Property Record
1550 BYLSBY AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | WISCONSIN PUBLIC SERVICE CORP |
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| Other Name: | BAYSIDE ELECTRIC PLANT |
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| Reference Number: | 1976 |
| Location (Address): | 1550 BYLSBY AVE |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1926 |
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| Additions: | 1940 1959 1950 1944 |
| Survey Date: | 19852021 |
| Historic Use: | public utility/power plant/sewage/water |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. City of Green Bay, Wisconsin - Architectural and Historical Intensive Survey Report Phase 1 - 2021 Photo code #3: BR-FRV 10/1. Brick pilastered exterior walls with few windows. Originally there were seven seperate chimneys. The seven original chimneys have been consolidated into one large multi-chimney stack between 1980 and 1986. Most exterior walls are brick pilastered and are without window openings. The earliest, northernmost generating unit buildings have decorative cement tiles defining corners of full height bays on facades but building is otherwise unornamented. NAER INVENTORY (06/1979): The Pulliam Power Plant is three to seven story, primarily coal-fired electrical generating plant with a generating capacity of 400,000 kilowatts. The facility has at least partial concrete reinforcement and steel skeleton construction, primarily a brick pilastered exterior and seven smoke stacks. The several flat roofs of the irregularly shaped facility reflect various additions made after the initial construction. The then-called Wisconsin Public Service Co. was started in 1912 with the acquisition of three locally owned utilities by Clement C. Smith and associates of Milwaukee. The firm later became a corporation. The Bayside Electric Plant was constructed in 1926 at a cost of more than $2 million and housed two 10,000-kilowatt turbo-generator units. In 1943 another 30,000-kilowatt unit began producing power. In 1947 a fourth unit, also of 30,000-kilowatt capacity went into operation. Construction on a fifth unit of 50,000-kilowatt capacity was completed in 1949. In 1951, construction was completed on a sixth unit of 62,500-kilowatt capacity, bringing total plant capacity to 192,500 kilowatts, or the third largest power plant in the state. Subsequent construction brought the plant's capacity to its current 400,000 kilowatt. In 1979 one of the two original generating units was retired; the other, now oil and gas fired, is a peaking unit used only during periods of high electrical demand. The six other generating units at the plant utilize coal. Demolished sometime between 2018 and 2020 |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A.) Sanborn maps. (B.) City building permit records. (C.) Green Bay: Gateway to the Great Waterway by Betsy Foley. Woodland Hills, California: Windsor Publications, 1983. (D.) "Wisconsin Public Service Has $10,2500,000 Investment in County," GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, July 18, 1934, Wisconsin Tercentennial Edition, p. 10, Industrial Section, col. 6. (E.) "Gas-Lighted Streets...," THE WISCONSIN MAGAZINE, 1951, Special Green Bay Number, Madisen Publishing Co., Appleton, WI, p. 63. (F.) S.J. Santy, advertising and public information director for Wisconsin Public Service Corp., interviewed by Bill Meindl, 09/11/1980. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |