222-224 N ADAMS ST

222-224 N ADAMS ST

Brown

Green Bay

1870

1935

1985,2017

social recreational/fraternal hall

Commercial Vernacular

Unknown

Brick

Foeller, Schober, and Berners

No

Current facade is an Art Deco remodeling of the much older building whose bricked-in segmental arched windows with double header coursed heads and cut stone sills are still visible on the south facade facade. Later facade is distinguished by vertical inset brick strips forming a bay to the right of the entrance door which rises to the cornice and by the small polygonal cast stone hood above the window above the entrance door with the typical zig-zag motif; first floor has been altered.

The later front facade was done by the firm of Foeller, Schober and Berners in 1935. This firm also did most of the work for the Odd Fellows Home in Green Bay as well.

2017-NRHP District Nomination
As originally constructed, this two-story, brick building had a gothic revival façade very similar to that on the extant 1873-built 406-408 Dousman Street located in the Broadway-Dousman National Register Historic District on Green Bay’s west side. The Odd Fellows purchased this building in 1898. The new owners added a third story, also in the gothic revival style and a near-match of the second story, in the spring and summer of 1900. The south façade of the building, which overlooks the neighboring two-story Lucia Building at 218-220 N. Adams, retains bricked-in segmental arched windows with double header coursed heads and cut stone sills at the third story, but these do not possess the same gothic revival character of the windows (pointed arches) that were once on the front façade of the building.

The current Art Deco façade was designed in 1935 by the architectural firm of Foeller, Schober, and Berners. The ground floor had storefront windows with two recessed storefront entrances. A third entrance beneath a metal canopy is at far left. Limestone flanks the sides of the left-most entrance, extends beneath the storefront windows, and clads the right corner of the building’s first story. The façade has no cornice, terminating instead with simple metal coping.

The upper stories of the building are clad entirely in brick. The right edge of the façade, above the first story limestone corner, and the left portion of the façade, above the left-most entrance and its surrounding limestone, rise as a continuous plane, flush with the first story, to the metal coping at the top of the façade. The brick façade directly above the storefront windows is inset slightly from these outer portions, and the plane containing the second and third story windows is inset even further, framed by three vertical courses of increasingly inset bricks at the left and right as well as a sloping, horizontal soldier course located seven courses beneath the second story window sills.

There are three windows in the second and third stories, arranged symmetrically within the inset plane of bricks. Each window opening at the second story is roughly square, and divided into three parts with a full-width tile panel in the upper third and a pair of half-width window panes in the remaining bottom portion above stone sills. Narrower, rectangular window openings in the third story are similarly arranged, with a full-width panel in the upper third over a pair of half-width panes in the remaining bottom portion above stone sills. A horizontal series of small, plain, square, limestone tiles adorn this inset portion of the façade approximately seventeen courses below the bottom of the metal coping.

In the second story, centered above the left-most entrance, is a narrow rectangular window opening with a stone sill and a polygonal cast stone hood featuring a zig-zag Art Deco motif. A third story opening centered above the window below has a ventilation louvre with a decorative metal cover consisting of an ‘x’ in a square at top and bottom with wavy bars extending vertically at center.

This building’s Art Deco façade retains a high degree of integrity despite some later alterations at the first floor and replacement of windows at the second and third stories. This is a good example of Foeller, Schober, and Berners’ work in updating older buildings with newer façades.

(A) Date of construction, designer: Berners-Schober Assoc., Inc. Archives Stick No. #651. (B) Green Bay Gazette. Green Bay, Wisconsin. 06 Oct 1898, page 5. (C) Green Bay Gazette. Green Bay, Wisconsin. 11 Jan 1900, page 5. (D) Green Bay Gazette. Green Bay, Wisconsin. 10 Aug 1900, page 5.

Green Bay Downtown Historic District

May 13, 2019

Feb 16, 2018

Yes