Property Record
100 S DODGE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | BADGER DAIRY COMPANY BUILDING |
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| Other Name: | MAPLE LEAF FARMS - BURLINGTON FEED MILL |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 221225 |
| Location (Address): | 100 S DODGE ST |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | Burlington |
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| Year Built: | 1920 |
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| Additions: | 1941 |
| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | large office building |
| Architectural Style: | Twentieth Century Commercial |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | M F WHITE OF WILBUR LUMBER COMPANY (ARCHITECT); OLAF HOGANSON (BUILDER) |
| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | To achieve better prices for their milk, Chicago area dairy farmers organized the Milk Producer’s Co-Operative Marketing Company in 1909. By the 1920s, the organization had nearly twenty thousand members in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. The Burlington chapter of the organization incorporated as the Badger Dairy Company in 1920 with about three hundred members. Farmers owned a majority of the stock and had direct control over the organization’s general board. Land on Dodge Street along the railroad tracks was purchased and a building was constructed by Olaf Hoganson that same year at 100 S. Dodge Street. Plans for the building were donated by the Wilbur Lumber Company of Milwaukee and drawn by architect, M. F. White, of the lumber company’s architectural department. The 80-foot by 230-foot brick building contained a chilled storeroom, laboratory, a 24-foot by 36-foot concrete water tank, three boilers, and equipment supplied by the Milk Producer’s Co-Operative Marketing Company; the front office wing was constructed to support a future second story. The factory had the capacity to handle 125,000 pounds of milk per day. The Badger Dairy Company produced evaporated milk under the popular brands “Producer” and “Chemung,” in addition to several private brands. The Badger Dairy Company Building was purchased by the Murphy Products Company in 1925. In 1947, L. R. Mangold constructed a second floor to the former Badger Dairy Company office building. The factory portion of the building was destroyed by fire in 1951. |
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| Bibliographic References: | General Files. On file at the Burlington Historical Society, Burlington, Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |