| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office.
Yellow brick color; brick elevations articulated by recessed corbel trimmed recessed panels accented by stage brick piers with corbelled ends and paired arched two story south side bays; two arched entrances on southeast corner; filled in windows and doors projecting brick window heads with corbelled ends.
Originally housing C.L. and B offices on the first floor and the offices of various concerns such as the Mississippi Logging Company on the second floor, this brick office building has been greatly altered over the years. Once possessing a corner clock tower and entrance as well as an oriel window, multiple gables once extended picturesque above the roof line in a manner associated with the Queen Anne Revival style. Very little of the original essentially electic architectural character of this structure remains.
Historically significant as the representative of the "big mill" lumber industry, the Chippewa Lumber and Booom Company office building was constructed in 1883 and has probably retained enough architectural character to be identified as a significant structure.
This buidling was constructed by Frederick G. Weyerhauser in 1883, the deed was transfered to the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company on July 10, 1886. Subsequent owners included: A.J. McGilvray (August 27, 1912-August 29, 1912), Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company (August 29, 1912 - June 13, 1914). Wisconsin-Minnesota Lights and Power Company (June 13, 1914-_ January 28, 1919-December 31, 1920< Masonic Lodge (December 31, 1920-November 9, 1982), Moose Lodge (November 9, 1982-Present).
The building was originally used to house the offices of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company with the A.J. Post and Company (wholesale grocers) on the first floor. Second floor tenants included: Chippewa Logging Company, Mississippi River Logging Company, Chippewa River and Menomonie Railway Company and W.E. McCord. (H)
This building was built in 1883 by Frederick G. Weyerhauser to house the offices of the Chippewa Lumber and Booom Company. For three decades this company, and associated Weyerhauser concerns (also housed in the building), dominated logging and lumber milling along the CHippewa River, the primary industry of the region.(I).
This building is one of two extant buildings in Chippewa Falls associated with the Chippewa LUmber and Boom Company.
Feb. 2021: Subsequent changes include the installation of awnings over the front entrance and the removal of paneling from two second story windows |
|---|
| Bibliographic References: | A. Daily Independent 28 November, 1887.
B. Chippewa Daily Press 7 February 1920.
C. Chippewa Herald 4 December 1883
D. Register of Deeds, Chippewa County (Chippewa Falls, Wis.)
E. Chippewa Herald 14 December, 1883; Register of Deeds.
F. Ibid.
G. Ibid.
H. Daily Independent 28 November, 1887.
I. Ralph Wihidy, Frank Ernest Hill and Allan Nevins, Timber and Men: The Weyerhauser Story (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963). pp. 97-100.
J. Pen and Sunlight Sketches of the Prinicpal Cities in Wisconsin (Chicago: Phoenix Publishing Co. c. 1892)., pp. 168-169. |
|---|
