On the opposite side of this doorway, there is a corresponding 1918 datestone, indicating when the building was built.
This one is telling us the year the Jersild Knitting Company was founded, without coming out and saying so. You're just supposed to know that somehow.
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On Doty Island in Neenah, Wisconsin, on May 22nd, 2024, was the former Jersild Knitting Co. building (built in 1918), nowadays an office building, on the east side of North Commercial Street (Wisconsin Highway 114), south of High Street.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Doty Island (2293115)
• Neenah (7014194)
• Winnebago (county) (2002363)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• date stones (300374978)
• doorways (300002767)
• engraving (action) (300053829)
• establishment (action or condition) (300393212)
• office buildings (300007043)
• red brick (material) (300444202)
• repurposing (300417716)
• textile mills (300006321)
Wikidata items:
• 22 May 2024 (Q69307176)
• 1900 (Q2034)
• 1910s in architecture (Q11185482)
• 1918 in architecture (Q2811257)
• Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI Combined Statistical Area (Q126130444)
• Doty Island (Q5299524)
• Fox Cities (Q5476644)
• Fox Valley (Q126146595)
• May 22 (Q2581)
• May 2024 (Q61312957)
• Treaty with the Menominee, 1831 (Q7837292)
• Wisconsin Highway 114 (Q839409)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Clothing factories (sh85027170)
• Office buildings—Wisconsin (sh85094178)
