Property Record
128 N COMMERCIAL
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Other Name: | Kimberly-Clark Neenah Paper Mill |
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| Reference Number: | 61682 |
| Location (Address): | 128 N COMMERCIAL |
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| County: | Winnebago |
| City: | Neenah |
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| Year Built: | 1874 |
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| Additions: | 1918 1940 |
| Survey Date: | 1988 |
| Historic Use: | mill |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 9F is short for FCS negatives. #650: Mill Buildings. FCS 7/17 - Neenah Paper (C) - is an older, two story utilitarian brick industrial building. Of irregular plan, the building conforms to the curve of the power channel. The gable roofs of the complex are sealed with silver colored coating. The gabled clerestories that run most of the length of the complex are covered with metal sheathing. The rear, upstream portion of teh building has twenty bays of regularly-spaced vertical windows with stone sills. A few retain their original wooden frames; more are filled by metal vent panels or have been randomly infilledd by metal vent panels or have been randomly infilled with brick or reduced with glass block to hold small window inserts. An enclosed wooden staircase to the center of the second floor rests on one edge of shed roofed dock enclosure built along first story. The six bays of the center portion, a transverse wing with an eccentric gable, have narrow segmental arched windows. Only the two bays beneath the apex of gable are not infilled with brick. The fourteen bays of the downstream, front portion have segmental arched windows, most of which are infilled with brick. Ventilation equipment projects from other windows and several positions on the roof. A corbelled brick cornice runs the entire length of the sidewalls and the gabled cross wing. Turn of the century brick industrial building attached to Neo-Georgian Office Building. Begun by A.W. Patten and expanded by the Neenah Paper Company, this Mill is the oldest paper mill in continuous operation (may well be the oldest on the Fox River) and best examplifies the growth and continued prosperity of the paper industry in the area. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Cunningham's History of Neenah, page 190. B. Shattuck's History of neenah, page 45, 88, 133. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |