| Additional Information: | 1982: Considered briefly for NRHP. This unusual vernacular brick front end gable house with symmetrical façade. Early iron fence in front yard. Veranda has been removed, as damaged wall indicates. Two wall dormers with gables.
2017 survey information: Rising two stories, this front-gabled, (painted red) brick-constructed house includes a central door with a classically derived, wooden surround comprised of pilasters, denticulated trim, as well as a modestly raised hood. Regularly arranged windows are located along both floors, with the gabled peak including a square vent. Less the front picture window, openings throughout the home are largely tall-and-narrow examples, most with replacement sash or single panes; some have also been downsized. Stone sills and soldier brick headers accent the first-floor windows, while the upper-floor openings have only brick headers. A single, tall-and-narrow wall dormer breaks through the roofline on both the north and south elevations; each carries a sash window and modest shinglework peak trim. Sanborn maps indicate that the structure originally featured a porch around all four sides; indeed markings left from the porch removal remain evident on the brickwork.
Deed information indicates that when built between 1898 and 1899, the multi-unit residence was owned by Rosetta A. Young, the daughter of Gilman G. Young, an Ashland grocer who operated T.G. Young & Co., with his son Theodore. Rosetta married in 1899 to Charles W. Crapp, a railroad fireman. Although the Crapps never resided in the subject structure, city directories do confirm that Rosetta’s father Gilman and his second wife Marie lived here from 1899 through at least 1905. As well, the 1900 census indicates that the Gilmans were renting there, along with the Solomon Lindstrom family; hence, the building is believed to have served as a non-owner-occupied duplex from the beginning. Rosetta and her husband sold the property to Henry O. Robinson in 1918 for $2,300 and Rosetta died the following year. Robinson, a retired flour mill engineer, lived in one of the units with his wife Ella (who died in 1921) until his death in 1927. Boilermaker George Bayliss and his wife Lillian were the next owners; they remained in the house through at least 1971. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for 2017 survey report:
Sanborn-Perris Fire Insurance Map of Ashland, Wis., 1901, 1909.
Mary E. Nicol, New York City (by her attorney Frederick Prentice) to Rosetta A. Young, WD (13 July 1898), 58/419, #8827a; Rosetta A. Young Crapp and Charles Crapp to Henry O. Robinson, WD (9 July 1918), 116/381, #56485; Ashland City Directory, Various dates reviewed between 1899 and 1971; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940; Death dates for Rosetta Young, as well as Henry O. and Ella Robinson were gleaned from “U.S., Find-A-Grave Index, 1600s-Current,”Accessed June 2017. |
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