year later. William would enter the meat and cattle business with his brother, John J. Rindernecht (1857-1908), and operate Rindernecht Bros. from the Erie Stock Yards in the 1880s. William was secretary and treasurer of the New Consumers’ Brewing Company when he died in 1900. William would use the professional title "junior" because his uncle, William F. Rindernecht (1818-1891), was a prominent businessman in Erie. The uncle was a senior member of William F. & J. J. Rindernecht, dealers in hats, caps, and furnishing goods at 502 State Street; president of the Erie Boot and Shoe Company; and, at the time of his death, president of the Erie County Insurance Company.

This house was listed as 512 W. Sixth Street (Rindernecht House) in the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior as a contributing building in the West Sixth Street Historic District in 1984.