Property Record
400 S WASHINGTON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MILWAUKEE ROAD PASSENGER DEPOT |
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| Other Name: | Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce |
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| Reference Number: | 2241 |
| Location (Address): | 400 S WASHINGTON ST |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1898 |
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| Survey Date: | 1986 |
| Historic Use: | depot |
| Architectural Style: | Neoclassical/Beaux Arts |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | CHARLES S. FROST |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 8/16/1996 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 12/1/1995 |
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| Additional Information: | Photo code #2: 75BR-13/5 Formerly 408 S. Washington (1957 Sanborn-Perris Map). Fine intact railroad passenger station sensitively converted to new use. Side gabled rectilinear main block with a gable roofed entrance pavillion. Three rusticated brick pilasters frame the twin double entrance doors each of which is surmounted by a blind semi-circular arch filled with brick laid in a basket weave pattern. The pilasters support a wide cut stone cornice. The stepped gable roof above has a parpet surmounted by cut stone coping and is terminated by a finial above. The entrance pavillion is flanked by areaded semi-circular head windows on the first floor of the main block. This block has simplified stepped gable end walls with chimneys piercing the apex of the gables. The original gable roof veranda covering the loading platform on the west facing facade of the building is still intact. Square wooden posts with knee braces support the roof of the veranda. The interior of the building has been altered, and most detailing has been hidden, except for the fine example of a FLemish Rennaissance inspired design utilized for a modern building. The Milwaukee Road depot is considered architecturally significant as the best example of the Rennaissance Revival style in the community, as interpreted in a commercial building. It is also the most intact and best maintained of the remaining depots. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Inc. Fire Insurance Map of Green Bay, Wisconsin. New York, 1957. (B) Betsy Foley, ed., Green Bay: Gateway to the Great Waterway, 1983, p. 151. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |