Property Record
345 S MONROE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Raphael Soquet House |
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| Other Name: | Bay Title & Abstract, Inc. |
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| Reference Number: | 2125 |
| Location (Address): | 345 S MONROE |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1897 |
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| Survey Date: | 20082022 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
| Architect: | Barber, George F. |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. Photo code #3: 75BR-12/17 This is a George Barber mail-order house from Knoxville TN it is illustrated as Design #33 in Barber's The Cottage Souvenir #2. p. 72. Highly elaborate example in style sometimes called "Steamboat Gothic". South facing ell has a canted first floor with panels of vertical tongue and groove board siding above and below the windows. The second floor of this ell is an elaborate open porch with turned posts and balusters, solid corner brackets, and a wood shingle sided gable end above partially hidden by the highly decorated gable ornament with floral motif above the curved collarbeam below; a motif found in all gable ends of the house. The highly elaborate front porch roof covers the full width of the front facing ell, although the floor area below is smaller than the roof. Front porch roof is supported by turned colonettes which have twisted fluting on the canted balusters. The gablet on the porch has a freize with circular motifs and the gable end is sided in tongue and groove boards. The porch colonettes are doubled by engaged colonettes on t he main facade. A turned colonette supports a massive fan shaped bracket above supporting the polygonal oriel above with its superb circular openings and flanking side porches. There is an overshot balcony above this oriel with another small porch. The exuberant Queen Anne style Soquet house is a later example which demonstrates the degree of elaboration which was occasionally lavished on a house of an otherwise standard size and plan. The Soquet house has the hip roofed main block and the gabled roofed two story tall ells on the main and side facades typical of the vast majority of Green Bay's Queen Anne style houses. Here, however, the second floors of the ells become open porches of elaborate design creating an almost playful mood, which is heightened by the extensive use of turned columns and by the variageted surface treatments. The importance of this house in enhanced by its near original condition and high degree of [historic material]. #650: Small, two story gable roof carriage house behind is original. Raphael Soquet was a druggist and the house remained in his family until 1989. Only other known example of Barber's design #33 in Wisconsin is the Edward Hammer House in Hillsboro, Vernon County (AHI #72238). Determination of Eligibility completed for this property in September 2008. Green Bay Intensive Survey Phases 2, 3 & 4 |
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| Bibliographic References: | Barber, George F. The Cottage Souvenir No. 2: A Repository of Artistic Cottage Architecture and Miscellaneous Designs. Reprinted by American Life Foundation and Study Institute, 1982, pg. 72, design #33. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |