Built by A.W. Pettibone in 1872 for his dry goods business, later in the nineteenth century the block was split into two stores, a dry goods house and a drug store.  During the turn of the century years, the dry goods store was operated by the Mattice family and the drug store by Ottmar Schallern.  By 1909 the building was again combined to house the Mattice-Foster Company Department Store, one of Ripon’s larger department stores.  The business was in operation until 1935 when Ben Marcus established the Campus Theatre, the first of over ---- in his movie empire that stretch across the Midwest.

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