Property Record
LITTLE KAUKAUNA LOCK AND DAM
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Little Kaukauna Lockkeeper's House |
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| Other Name: | Little Kaukauna Lockkeeper's House |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 49699 |
| Location (Address): | LITTLE KAUKAUNA LOCK AND DAM |
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| County: | Brown |
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| Township/Village: | Rockland |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 22 |
| Range: | 20 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 18 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1911 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 19882023 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Dutch Colonial Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Little Kaukauna Lock and Dam Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/7/1993 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Waterway Resources of the Lower Fox River |
| Additional Information: | Photo code #1: FCS 3/36. This building is a two story Colonial Revival house of the type most common to keeper's houses on the waterway. A gambrel-roofed rectangle, it has rectangular frame porches projecting at the front (downstream) and rear. The front porch is flat-roofed, the rear hipped. Built on a level portion of a peninsula between the lock and an industrial power channel, the house has a brick first story with windows with stone sills. The upper-story gable is clad with wooden shingles and has two windows surmounted by a louvered attic vent. The two uppper-story windows in the lockside gable are separated by a horizontal window at floor level that presumably lighted a staircase. The roof has a molded cornice with endwall returns. Its upper slope extends front and rear as pairs of shed-roofed dormers with molded cornices with sidewall returns. A brick chimney projects at the middle of the roof ridge. Windows and doors throughout are covered with wooden panels. Construction was completed in 1904. 2023: The lockkeeper’s house was constructed circa 1911 in the Dutch Colonial Revival style is northeast of the lock. According to the NRHP nomination, Albert Luckow and John Copps, of Kaukauna, contracted to build the new lockkeeper’s house “similar to that at Little Chute.” The house has a side gable roof, covered by an asphalt shingles. Two shed roof dormers are located on both the northwest and southeast roof slopes. These dormers are clad in fiber cement shingles, and box gutters are located at the bottom of the roof slope. There is a centrally located, interior brick chimney at the roof ridgeline. The house is brick with fiber cement shingles at the gables, the cornice, the enclosed front porch, and the rear addition. The window and door openings are covered with wood louvered panels. Five concrete steps lead up to the front entry. The foundation is brick. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, 1911 - Appendix JJ: Report Upon the Improvement of Rivers & Harbors in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, District (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1911), 2342. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |