Property Record
1327 MILWAUKEE DR
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Depies Firestone Sales & Service |
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| Reference Number: | 224322 |
| Location (Address): | 1327 MILWAUKEE DR |
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| County: | Calumet |
| City: | New Holstein |
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| Year Built: | 1967 |
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| Survey Date: | 2012 |
| Historic Use: | gas station/service station |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This one-story, concrete and brick commercial building is comprised of two units; a one-story store to the north, with a slightly taller one-story, garage/service wing to the southeast. Each building is topped with large precast concrete beams that overhang to support the overhanging flat roof. A pair of aluminum-frame glass doors with a plate-glass window to each side is centered along the retail unit, while the service wing includes four, large, overhead garage doors. The words “Complete Car Service” run beneath the roofline. This facility was built in 1967 as Firestone Sales and Service, the owners of which were brothers Joseph Jr. and Paul Depies, sons of Joseph & Margaret Depies. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company was started by Harvey Firestone in 1900 in Akron, Ohio. Retail tire sales and basic car service began in the mid-1920s. By the 1940s, the Firestone Home & Auto Store concept appeared, which offered one-stop shopping for auto-related items, as well as household appliances, bicycles and lawnmowers, among other things. In the 1960s, the retail stores evolved to include Complete Car Service, the words of which still remain on the subject structure. Bridgestone Corporation purchased Firestone in 1988 and, two years later, their name reflected the merger as Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Who We Are,” Available online at www.bridgestone-firestone.com/corporate/retailoperations/index.html, Accessed in July 2013; New Holstein Telephone Directories, 1964 to 1976; “Paul W. Depies,”Obituary (death date, 3 November 2012), Available online at www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/601853/Depies-Paul.php, Accessed July 2013. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |