Northwestern Engraving

This building sits in the Washington Street Historic District on Doty Island.  Built around 1930, this was part of an effort instigated by the Menasha Wooden Ware to create a business district in what they termed, the “English style of architecture,” to optimize use of the US 41 corridor which was then running down Washington Street and into Menasha. The Brin Building completed in 1928 was another part of this initiative but the rest of the business district was never realized.  Jefferson Elementary School is another example of this Tudor/Elizabethan Revival movement of architecture, distinguished by its fine half-timbering, slate roof, and leaded windows.  This ad is taken from the 1949 Menasha High yearbook, The Nicolet.