Property Record
405 S OLDE ONEIDA ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | RAVINE MILL & RAG MILL |
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| Other Name: | FOX RIVER MILLS |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 38951 |
| Location (Address): | 405 S OLDE ONEIDA ST |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | Appleton |
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| Year Built: | 1883 |
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| Additions: | 1892 |
| Survey Date: | 1991 |
| Historic Use: | mill |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Cream Brick |
| Architect: | E.D.JONES |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Fox River Paper Company Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 4/19/1990 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/23/1990 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. Shown in photo are the Ravine Mill and the attached Rag Mill of the former Fox River Paper Company. Additional map codes are: FCS9/22 10/29. Additional photo codes are: FCS 9/22,23. Related buildings: OU 29/10, 12. FCS 9/22 - William House - is a four-story mill. It is a flat-roofed brick rectangle built in two stages. A utilitarian industrial building it has the masonry mass, broad walls, and regular ranges of unornamented windows of the Romanesque Revival. The landward sidewall of the original block has fourteen bays of stone-silled, segmental-arched windows, taller in the third and fourth stories than in the ground and second stories. Their multipaned wooden frames have fixed upper lights. The ground story windows have replacement aluminum storms. In the ground story, the sixth bay from the left has a door with a scroll pediment, the tenth bay opening has been reduced with brick and fitted with a metal door, and the eleventh and twelfth were enlarged as a hooded dock. The sheer walls rise to a pair of stringcourses that define a frieze surmounted by a range of square bases. The range of squares is repeated in a corbelled cornice capped with metal trim. The eight bays of the later upstream extension are identically finished, but its panelled ground-level windows are those of a half-basement. The second story of the addition has the tallest windows in the building. The third and fourth-story windows are level with those of the original building. The third bay of the third story has a transom and paired wooden doors. A similar fourth-story opening has been reduced with brick and provided with a pair of narrow window inserts. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Appleton Post Crescent 6/22/1997. Architecture/History Survey Fox River Bridge Rehabilitation, S. Oneida St. , WisDOT ID#4984-07-00, Prepared by Timothy F. Heggland (July 2011) |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |