Property Record
500 SCOTT ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Marathon County Savings & Loan |
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| Other Name: | Marathon Savings Bank |
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| Reference Number: | 236466 |
| Location (Address): | 500 SCOTT ST |
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| County: | Marathon |
| City: | Wausau |
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| Year Built: | 1963 |
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| Additions: | 1985 |
| Survey Date: | 2017 |
| Historic Use: | bank/financial institution |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Edmund Schrang |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2018 survey report write-up: This one-story, flat-roofed banking facility is comprised of two periods of construction and faced with a combination of brick, stone, glass and aluminum. The original 1963 portion of the structure is that which faces Scott Street and includes two ends finished with square panels of Texas shellstone. The concave-curved entrance elevation features alternating rows of dark and light colored brick beneath a large expanse of glass panels set within an aluminum framework. Rectangular windows are evident on both the east and west brick-clad elevations. The 1983 entrance addition (from the rear parking lot) was designed in a complementary style to that of the original block and was executed in what appears to be the same brick as the 1963 block. Also part of the 1983 addition was the completion of the drive-through banking wing that extends to the east. Designed by Milwaukee architect Edmund Schrang, Marathon County Savings & Loan was originally built in 1963. The banking institution was established in 1902 as the Marathon County Investment Association. In 1926, the name changed to the Marathon Building and Loan Association and, in 1958, to the Marathon County Savings & Loan. The bank moved several times between 1902 and 1935, when it located to the corner of 4th & Jefferson streets (no longer extant)and where they remained until the subject structure was built in 1963. In 1983, a $1 million addition was made to the building, which included a second entrance, as well as a drive-through banking facility. The design of that addition was done by Bank Building Corp. of St. Louis. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for 2018 survey report information below: “Marathon County Savings, Loan Organized in 1902,” Wausau Daily Record-Herald, 12-page Bank Grand Opening Insert, 12; Cliff Miller, “New Home for Marathon County Savings & Loan,” Opening insert, 2/1-4 and photo; Don Oakland, “1 Million Project Under Way,” Wausau Daily Herald, 30 August 1984, 16/1-4, includes rendering. Historic images of both the interior and exterior of the building included in the aforementioned 12-page Grand Opening insert for the bank, as well as in “Marathon County S & L is Celebrating its 70th Anniversary” 30 June 1972, Centennial Edition, 13. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |