Property Record
837 6TH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Chicago, Milw. St. Paul & Pacific RR |
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| Other Name: | Chicago, Milw. St. Paul and Pacific Railroad |
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| Reference Number: | 29191 |
| Location (Address): | 837 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: | Shed roof, clapboard sided addition on the west end is within period of significance. Window upper halves filled at a later date. 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 roundhouse 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 |