| Additional Information: | 2015- APPEARANCE UNCHANGED. POWERHOUSE CONSTRUCTED c.1940, c.1942. KAUKAUNA UTILITIES CITY HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT ALSO FEATURES A SUBSTATION, SIGN, TAILRACE, HEADRACE FOREBAY DAMS, TWO-BAY TAINTER GATE, UNGATED OVERFLOW SPILLWAY, SINGLE-BAY TAINTER GATE FRAME, OGEE DAM. The interior floorplan consists of a large open room that houses two 3,300-horsepower, adjustable-blade, vertical-shaft Kaplan turbines manufactured by the S. Morgan Smith Company of Pennsylvania. The interior also features metal trusses that support the concrete roof slab, pressure tanks, pumps, drain valves, a small toilet room now used for storage, and a 35-ton overhead crane manufactured by Manning, Maxwell, and Moore, Inc. of Michigan. Aside from the addition of safety railings around the turbines and associated governors and a small, rectangular office space, the interior appears to remain intact
A 'site file' (Kaukauna Historic Properties) 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 Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History.
Photo code: FCA 5/12. Kaukauna Power and Electric Station (Thilmany I) is a rectangular, two-story brick powerhouse with a cement base and stone trim. The utilitarian building has complex geometric ornament and Moderne details suggesting streamlining. The windowless, horizontally-striated cement base contains the turbine chambers and carries a bollarded path on the downstream side of the superstructure. The building's sidewalls are divided into three bays by buttresses which rise from segmented bases to geometric caps which curve toward the upper wall. Stone rondels at the height of the buttress caps are positioned above subdividing pilaster strips. A tall window in each bay is flanked by two narrow windows topped by hooded vent panels. The metal-framed window of the sidewall center bay has a recessed brick surround. The flat roof is masked by a stone-trimmed parapet. Adjacent to the building is an array of transformers and transmission lines. |
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