Property Record
BRIDGEWATER AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Hannah M. Rutledge Home for the Aged |
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| Other Name: | Rutledge Home |
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| Reference Number: | 3172 |
| Location (Address): | BRIDGEWATER AVE |
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| County: | Chippewa |
| City: | Chippewa Falls |
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| Year Built: | 1913 |
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| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | nursing home/sanitarium |
| Architectural Style: | English Revival Styles |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | G. H. Johnson |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Multiple hip-roofed dormers, gabled parapet end with brick buttresses and two-story, three-sided bay windows with strap-like stone articulation; multiple octagonal one and two stage cupolas. Walled entrance courtyard; gabled entrance bay with third story oriel window; arched lower story front facade windows. Jacobean tower on front. Constructed under the direction of a wealthy local lumberman, Edward Rutledge, as a memorial to his wife Hannah and endowed by him for the sum of $400,000 (A), the Hannah M. Rutledge designed by the prominent St. Paul architect G. H. Johnson in 1910 (B) exhibits multiple formations and elements such as gable ends rising above the roof, large and small cupolas, roof dormers, wings extending irregularly in the general shape of an H and a brick walled entrance courtyard, a projecting multi-sided three-story bay at the rear combined to achieve the irregular picturesque character of the Elizabethan style structures known as the Jacobean. Constructed of characteristic Jacobean materials -- brick walls and white stone window mullions, window lintels and copings, the Rutledge Home has a gabled entrance bay window, second story oriel window. Affected by very few additions or alterations over the years, the architectureally significant Hannah M. Rutledge Home foe the Aged is an exceptional example of Elizabethan architecture as well as excellent example of architecture designed for the purpose of social welfare. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Chippewa County, Wisconsin Past and Present, Vol. 1 (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1913), pp. 297-298. (B) Minutes of Rutledge Charity Association, Chippewa Falls, WI. (C) Chippewa Herald-Telegram, 3 August 1971. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |