| Additional Information: | Photo code #3: BR-FRV 12/15
Later, largely intact cold storage building having a two-story tall block facing west whose first floor isoutlined by the reinforced concrete structural frame which acts as a beltcourse surrounding the entire building. The west facing facade has the original truck landing dock across its entire width. The north side of this building has the principal entrance door outlined with a wide, stepped brick surround. All 2nd floor windows have been replaced with later energy-efficient units.
A larger, shorter two story tall wing extends the building to the east. This wing is original to the building.
NAER INVENTORY (09/1979):
The oldest of the current Vandertie Cold Storage, Inc. buildings was constructed in the 1890's. It is a three-story wood structure with metal siding, a shed roof and railroad car loading dock along its south side. The north side, which fronts along the East River, at one time had docking facilities. The rectangular building measures approximately 175' x 90', has 24 inch thick walls and has been remodeled inside.
The C.W. Streckenbach & Co., packers and shippers of fresh, salt and smoked fish, is listed as occupying this site about 1894 and was called the "largest and best known" packers and shippers of fish in Green Bay. The company cured and packed bay of Green Bay, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior white fish, trout, yellow pike, bass, pickerel, perch and cat fish, employing 26 "hands" and 75 "fishermen." The proprietors were C.W. Streckenbach and L.C. Schilling. The first reference to this company at this site among available city directories is 1898-99. By 1911, the occupant of the site was the Frank C. Schilling Co., wholesale fich and produce. A 1917 insurance map indicates that packing and shipping were carried out on the first floor of the building, storage on the second and third. The building also housed an ice house. Red Owl stores purchased the facility in the late 1930's to use as a warehouse; and the Vandertie firm became the occupant in 1954. A second building, a two story facility, was constructed adjacent to the above building in 1936 on the site of a city owned general storage area and public hay market but apparently has only been used for warehouse and/or cold storage purposes.
Green Bay Intensive Survey Phases 2, 3 & 4 |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A.) Abrahams, Paul P. Industrial Survey of Brown County, Industrial Sites, Historical Industrial Survey. Unpublished manuscript on file, Historic Preservation Division, State Historical Soceity of Wisconsin.
(B.) Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Inc. Fire Insurance Map of Green Bay, Wisconsin. New York, 1957, 1917 (p.6).
(C.) Ralph G. Vandertie, president and owner of Vandertie Cold Storage, Inc., interviewed by Bill Meindl, 09/04/1980.
(D.) Gerald Bertrand, THE GREEN BAY WATERSHED PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program, January, 1976, technical report #229, p. 139; photocopied advertisement from PEN & SUNLIGHT SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPLE CITIES IN WISCONSIN, Phoenix Publishing Co, Chicago, IL, ca. 1894.
(E.) Wright's Directory of Green Bay, 1898-99, vol. 5, A.G. Wright, Milwaukee, WI, 1898, p. 226 and 262.
(F.) Wright's Directory of Green Bay, 1911-12, vol. 12, Wright Directory Co., Milwaukee, WI, 1911, p. 381
(G.) Abstract of Vandertie Cold Storage, Inc., item #273, reference to lots 311-313, examined by Bill Meindl, 09/29/1980. |
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