Property Record
125 - 139 S JEFFERSON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Kellogg Public Library / Neville Public Museum |
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| Other Name: | Jefferson Court |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 2071 |
| Location (Address): | 125 - 139 S JEFFERSON ST |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1903 |
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| Additions: | 1926 |
| Survey Date: | 19992017 |
| Historic Use: | library |
| Architectural Style: | Neoclassical/Beaux Arts |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | MARVIN S STEPHENSON (1926 ADDITION); Henry A. Foeller-1903 |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Kellogg Public Library and Neville Public Museum |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 6/9/1981 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Green Bay Downtown Historic District |
| National Register Listing Date: | 5/13/2019 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/16/2018 |
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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 Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Photo code #3: 75BR-12/31,32. 2017-NRHP District Nomination This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1981, and continues to retain its [historic material]. Architect Henry A. Foeller designed this neoclassical style building. It was completed in 1903, but a 1913 addition included interior remodeling. In 1926 an east wing, designed by Marvin S. Stephenson of the firm Foeller, Schober, & Stephenson, was added to accommodate the Neville Museum. The library and museum are one story in height with a full basement. The front façade of the original library has three runs of wide stairs leading to a central ionic portico. The portico has a plain pediment with antefix. Three large windows are to either side of the portico, separated from one another by rectangular pilasters, and each above a smaller basement windows. A temple front with ionic half-column pilasters faces the courtyard at the corner of S. Jefferson and Doty streets. Walls are of coursed, cut Bedford limestone. A hipped roof rests above the cornice and plain frieze. The 1926 museum wing addition is in the same style as the library and gives an L-shape configuration to the building as a whole. The museum has an entrance facing the corner courtyard, with a concrete balustrade forming an open forecourt between the courtyard and basement story entrance. Another entrance is present facing Doty Street. Temple fronts raised above the basement story are present on the two street-facing façades above the entrance doors. The library relocated in 1974 and the museum relocated in 1983. Today this building serves as private offices. Covenant/Easement: From 10/27/1976 to 10/27/1996. A 'covenant file' exists for this property. It may contain additional information such as photos, drawings and correspondence. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. |
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| Bibliographic References: | "The Proposed Carnegie Library Building for the City of Green Bay," rendering of library, including Foeller's name, Green Bay Press-Gazette, 16 August 1901, page 1. "Carnegie Library, Green Bay, Wis.," Includes rendering of library and description in The Improvement Bulletin, 1 February 1902, page 11. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |