City Hotel

Touchdown Tavern, formerly Roper Hotel or Roper's City Hotel, is a restaurant and bar in a historic hotel building in the Second Empire style at 125 East Main Street in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States. The two-storey red brick structure with stone trim and a mansard roof was designed by Edward M. Hackett and constructed in 1886 for $10,000. It includes arched window frames, brick detailing on the facade and a small porch with ornamental metal balustrade on the second floor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Wisconsin in 1984. It was built for the Reedsburg Building & Lumber Co.. When it was the Roper Hotel it had 17 guest rooms, a sitting room and parlor on the first floor, a bar, a reading room, and three private rooms with kitchen and dining facilities. It had a livery stable in back. More recently it was the Town Club and the building now houses the Touchdown Tavern restaurant and bar downstairs and a single large apartment upstairs. The Tavern is known for its trademarked Reedsburger, a hamburger prepared with locally sourced High View Bison. The tavern also house the Agnes Moorehead Lounge, an exhibit of memorabilia from Agnes Moorehead's career in radio, stage, television and movies, including as the witch mother-in-law on the television sitcom Bewitched. The Touchdown Tavern is one of the venues for Reedsburg's Fermentation Fest.