Property Record
102 N DICKINSON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | D.D. Warner Bicycle Factory |
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| Other Name: | Office and Plant #1, Trachte Bros. |
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| Reference Number: | 78080 |
| Location (Address): | 102 N DICKINSON ST |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1895 |
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| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | industrial bldg/manufacturing facility |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Metal |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Map code is 0709-131-0314-2. The Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood: A Walking Tour: "The earliest portions of this factory complex were built in 1895 to house the bicycle factory of D. D. Warner, which in 1895 employed 60 men and manufactured 5,000 bicycles. By 1897, however, the buildings housed a foundry. This usage continued until 1914, when George and Arthur Trachte bought it to house their tinsmithing and furnace repair shop. By 1919, the Trachte brother's Dickinson Street factory was being used to fabricate the first of the simple steel buildings for which they are now best known. These buildings varied greatly in size, but all of them were formed of ribbed steel panels that were bolted to an inner steel framework. They were low in cost, fireproof, easily expandable, and easily taken apart. By the 1930s, Trachte Bros. Company had become a well-known name in the prefabricated building business, a position is still holds today in its present location in Sun Prairie. Examples of older Trachte Company buildings can still be found throughout Madiosn, including several arched-roofed, metal paneled garages in Tenney-Lapham. The finest and largest concentration of Trachte buildings, though, is this factory complex, which extends along E. Mifflin Street on both sides of Dickinson Street." |
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| Bibliographic References: | City directory. Wisconsin State Journal 12/31/1895. The Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood: A Walking Tour, 1997, Madison Landmarks Commission. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |