Property Record
18TH ST AND R.R. TRACKS
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Cheese Row |
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| Other Name: | Cheese Row |
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| Reference Number: | 90249 |
| Location (Address): | 18TH ST AND R.R. TRACKS |
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| County: | Green |
| City: | Monroe |
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| Survey Date: | 1979 |
| Historic Use: | dairy processing facility |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' 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, State Historic Preservation Office. Sometimes referred to as "Cheese Lane" (rather that Cheese Row), this stretch of cheese related buildings was important to the development of Monroe, which served as the center of foreign-type cheese in the United States between 1875 and 1925. A number of properties are within "Cheese Row." Below is a very partial list of buildings on "Cheese Row." --Triangle Cheese Building, 1717 14th Ave. J.S. Hoffman Co. built this building for Triangle Cheese, one of their subsidiaries, in the 1930s. --Regez Cheese Co., 1315 18th St. This building was built in 1910 (with additions in 1950) by one of the major pioneer cheese dealers in Monroe, Jacob Regez. The business has been run by a succession of his children and grandchildren since. --Marty Building, 1721 15th Ave. This is an interesting early 20th century example of industrial architecture, originally serving as a factory and later as a storage facility. The building is associated with Carl Marty Sr., who was a prominent "cheese man" along with Jacob Gempler Jr. who held the same distinction. The two jointly owned Gempler-Marty Co. cheese factory |
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| Bibliographic References: | Hamilton, STORY OF MONROE, p. 112, 118, 120. Emily Odell, SWISS CHEESE INDUSTRY, p. 36, 40. City Assessors Records, Monroe, WI. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |