Property Record
205 E JONES ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | EVAN O. JONES HOUSE |
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| Reference Number: | 3453 |
| Location (Address): | 205 E JONES ST |
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| County: | Columbia |
| City: | Cambria |
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| Year Built: | 1867 |
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| Survey Date: | 200420211974 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Cream Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The Evan O. Jones House is a two-story Italianate building of cream brick resting on a rock-faced ashlar basement. A hip-roofed cupola perches on the house's low-pitched hip roof. The house and the cupola are both embellished with scrolled brackets at the cornice. The front (south) facade is three bays wide with a central, segmental-arch entrance. The window openings are tall and most hold original four-over-four double-hung sash windows. The side facades are also three bays wide, and the window openings on the east-facing facade have been boarded. A long, one-story frame addition, predating 1925, with a hip roof and board-and batten siding is appended toward the rear of the side (east) facade. A one-story polygonal bay window appears on the west-facing facade. Evan O. Jones (1830-?) was born in Wales and immigrated to the United States in 1845 with his father, settling in the town of Courtland. In 1852 he went to California to work in the gold mines. He then opened a general store in Sacramento, California, but returned to Cambria in 1856. Jones then sold lumber and farm machinery in the village of Cambria. He served as town clerk, village president, justice of the peace, and police justice. He additionally served in the state assembly (1866-67) and the state senate (1873-74). His brother was the distinguished architect David R. Jones who had opened his first architectural office in Cambria in 1856, and later relocated to Madison. Previously surveyed in 1974. Note: the one-story frame addition that is attached to the building's east-facing facade and was visible in the earliest of the survey photos shown here was later substantially lengthened and it is still extant in this form in 2021. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Cambria-Friesland Historical Society. The Architecture of Cambria, Wisconsin. Cambria: 1994, entry number 24. Cambria Sesquicentennial publication.. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |