The Lemp family built the Wagon House in 1895 to house its fleet of delivery wagons and the horses that carried Lemp brews to distant retailers. A corral for the Percherons, the dappled gray French-bred draft horses used by the Lemp Brewery and a symbol of the brewery, covered the east side of the block. In 1912, an extension was added to the east end of the Wagon House, covering the corral site. Like the rest of the brewery complex, the Wagon House is a masterpiece of brick construction, and from the entrance to its Grand Hall there is a good vantage point to view the brewery complex on the opposite side of Cherokee Street. The rounded walls of its six-story brick grain elevators, the brick arches over massive doorways and windows, and the cornices created by corbelling the brick out from the flat surface of the walls required tremendous skill, turning what could have been a mundane beer factory into a work of building art. The Pointer Family restored the third floor of the Wagon House and operates it as a banquet facility.
