Property Record
MONROE ST N
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Building A - Wood Machine Shop |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 48201 |
| Location (Address): | MONROE ST N |
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| County: | St. Croix |
| City: | North Hudson |
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| Year Built: | 1890 |
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| Survey Date: | 1983 |
| Historic Use: | repair shop/roundhouse |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
| Demolished Date: | 2009 |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Car Shop Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 10/4/1984 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | Destroyed by fire 1/2009. Description: Rectangular, one-story vernacular 19th century industrial building, constructed of pilastered brick, gable roof with monitor and cruciform brick work at cornices, granite foundations (not visible) with beaveled stone water table, windows set in recessed, corbelled brick panels. North side: Large arched doors with voussiors partly boarded; triple-hung rectangular multi-pane windows with stone lug sills, partly boarded; freight platform constructed of concrete block added to north side (non contributing). West side: continuous row of segmental triple-hung windows with multi-pane trimmed with voussiors and stone lug sills, placed in pairs in recessed panels. South side: Large arched doorways (concrete block) flanked by segmental windows with lug sills and voussiors. East side: Continuous row of segmental triple-hung windows with multi-pane trimmed with voussiors and lug sills, placed in pairs in recessed panels, an original and a 1904 wing from the eat facade removed in early 1980's, metal addition placed on east facade in 1983 (non-contributing). Background: The wood machine shop was a primary building in the complex as the engines and boilers provided steam to heat, light, and power the entire system of shops. Shavings nad dust from each machine were conveyed through blowers into the boiler room. Among the new machinery installed was a sill dresser, cut-off saw and reversable borer, end-trimming machine, hollow chisel mortice, timber gainer, gflooring machine, double surfacer, Daniels planer, large tenoning machine, band saws, wood shaper, morticer, door and sash, tenoner and splitting machines. An east side wing, original to the structure, was expanded to the south in 1904, but both were removed in the early 1980's. A large single story metal addition was erected to the east facade in 1983. In an attempt to "sympathetically" unit the addition with the original brick, a rustic reddish color metal was used in construction. However, the attempt falls short of compatibility in materials, design,a nd workmanship, seriously reducing the architectural integrity of the former Wood Machine Shop. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. "Occupied," Hudson Star-Times, March 20, 1891, page 1. B. "Hudson Secures Great Railway Shops...." Jidspm Star-Times, May 16, 1890, page 1. C. Tenth Annual Report of the C., St. P., M., & O. Railway Co. (St. Paul: By Author, 1890). D. West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission Case Studies: Adaptive Reuse Strategies. (Eau Claire: By Author, 1982), pages 47-64. E. Sandborn-Perris Insurance Maps. (NYC: Sandborn Map & Pub. Co., 1891). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |