Property Record
RAPIDE CROCHE LOCK AND DAM
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Rapide Croche Plant |
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| Other Name: | Kaukauna Hydroelectric & Water Department Plant |
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| Reference Number: | 27748 |
| Location (Address): | RAPIDE CROCHE LOCK AND DAM |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Buchanan |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 21 |
| Range: | 19 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 4 |
| Quarter Section: | SE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1925 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1993 |
| Historic Use: | public utility/power plant/sewage/water |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | C.r. Meyer Construction Company |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. F in the photo codes is short for FCS. This is a three-story riverside building with an astylistic, utilitarian cement base and a two-story Georgian Revival superstructure. It abuts a government dam at the end opposite a lock channel. There are short, metal-framed horizontal windows set high in each of the eight bays of the slip-formed cement base. The width of two of these bays equals that of three bays of the superstructure; hence, the eight turbine chambers and their subsurface discharge outlets match the span of the twelve bays of the arcaded upper sidewalls. The building can be entered by a metal door in the leftmost of three bays of the landward endwall of a similar door that opens onto the metal walkway above the dam. The tapestry brick superstructure is divided into bays by gigantic pilasters and trimmed with a stone frieze and cornice course. The light color of the stone, seen also as pilaster bases and caps, contrasts with the orange-brown of the brick masonry. The stone-silled apertures of the arcade are filled by multistory, metal-framed windows with bow lights and inward-tilting transoms. A flat roof is masked by a stone-trimmed parapet. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |