HISTORIC PHOTO
Blizzard-like conditions struck Kenosha in February 1936. This picture was taken on Highway 41, north of Highway 43, before it became a four-lane super highway.
The M.H. Petit Malting Co. facility caught fire on St. Patricks Day 1914 and burned for several days. This view is from the St. James Church on the southwest corner of Sheridan Road and 58th Street looking to the northeast. The company never rebuilt.
A spring snowstorm coats the Gilbert Simmons Library on March 20, 1940. This is the south side of the building.
This picture of a railroad station in Pleasant Prairie was taken about six weeks before the passing of the Last Train on May 31, 1939. This was a short stop, arriving at 10:35 a.m. and leaving at 10:55. This station had been closed for several months before this date. One of the benches was given to the daughter of Thomas Yates, who was the agent at this station for many years.
This is a view of Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library from Park Avenue. The library, the first public building in the city Park district, was named after Zalmon G. Simmons deceased son. The photograph was taken between 1900 and 1914.
This is a portrait of Zalmon G. Simmons, who was the president of the First National Bank in Kenosha and owned the Simmons Manufacturing Co., best known for producing the Beautyrest mattress. He served as the mayor of Kenosha from 1884 to 1886 and in the Wisconsin State Assembly for Kenosha in 1865.
The smokestack of the Central High School (now Reuther Central High School and Harborside Academy) heating plant was 135 feet high with a diameter of 15 feet at the base and 6 feet at the top. This view is from just east of Sheridan Road looking west on 58th Street. The photograph was taken on May 19, 1937.
C.E. Remer drives a horse and carriage. He was a director of the Merchants & Savings Bank in Kenosha, and was also a member of the Business Mens Club, which incorporated in 1883. The group advocated literature, art and promoted business interests in Kenosha County.
S.C. Neumann is seen driving from the northeast tee on a golf course that existed in the late 1800s on what is now the Allendale neighborhood.
A worker mixes molten metal in the die casting department at the Nash Motors plant, circa 1952.
MacWhyte Co. engineer William A. Russell designs a wire rope sometime in the 1940s.
This is a portrait of Mrs. M.H. Pettit. The Pettit family owned the M.H. Pettit Malting Co. The malt house existed in the 5700 block of Eighth Avenue until 1914, when the structure burned down.
The Rowe School, located at Chicago Street and Prairie Avenue, now Eighth Avenue and 60th Street respectively, was built in the 1850s. It was a private university, run by Kenosha educator and banker Nicholas A. Rowe.
Deep snow is seen in what appears to be a residential area in a photograph taken by Louis Milton Thiers between 1880 and 1914.
A factory worker moves sand cast molds at Nash Motors in June of 1952.
The MacWhyte Girls Bowling League poses for a photograph during a banquet on May 3, 1943.
Materials are piled outside the Simmons Manufacturing Co. plant along the lakefront in this photo taken in 1898.
The N.R. Allens Sons Co. plant was photographed in the winter of 1902. The view is looking northwest across the Pike Creek from downtown Kenosha. The bridge, located on the bottom right, is the old Main Street, now Sixth Avenue. The tannery was located where the Kenosha Municipal Building now stands.
Workers assemble track lines in the Heat Treating Department of Nash Motors Kenosha plant during the 1950s.
The second iteration of the YMCA was built in 1897 at the corner of Main and South (Sixth Avenue and 59th Street), where Friendship Park is today. In 1913, the building was sold to Fred Larson to convert into retail space and was then known as the Regnar Building.
The YMCA boasted a bowling alley when it was located at Main and South (Sixth Avenue and 59th Street), where Friendship Park is today. The YMCA was built in 1897 through subscriptions headed by Frederick Newell and his family. Zalmon Simmons furnished the interior.
This photo, circa 1907, shows Pike Creek from Burlington Road (Washington Road).
This is a view from the Allen Tannery chimney looking south, taken between 1880 and 1914. The Allen Tannery was located where the Kenosha Municipal Building now stands.
The parlor at the home of Zalmon G. Simmons is shown here. The Simmons home was located on the southeast corner of Congress and Prairie (10th Avenue and 60th Street), where The First United Methodist Church stands today.
The library of the Mrs. Martin residence. Mary A. Martin was the wife of Judge Edward Martin, and their house was located on the east side of Seventh Avenue (Park Avenue) south of Library Park, where two apartment buildings across from the hospital parking ramp stand today.
This is a view of downtown Kenosha looking northwest from the Simmons Manufacturing Co., taken between 1890 and 1899.
Charles Huyck Bain, the son of Edward Bain, center, his sister, Carrie Bain, right, and a young girl pose for a photograph at Bonnie Hame. Bonnie Hame was the summer home of Edward Bain and his family. The home was built in the 1870s near 52nd Street and 30th Avenue. The photo was taken between 1870 and 1899.
An employee works on making wire rope at the MacWhyte Company factory in the 1980s.
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