Property Record
819 6TH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul RR Repair Yard |
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| Reference Number: | 29188 |
| Location (Address): | 819 6TH ST |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1913 |
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| Survey Date: | 198520212022 |
| Historic Use: | repair shop/roundhouse |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
| Demolished Date: | 0 |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Two wings meeting at right angles with the shorter west wing having a gable roof with an enclosed minotor above while the longer south wing has a simple gable roof. The south wing is pilastered for its whole length with each pair of pilasters forming two segmental arched windows now filled with composition board. This wing has steel trusses in the roof and is probably newer than the west wing. The west wing has a similar pilastered exterior, but each pair of pilasters frames one very large segmental arched opening now filled with varying materials, including glass and concrete block. The exposed north end of this wing shows the underlying framework of the structural system underneathand suggests that this wing was once longer than it is now. The west wing has wooden trusses in the roof and predates the south wing. Both wings have a corbelled brick freize under the eaves. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad arrived in Fort Howard in the summer of 1862. The right-of-way passed through what had been the side of the fort itself, causing the demolition or moving of the remaining abandoned fort buildings. The following year, a bridge was constructed to Green Bay allowing it to become part of the C&NW system.(C) The repair shop complex is the second facility of that kind for the railroad in Fort Howard. The first roundhouse is clearly depicted in the 1893 Birdseye map of the city.(D) In 1913, a decision was made to construct a new and presumably larger facility north of the original yards. This facility was built in 1913-14 and is the subject of this record. The complex originally had 40 stalls in the roundhoue and a much larger repair shop complex. The roundhouse was partly demolished in the 1970s along with several other structures. (B) |
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| Bibliographic References: | A) Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Inc. Fire Insurance Map of Green Bay, Wisconsin New York, 1957 B) Chicago and North Western Railway Co., Annual Reports, June, 1913 and June, 1914, p. 18 in both C) Betsy foley, Green Bay: Gateway to the Great Waterway, Hollywood, California, 1983, p. 56 D) Birdseye Map of Green Bay and Fort Howard, 1893 |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |