Property Record
625 UNIVERSITY AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | STRAUBEL MACHINE SHOP |
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| Other Name: | Straubel Machine Co. |
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| Reference Number: | 2208 |
| Location (Address): | 625 UNIVERSITY AVE |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1908 |
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| Survey Date: | 198620192022 |
| Historic Use: | industrial building |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
| Demolished Date: | 0 |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This property is now a parking lot. Formerly 625 Willow (Sanborn-Perris Map, 1957). Original rectangular one-story-tall building has a sawtooth roof. Later one-story-tall addition added on west facing facade. The original segmental arched window openings with double header coursed brick lintels are still visible on the east and south facing facades, although they are now filled with concrete block. The side walls are pilastered and parapets have terra cotta coping. The main facade has a corbelled brick parapet. Several large, one-story tall flat roofed brick buildings are modern additions. CORBEL TABLE,STRAUBEL& SONS BEGAN STRAUBEL MACHINE COMACHINE FOR MAKING INTERFOLD TOWELS PATENTED HERESTRAUBEL ALSO PATENTED DOUBLE FOLD TOILET TISSUE INTERFOLDING MACHINE. NAER INVENTORY (06/1979): In 1897 Louis Straubel purchased a small machine shop. He and his two brothers, Ernest T. and Ed L., formed a closed stock company which they named the Straubel Machine Company. The company catered to the local paper mills designing and improving many paper converting machines. The first machine for making interfold towels in Green Bay was designed and patented by L.A. Straubel, and sold to Northern Paper Mills in 1917. In 1920 the company began converting paper on its own machines instead of selling the machines. In 1929 Straubel designed and patented the first double fold toilet tissue interfolding machine. Much of the original equipment is in good repair and still being used in the factory. The original building was built in 1908 and measures 60' x 165'. It is built of brick and it has a saw toothed roof. An additional dated pre-1934 is listed in the Sanborn Map as having a sawtooth steel truss roof. 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 Society of Wisconsin. (B) Sanborn-Perris Map Co. Inc. Fire Insurance Map of Green Bay, Wisconsin, New York, 1957. (C.) Brown Co., WI, Real Estate Tax Rolls-Green Bay, 1908, p. 15, Brown Series 4, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, housed in Area Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. (D.) "Straubel Machines Have Been Factor in Paper Industry," Green Bay Press-Gazette, Tercentenial Edition (July 1934), p. 2, Industrial Section. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |