Western Elevator Company, 507 North Appleton Street, Appleton, Outagamie County, WI
Summary
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
Tags
Date
1901
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Donahoe, Jamie, transmitter
Location
Appleton (Wis.), 44.26583, -88.40731
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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