Property Record
102 W BRIDGE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Leahy & Beebe Planing Mill |
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| Other Name: | Mortenson & Stone Lumber Co. |
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| Reference Number: | 50808 |
| Location (Address): | 102 W BRIDGE ST |
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| County: | Marathon |
| City: | Wausau |
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| Year Built: | 1883 |
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| Additions: | 1932 |
| Survey Date: | 1983 |
| Historic Use: | mill |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Board and Batten |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
| Demolished Date: | 0 |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This building was recently disassembled and put into storage for posterity by the City of Wausau. The site is now a CVS store. Roofs: flat, shed with monitor, gable. Complex consists of a flat roofed brick power house, a board and batten shed roof with monitor planing mill, a board and batten gabled dressed lumber shed, and a stucco and stone Tudor Revival office building (originally a gas service station). All structures have a great deal of integrity and stand as good illustrations of early industrial design. A sawmill and planing mill were built by Leahy and Beebe in 1883. Only the planing mill remains. It was purchased in 1893 by Jacob Mortenson and eventually became Mortenson and Stone Lumber Co. On May 28, 1883 a five light dynamo electric machine was installed in the planing mill; it produced the first electricity in Wausau. These buildings are the only remaining strcutures of the early lumber industry in Wausau. 2018: No longer extant. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) "The First Sawmills on the Wisconsin River," Marathon County Historical Society. (B) Wausau Pilot, May 5, 1932. City in the Pinery, A Guide to Wausau's Historic Architecture, The City of Wausau, 1984. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |