Inside view of F.W. Cook Brewing Co. at 11 NW 7th St., looking down on 3 businessmen standing near a vat.""The City Brewery was founded in 1853 by Frederick Washington Cook and Jacob Rice in what was then a cornfield beyond downtown. It split from the ""old brewery"" and opened its own at 11 NW 7th St. By 1880, the Cook & Rice City Brewery had an ice house, malt house, stable, and office that covered entire block bounded by 7th (M L King), Sycamore, 8th, and Main. After Rice's death in 1885, it was renamed F W Cook Brewing Co." (http://historicevansville.com/site.php?id=fwcook) Operation ceased in 1957, and in 1965 the building was razed.