302 GEORGE ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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302 GEORGE ST

Architecture and History Inventory
302 GEORGE ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Commercial House Hotel
Other Name:COLONIAL APTS
Contributing:
Reference Number:1862
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):302 GEORGE ST
County:Brown
City:De Pere
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1868
Additions: 1936 1885
Survey Date:20012017
Historic Use:hotel/motel
Architectural Style:Second Empire
Structural System:
Wall Material:Stucco
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Demolished?:No
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NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name:Not listed
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NOTES
Additional Information:The site of the building was the first permanent Jesuit mission on the Fox River. The mission was founded my Claude Allouez in 1671, and was burned by Native Americans in 1687. It reopened in 1717. Building was originally a side gable form clad with clapboard. Given a mansard roof in 1885. Turned into apartments and clad with stucco in 1936.

2017: No immediately apparent exterior alterations since last surveyed.
Bibliographic References:DEPERE JOURNAL 3/23/1995. DePere News 5/16/1885 p. 1, 7/4/1885 p. 1, 10/31/1885 p. 1. Architecture/History Survey. September 2000. Carol Cartwright, Jennifer R. Harvey, and Marisa Kosobucki for the Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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