Western Elevator Company, 507 North Appleton Street, Appleton, Outagamie County, WI

Significance: The Western Elevator Company embodies the distinctive characteristics of the "crib" period of storage elevator construction, and retains much of its original operating mechanism. It is also the single remaining example of this unique type of architecture and construction in a city that was the center of Outagamie County's once-thriving wheat industry.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N3

Survey number: HAER WI-62

Building/structure dates: after 1989 Demolished

Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: after. 1920- before. 1929 Subsequent Work

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