Property Record
120 Dorr St
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Antigo Milk Products Co-operative (AMPC) |
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| Reference Number: | 246318 |
| Location (Address): | 120 Dorr St |
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| County: | Langlade |
| City: | Antigo |
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| Year Built: | 1930 |
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| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2023: The property at 120 Dorr Street is presently owned by the Antigo Unified School District and used as the district’s administrative office building. The buildings were originally constructed by the Antigo Milk Products Co-operative in the early 1930s. The co-operative was founded in 1930 and developed the site adjacent to the Chicago and Northwestern railroad line. Aerial imagery captured in 1938 indicates the property consisted of the extant office building, adjacent building, and the warehouse as well as three plant related buildings and a series of storage tanks. The AMPC operated until 1970 when it merged with the Kansas based American Milk Producers Incorporation. The AMPC plant was subsequently adapted to produce whey and dog food under the operation of Universal Foods. In 1984, the Universal Foods operation ceased. In 1985, the office building was donated to the Antigo Unified School District and continues to serve as the district’s administrative office. By 1998, the plant buildings and storage tanks were lost or demolished. A small portion of the westernmost plant remains extant with access from Lincoln Street. The one-story warehouse building was constructed circa 1930. It is an astylistic utilitarian building with a long, narrow rectangular plan and a bowstring truss roof. The warehouse stands on a poured concrete slab. Both the exterior walls and the roof are clad in ribbed metal. Four sliding vehicular doors are evenly spaced in the east elevation toward the location of the former storage tanks. Six-lite fixed sash metal windows are placed in the east elevation on either side of the vehicular doors except at the southernmost end where the window has been closed and covered. At the northernmost end, a pedestrian door has been partially in-filled and converted to a single-pane window. Eight round metal ventilators are spaced along the roof ridge. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Antigo Milk Products Cooperative” Langlade County Historical Society Newsletter Fall 2009. Joe Hermolin, “Ag economics fueled county’s early dairy industry,” Prime Time, (Antigo, WI: Langlade County Historical Society, June 2018). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |