Beautiful Downtown Loft! Ready to move in! Great Holiday Specials - This 1 bedroom 1 bath is one of Joplin's more prolific decades occurred during the 1890s when the zinc mining was well entrenched into the culture of our community. House supplies or better known as dry goods were in great demand. With these favorable conditions, two young fortune seekers from Dubuque, Iowa arrived in Joplin on their way to New Orleans. Mr. Peter Christman and Mr. Edmund Bliedung decided to stay put and on September 13, 1890 opened the Christman and Bliedung Dry Goods Store.