Property Record
228 GREEN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | WISCONSIN BUTTER AND CHEESE FACTORY |
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| Other Name: | WRIGHTSTOWN MILK PRODUCTS |
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| Reference Number: | 2349 |
| Location (Address): | 228 GREEN ST |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Wrightstown |
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| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Survey Date: | 2006 |
| Historic Use: | cheese factory |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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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: | 2006-RESURVEY MODERN REPLACEMENT WINDOWS. 1975-SOME ALTERED AND SOME ORIGINAL SEGMENTAL ARCH WINDOWS SIMPLE INSET CORBEL TABLE OVER SYMMETRICAL FACADE In photo and/or map codes, (F) stands for Fox River Valley Survey. Negatives filed with survey project. HAER INVENTORY (06/1979): The Wrightstown Milk Products facility is one to one and a half story, rectangular-shaped structure with a brick exterior painted mainly white. It measures approximately 50' x 70' and has been extensively remodeled inside. The facility has at least a partial gable roof. The facade has a boomtown-like appearance, and brick imbrication. The structure originally housed the Wisconsin Butter & Cheese Factory and was built about 1900. The Wisconsin Butter and Cheese firm is included in a 1900 listing of businesses in Wrighstown. Several persons ownd and operated the firm in its early years. In 1943 it was purchased by Clarence Cootway. In 1962 Tolibia Cheese, Inc. bought the facility and continues the operation under the name of Wrightstown Milk Products. The facility is used as a receiving station for milk, and for cheese manufacturing when market conditions allow. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A.) Clarence Cootway, former owner, interviewed by Craig Laurent, 1979. (B.) Ruth Roebke, FROM BRIDGEPORT TO WRIGHTSTOWN, Franciscan Publishers, Pulaski, WI, 1971, "Business and Commerce in 1900," p. 87-88. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |