N6231 STATE HIGHWAY 26 | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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N6231 STATE HIGHWAY 26

Architecture and History Inventory
N6231 STATE HIGHWAY 26 | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:T. Kirk and Lydia Gillett Farmstead
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Reference Number:226036
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):N6231 STATE HIGHWAY 26
County:Fond du Lac
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Township/Village:Springvale
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1880
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Survey Date:2013
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:Other Vernacular
Structural System:
Wall Material:Asbestos
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Other Buildings On Site:Y
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 hosse is sheathed in asbestos siding with wooden shingles in the gables. The property includes a basement barn (AHI #226037).

T. Kirk Gillett purchased this 160-acre parcel in 1867. Gillett was born in 1835 in New York State and moved to Wisconsin in 1854. He married Lydia Cowden five years later. Gillett served as the Town of Springvale chair for four one-year terms in the 1870s and was defeated in 1880 in a run for the Wisconsin State Senate. He retired to the Village of Rosendale in circa 1900 and died in 1904; Lydia followed in 1906. The farm remained in the Gillett family into the 1960s.
Bibliographic References:“Architecture and History Survey: STH 26” WHS project number 14-0245/FD. October 2013. Prepared by Heritage Research Ltd.Plats, Census, "History of Fond du Lac County" (1880), pg. 927.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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