101 Main Street - Main Street Cafe

This structure was erected in 1954-5 as a multi-function third City Hall. The first City Hall was the original Roundhouse. The second was a two-story wooden building located at the southwestern corner of the intersection of Garner and Martin Streets, where Merchant George Washington Wise's, who was a son-in-law of Madison's first merchant George Washinton Martin, house had been.

Since the early 1990s Madison has enjoyed a modern fourth City Hall on Hughes Road.

101 Main Street housed the third city jail plus an all-weather parking place for the first city fire truck in the middle. City offices were on the west end and the jail cells were on the east end.

The facility at 101 Main Street is operated by owner Cindy Sensenberger as a restaurant, with an outdoor pavilion and inside seating, including two of the 1950s jail cells. Immediately east of the outdoor seating is a concrete pad with a small pyramid-type block on it. That is a cover over the original city water supply, a cistern. The pyramid held a hand pump for watering horses and people, as well as fighting fires in the town. This was the site of the original Roundhouse, built over the cistern in 1898 and torn down about 1936." It is hugely popular with many dishes favored by local residents. Recently, this restaurant began opening for dinner on selected days.