Property Record
30 N WISCONSIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Hunsbusher Blacksmith Shop |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 225701 |
| Location (Address): | 30 N WISCONSIN ST |
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| County: | Walworth |
| City: | Darien |
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| Year Built: | 1909 |
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| Survey Date: | 2013 |
| Historic Use: | blacksmith shop |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Downtown Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/4/2013 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 5/24/2013 |
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| Additional Information: | 2012- "This one-story building has a facing of dark red brick on the main elevation and brown brick side walls. It has a plain cornice over a row of brick corbelling. A "ghost" sign reading" ... Hunsbusher Shoeing & Repairing" is still visible under the corbelling. The storefront consists of two segmentally arched openings flanking a large rectangular central opening. The segmentally arched openings are covered with plywood, while the central entrance is covered with a modem vinyl garage door. There is a large mid-twentieth century addition attached to the rear elevation. The interior of the building was viewed and is in poor condition. In the original blacksmith shop, there are only exposed brick walls, a concrete floor, and two intact period windows behind the plywood covering seen on the exterior. Hunsbusher founded his blacksmith shop in the nineteenth century and historic photos show a building for this business on this site. It was burned in 1909, then according to tax rolls, quickly rebuilt into the present building. It was a long-time blacksmith shop, then repair shop." -"Request for SHPO Comment and Consultation on a Federal Undertaking", Prepared by Carol Lohry Cartwright, Historic Resources Consultant, (2012). |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |