Property Record
836-838 PHOEBE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | NORTH END FUEL AND LUMBER CO |
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| Other Name: | WEST END FUEL AND LUMBER CO |
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| Reference Number: | 2170 |
| Location (Address): | 836-838 PHOEBE ST |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1925 |
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| Survey Date: | 198520192021 |
| Historic Use: | lumber yard/mill |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
| Demolished Date: | 0 |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Photo code #5: BR-FRV 13/12,13 This is a small building group comprised of five wood frame buildings and one concrete block which were originally a lumberyard and are now used by the City of Green Bay Park Department for storage. As a group, they represent the only historic lumberyard which survives intact in West Green Bay. Building No. 1: Shed roof with clapboard siding. Roof has exposed rafter ends under the eaves. Building No. 2: Shed roof with clapboard siding and two stories tall. Brackets with three braces under the eaves on the side (east and west) facades. Building No. 3: Gable roof with clapboard siding and true exposed purlin ends under the eaves. Shed roof addition to the south. Building No. 4: Gable roof with shed roof extension to north facade and with clapboard siding. Building No. 5: Hip roof with clapboard siding. Building No. 6: Concrete block walls with stepped parapets and arched roof. NAER INVENTORY (06/1979): The site of the former North End Fuel & Lumber Co. contains at least three buildings built before 1945, including a lumber shed, planing mill building and garage. The largest of the three is the two story wooden lumber shed. The planing mill building is a two story frame structure, with shed roof, which at one time had metal siding. The one-story garage is made of concrete block and has an arched roof and boomtown-like facade. The North End Fuel & Lumber Co. was started in 1925 by Joseph Devroy and E.F. Brunette. In 1934 David Devroy purchased the firm and changed its name to the West Side Fuel & Lumber Co. (The site is also listed as the West End Fuel & Lumber Co. in a 1934 insurance map.) The West Side company made wooden folding chairs, ammunition boxes and moldings and sidings. The planing mill building is estimated to have been constructed between 1925 and 1934 and the lumber shed about 1940. The date of construction of the garage is uncertain. Other building remnants from the site's early years remain. Lumber operations were closed in 1974 and the City of Green Bay uses the site for storage. A part of the site is also used for office space by the Devroy Investment Co. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Inc. Fire Insurance Map of Green Bazy, Wisconsin New York, 1957. B. Brown County Tax Rolls. (C.) Sue Whitney, secretary at the Devroy Investment Co., interviewed by Bill Meindl, 09/24/1980. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |