Property Record
600 S VULCAN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Patton Paper Mill Office |
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| Other Name: | FOX VALLEY CORP. |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 26971 |
| Location (Address): | 600 S VULCAN ST |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | Appleton |
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| Year Built: | 1940 |
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| Survey Date: | 19922019 |
| Historic Use: | small office building |
| Architectural Style: | Art/Streamline Moderne |
| Structural System: | Concrete Beam |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | N |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | PHOTO CODE 8/28 IS FILED WITH THE FOX CANAL SURVEY NEGATIVES. FCS 8/28 - FOX VALLEY CORP. HEADQUARTERS - is a flat-roofed, two-story office building in Art Moderne style. Built of tapestry brick, its symmetrical plan features a roadside facade of three bays with upper and lower windows separated by dark glass spandrels and a central entry shielded by a flat metal canopy hung on rods. This entry wall, with flush piers and cornice, is flanked by receding quarter-round walls that intersect quarter-round walls of greater radius. The quarter-round lobes and their tangent sidewalls have a cornice of three superimposed string courses capped by stone trim. There are metal-framed windows in the first story of the rear and sidewalls. A tall brick smokestack abuts the rear of the building. Fox River Valley Industrial Survey The Patton Paper Mill was first established at a non-extant building in Neenah in 1874. The mill moved production to Appleton in 1885, occupying a site along the northern shore of the island in the Fox River. The non-extant Patton Paper Company Mill operated at this site through the 1950s. In 1940, the company, then owned by the adjacent Fox River Paper Company, constructed a small Art Modern style office along South Vulcan Street near the entrance to the mill site. The proposed South Island Industrial Historic District was identified for its prevalence of notable industrial buildings constructed between 1887 and 1940, having local significance under National Register Criterion C: Architecture and Criterion A: History in the area of Industry. The district is comprised of five contributing resources, one of which, the Appleton Woolen Mills, is already individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |