Packers Office Building

The Packers moved into the south side of this building at 349 S. Washington St. in 1949 and remained there until a new administration building was completed next to what is now Lambeau Field in 1963. Curly Lambeau was the first coach to have his office here, in his final season with the Packers, and Vince Lombardi was the last, working here during his first four seasons as coach. The ticket office occupied the front part of the first floor, while coaches worked at different times in either the basement or on the second floor. When Lombardi took charge in 1959, he remodeled the interior and moved into an office in the back of the first floor, and the mood in the building changed drastically. Here quarterback Bart Starr had his famous epiphany soon after first meeting Lombardi; during a break in a meeting, he rushed to a pay phone and called his wife Cherry in Alabama to say, "Honey, were going to begin to win." Constructed in 1914, the building had earlier been home to the Marvin Store through the 1930s, when it sold groceries and general merchandise.

Green Bay, Wisconsin · United States