Property Record
1500 GALLOWAY ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | McDonough Manufacturing Co. |
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| Other Name: | MCDONOUGH MANUFACTURING CO. |
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| Reference Number: | 29639 |
| Location (Address): | 1500 GALLOWAY ST |
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| County: | Eau Claire |
| City: | Eau Claire |
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| Year Built: | 1888 |
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| Survey Date: | 1997 |
| Historic Use: | industrial building |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | Masonry |
| Wall Material: | Concrete Block |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The McDonough Manufacturing company is located at the north bank of the Eau Claire River in an area dominated by industrial concerns. The company forms a complex of brick and metal buildings. The original structures dating from 1888 - the foundry and machine shop - are most likely still included within the group. A drawing of the company is included in Eau Claire Illustrated. The McDonough Maunfacturing Company was organized in 1888 by Frank McDonough, Emmett Horan, and Peter John Holm. The company was incorporated in 1889 with a capital of $100,000. McDonough served as the firm's first president. Frank McDonough (1946-1904) arrived in Eau Claire in 1863 and began working for the lumber firm of Chapman & Thorp as a millwright. He remained with this company (it was later incorporated as the Eau Claire Lumber Company) until 1888 when the enterprise was sold. During this time, McDonough advanced to become one of the company's directors. When the Eau Claire Lumber Compnay was dissolved, McDonough, with Horan and Holm, founded a new company which served the booming lumber industry by supplying sawmill machinery. Eau Claire Illustrated, one of the city's promotional pamphlets, described the company as one of the "largest in the Northwest engaged in the manufacture of special lines of machinery". The firm's specialities "included the McDonough Band Mill, gang edgers, gang trimmers, steel rim pulleys, wood split pulleys, self-feed rip saws, and friction clutch pulleys" (A,B,C). The McDonough Manufacturing directly complemented Eau Claire's lumber industry and added to its manufacturing base. The company is still in operation and continues to produce sawmill machinery. METAL BUILDINGS WERE ADDED. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Eau Claire Illustrated, 1891-92, p. 89. (B) History of Eau Claire County, 1914, p. 478-479. (C) Columbian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery...1895, p. 603. (D) Another map code for this building is EC 5L/4 and its corresponding Survey map name is Plat Map #4. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |