| Additional Information: | Additional map codes are: FCS 8/34. Additional photo codes are: FCS 8/34.
FCS 8/34 - VALMET BUILDING 4 - is a two-story utilitrian industrial building, a brick rectangle with shouldered, parapetted gables trimmed with tile, and a wooden-framed gabled clerestory. An inverted T-shaped opening in the south, landward endwall has been reduced with corrugated metal to fit a square metal door. Three square dock doors with metal beam lintels in the east sidewall are covered with metal panelling, as are the upper sash of three segmental-arched windows in the wall. A wooden door at right fills the only opening in the upper sidewall. The midline of the walls is punctuated by the plates and bolts of internal tie rods.
Fox River Valley Industrial Survey
The Appleton Machine Company was established in 1890 with a small, two-story brick production shed, located at 618 South Olde Oneida Street in Appleton, that served as foundry. The company was formed out of the previous Crosby Ketchum Blacksmith Shop, which had existed on the site dating back to 1857. There were other buildings on the site. However, it appears that these are no longer extant. The foundry was expanded in 1911 with steel frame brick additions to the south, and it appears that more brick additions were created to the south from the 1920s through the 1940s, replacing the non-extant wood frame buildings of the machine company. A large contemporary style red brick addition was completed along the south side of the building in 1948.
The company’s history closely followed the development of the large paper making industry surrounding it, making machinery and replacement parts for paper finishing, stock preparation, and grinding. During World War II, the company also produced torpedo warheads for the war effort. The Appleton Machine Company went out of business in the late 1950s, and the property is now owned by the Valmet Paper Company.
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.
2021: This Astylistic Utilitarian industrial building was initially constructed in 1890, with further additions in 1911, 1920, and 1940. The oldest portion of the structure is located on the eastern elevation, consisting of a gable-roofed building constructed of brick, with a monitor at the ridgeline whose windows have been filled in. A two-story, flat roofed section in the center of the building mass is clad in red brick, and features continuous bands of glass block windows and cast stone sills that wrap around the building. The building’s primary entrance is located beneath a metal awning on the southern elevation, in a one-story addition featuring a band of glass block windows with cast stone sill, wide metal cornice and rounded corners. Th western portion of the building features a raised, rough-cut concrete block foundation. Walls above are clad in corrugated metal siding with no fenestration, flat roof, and plain metal cornice band. A secondary entrance is located in the center of this façade. |
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