| Additional Information: | Photo code #2: BR-FRV 1-26-8,30
Various buildings spanning several generations. Factory building (1429 Main Street) extends the length of the block on Grove Street and its main facade faces west. All first floor windows in this building have been fileed on the main and grove street facades, but some of the original metal sash windows survive on the Cedar Street facade. The 2nd floor of the grove Street (east facing) facade retains its original 1/1 lite windows. The building is encircled by a nice concrete beltcourse between the 2st and 2nd floors and has terra cotta coping on the parapet. The factory office is in a small, later one-story-tall building at 1425 Main Street (91/11) and has 2/2 lite windows with horizontal muntins.
The building behind the office has a gable roof and brick walls and is one story tall and apepars to be the oldest on the site.
#650: Boiler house built in 1932.
NAER INVENTORY (06/1979):
The Green Bay Canning Corp. consists primarily of a two-story, flat-roofed building with concrete slab construction and brick exterior. The building, a processing facility, is rectangular in shape and measures approximately 200' x 50', with concrete foundation and columns. The entire Ge]reen Bay Canning Corp. plant consists of at least trhee other smaller, mostly two-story, flat-roofed and conneceted buildings, some with concrete block construction. The entire plant is irregularly shaped.
The Green Bay Canning Co. began buisiness in 1907, formed in part by J. S. Johnson, a wholesale fish dealer; Andrew Ries, involved in livery, hotel and real estate businesses; and T.A. Rahr, president of the Rahr brewing Co. the company expected to pack tomatoes, kraut and beets, and possibly other vegetables. Part of the canning company facilities were destroyed by a fire in 1915. In 1934, the firm became a corporation. The main processing building in existence today was built in 1943, architectural plans indicate. Earlier wooden and metal-clad wooden construction at the site was either demolished or built over, although some brick remnants remain. Three additional buildings have been added since 1945. Production figures show the firm turned out 166,000 cases of vegetables in 1945, 182,000 in 1946 and 174,00 in 1947. |
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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 Unpublished manuscript on file, Historic Preservation division, State Historical Society of wisconsin.
(B.) Sanborn-Perris Map co., Inc. fire Insurance Map of Green Bay, Wisconsin. New York, 1957.
(C.) Fred A. Stare, THE STORY OF WISCONSIN'S GREAT CANNING INDUSTRY, TheCanning Trade, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 1949, p. 429-30.
(D.) Denis L'Empereur, general manager, interviewed by Bill Meindl, 08/29/1980. |
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