Property Record
DE PERE LOCK AND DAM
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Other Name: | De Pere Lock Shack |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 47192 |
| Location (Address): | DE PERE LOCK AND DAM |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | De Pere |
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| Survey Date: | 1988 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | De Pere Lock and Dam Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/7/1993 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 4/10/1992 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Waterway Resources of the Lower Fox River |
| Additional Information: | Photo code #1: FCS 3/31 Related Buildings: Dam, Lock Complex. This is a 1.5 story front gabled building that is used as the locktender's station. Clad with drop siding and roofed with asphalt shingles, it has walls bounded by pilaster strips, and plain window and door surrounds. The building rests on a more recent cement foundation buildt into the landward lock embankment. This foundation, entered by a (downstream) side door, serves as a storage basement. The front, left-side entry and right, front window are shielded by a full-width, shed-roofed canopy supported by triangular brackets with kingposts. There are two windows in each side wall, and one window centered in the rear wall. The main floor ahas two rooms; a front, plainly panelled office, and a rear storeroom and stair hall. An enclosed staircase leads to a short attic lighted by multipaned horizontal windows in front and rear gables. This building is thought to have been the lockkeeper's house in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Its date of construction, therefore, is presumed to be 1879, the year in which a new lockkeeper's house was built (1). |
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| Bibliographic References: | Annual Report Upon the Improvement of the Harbors of Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha, Lake Michigan, and Improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, in charge of D.C. Houston, Major of Engineers, Bvt. Colonel, USA; Being Appendix AA of the Annual Report of teh Chief of Engineers for 1879 (Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1879), 1544. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |