Fox River Paper Company Historic District | |
Location | 405-406, 415 S. Olde Oneida St., Appleton, Wisconsin |
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Coordinates | 44°15′31″N 88°24′18″W / 44.25861°N 88.40500°W |
Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
Built | 1883 | -1915
Architect | E.D. Jones |
Architectural style | Romanesque and Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 90000639[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 19, 1990 |
The Fox River Paper Company Historic District, now known as the Historic Fox River Mills, is a complex of paper mill buildings in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, built from 1883 to 1915.[2] The historic district includes the Romanesque-styled Ravine/Rag Mills,[3] the Italianate-styled Lincoln Mill which originally milled flour,[4] and the Italianate-styled Fox River Mill.[5] The site is now used as apartments but also retains a functioning hydroelectric canal and privately owned generating station.[6] This hydroelectric infrastructure continues a tradition of electricity from water power dating from the 1880s which makes the Lower Fox River the oldest hydroelectric generation region in the United States.[7]
With a power plant placed in operation at Appleton, Wisconsin in 1882, hydroelectric power production has had a longer history in the Lower Fox River area than anywhere else in the country.