CR Meyer history

Completed in 1891, it was designed by popular local architect William Waters, the same man who designed the Oshkosh Opera House.

Charles Rudolph (C.R.) Meyer, a German immigrant, starts his own masonry business in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that will grow to employ 12 men by 1900.

In 1908, he built a mansion for the lumber baron and banker Edgar P. Sawyer, which later became the Oshkosh Public Museum.

In 1912, he incorporated the business as C.R. Meyer and Sons Company.

Fred W. Pinkerton began his career as a City Engineer in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the 1920s.

In 1928, CR Meyer and Sons Co. inadvertently became a general contractor while building the Bergstrom Paper Mill in downtown Neenah, Wisconsin.

C.R. retired from the company he founded in 1932 and handed his business down to his sons.

As the husband of Marjorie Meyer, the only child of Harry D. Meyer and his wife Hazel, Fred started at C.R. Meyer and Sons Co. in 1937 as a common timekeeper.

Harry was named President in 1939 when his brother Edward exited the family business to start his own commercial construction enterprise.

Following a brief recession after the war ended in 1945, the economy roared during the postwar years and C.R. Meyer benefited greatly from a sustained building boom.

Fred graduated from UW-Madison in 1962 with a degree in Economics and began his career at C.R. Meyer and Sons Co. the same year.

He went on to assume increasing sales and leadership responsibilities and was named President in 1963.

Curwood of New London was a successful meat and cheese packager even before being acquired by Minnesota-based Bemis in 1965.

He was responsible for hiring the firm's first architect, Cliff Rosen, circa 1975.

When Curwood prepared to expand in 1979, they collaborated with CR Meyer and Sons Co. to design and build the company's new plant in Oshkosh.

Wisconsin Tissue Mills of Menasha, Wisconsin, contracted with CR Meyer and Sons Co. in 1982 to construct a new machine room and erect its new 65,000-ton annual capacity Beloit paper machine (PM#3) and Yankee dryer.

He left the company briefly and returned in 1983 to begin a decades-long tenure where he directed the rapid expansion of seven field offices across the United States.

After graduating from college as a Civil Engineer, Darren joined the company as a Project Engineer in 1986.

In 1987, the Curwood general offices and research labs would be just one of eight buildings and additions eventually built at the Oshkosh Curwood campus by CR Meyer and Sons Co.

Having outgrown their downtown offices, in 1989 C.R. Meyer converted a former airplane manufacturing building and hangar to suit the needs of a construction company.

Pinkerton became chief executive officer in 1997 and turned over the presidency to Phillip J. Martini, who had served as vice-president for more than ten years.

A yard was added in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and in 2002 an office was opened in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

"Scrapbook: C.R. Meyer and Sons Company," C.R. Meyer and Sons Company , 2003.

The work is the most recent upgrade to the RAFP since its humble beginnings in 2005.

The C.R. Meyer and Sons Co. satellite offices in operation today are Rhinelander, WI; Escanaba, MI; Tulsa, OK; Chester, PA; Muskegon, MI; Coleraine, MN; Byron, GA; and Green Bay, WI. Phil was named CEO of C.R. Meyer and Sons Co. in 2011.

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