Property Record
124-130 N ADAMS ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Cady Barnard Building |
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| Other Name: | Frankenthal Building |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 29460 |
| Location (Address): | 124-130 N ADAMS ST |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1928 |
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| Additions: | 1991 |
| Survey Date: | 19852017 |
| Historic Use: | large retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Spanish/Mediterranean Styles |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Cady Land Company (builder); Foeller, Schober, and Berners |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Green Bay Downtown Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/13/2019 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/16/2018 |
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| Additional Information: | Fine example with pilastered facade having intact first floor display windows with alternating flat and segmental and arched windows, each of which has a leaded glass transom and cut stone spandrels above. The facades are pilastered with the inner edge of each pilaster having a two-story-tall thin cable column rising to the cornice and which serve as reveals for the windows. The building is surmounted by a cast stone cornice. The 2nd floor windows are all in triple groups between the main pilasstedrs and have cut stone sills and are each topped by a small decorative cast stone plaque in the spandrel above. This is a fine design and is Green Bay's only commercial building in this style. 2017-NRHP District Nomination A former residence and rooming house was cleared from this corner site in 1927 to make way for the Cady Land Company to construct their Cady Barnard (now Frankenthal) Building in 1928. The building, designed by the architectural firm of Foeller, Schober, and Berners, is an excellent example of the Mediterranean Revival style, adapted for commercial use, and, as such, is unique in the City of Green Bay. As constructed, the Cady Barnard Building’s pilastered, brick façades had six bays facing Cherry Street to the north and three bays facing N. Adams Street to the west (126-130 N. Adams). Each pilaster has a two-story tall, spiral grooved column with Corinthian capital at either side which, together with their brick pilasters, rise to a cast stone cornice. These spiral columns serve as reveals for the first story windows which extend the full width of each bay. First story display windows have alternating flat and segmental arches above, each with a leaded glass transom and cut stone spandrels. A group of three identical windows is in the second story of each bay, each with a cut stone sill and a decorative stone plaque above their flat, soldier course brick lintel. The three windows are separated from one another by a narrow, grooved, column-like mullions (roughly the same width as the afore-mentioned spiral columns) with simple capital at the cornice and a pendant on the face of the stone arch above the first story windows. Entrance doors are situated with the storefront windows at the southernmost bay along N. Adams Street, the fourth and fifth bays along Cherry Street (as counted from the corner of N. Adams Street), and at the corner of the first bay, facing the intersection of N. Adams and Cherry streets. The building’s cast stone cornice is topped with a soldier course of bricks, interrupted by a single rosette centered above each second story window. The neighboring one-story building to the south at 124 N. Adams was demolished and replaced in 1991 with an addition to the Frankenthal Building. The two-story addition to the Frankenthal Building increased the number of bays facing N. Adams Street from three to four, and today the building’s address is listed as 124-130 N. Adams. The additional fourth bay is, in all practicality, indistinguishable from the original building in every detail (brick color, identical pilasters, grooved columns, decorative stone plaques, stone cornice, storefront windows, etc). Only a small butt seam at the molding above the cornice and a slightly lesser degree of weather-related patina give any hint that this fourth bay was not part of the original construction. The current south façade of the building is the south façade of the 1991 addition. This façade is clad in brick in an all-over running bond pattern, except for a soldier course at the top and another soldier course nine rows below that. Rectangular window openings with cast sills are placed regularly in both the first and second stories of this façade. The second story of the east façade, which has five rectangular window openings, is visible above 312 Cherry Street. In 1992 this façade received a stone veneer in place of an earlier stucco cladding. Relatively little of this façade is visible from public vantage points owing to the presence of the neighboring one story building at 312 Cherry Street. Despite the 1992 stone veneer, the 1991 addition, and the installation of energy efficient windows, the Frankenthal Building remains true to its original style. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Designer: Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Inc. Fire Insurance Map of Green Bay, Wisconsin. New York, 1957 (B) Date of construction: Brown County tax rolls. (C) Timothy Heggland et al., Green Bay Intensive Survey Final Report (Green Bay: Redevelopment Authority, 1988), 186. (D) Green Bay Press-Gazette. Green Bay, Wisconsin. 17 Nov 1991, page E-2. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |