Property Record
2151 Main St
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Kohl's Grocery |
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| Reference Number: | 246591 |
| Location (Address): | 2151 Main St |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1974 |
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| Survey Date: | 2023 |
| Historic Use: | large retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2023 - Kohl’s became a pioneer of the modern supermarket trend in the 1950s with its large buildings, modern architecture, automatic doors, on-site parking, interior mezzanines, and the inclusion of a deli and bakery within the store. By 1972, there were fifty Kohl’s supermarkets in southeastern Wisconsin, and it was the largest grocery chain in Milwaukee County with other locations across the state. Not all Kohl’s constructed in the 1950s and 1960s were identical, though they did share the arched roofed element. Kohl’s stores were eventually sold to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in 1983, though it retained Kohl’s name and branding. In 2003, the grocery stores were sold again, and the company dissolved. Two large Kohl’s Food Markets were developed in the early 1970s in Green Bay; one on the west side at a non-extant location along Lombardi Avenue, and the other on the east side. The east side location was a part of the East Ridge shopping mall constructed in 1974 as a strip-mall. The mall was owned by E.N. Maisel and Associates of Detroit and constructed by the Malen Construction Co. of Detroit. The anchoring Kohl’s grocery was designed based on a prototype and is one of the larger models of Kohl’s Food markets with a glu-laminated wood arched structural system with over a 120-foot span. |
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| Bibliographic References: | 2023 - Green Bay Gazette, April 7, 1975; and ‘Day 10: Remember Kohl’s Food Store,’ Razed in Milwaukee website. <www.razedinmilwaukee.com/day-10-remember-kohls-food-store>; & ‘Kohl's Arch-Roofed Food Stores,’ The Andrew Turnbull Network website. <www.andrewturnbull.net/digging/kohls.html>. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |