Property Record
1409 ELLIS AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | WAKEFIELD HALL |
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| Reference Number: | 4346 |
| Location (Address): | 1409 ELLIS AVE |
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| County: | Ashland |
| City: | Ashland |
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| Year Built: | 1940 |
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| Survey Date: | 1982 |
| Historic Use: | library |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | THOMAS J. SHEFCHIK |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Wakefield Hall |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/4/1995 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/20/1995 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. Long, low symmetrical red brick building in Georgian Revival style that feartures tall rectangular windows on the ground level and five pedimented roof dormers projecting from the pedimented roof dormers projecting from the gable roof. Building is very similar in style to a Georgian revival house on 822 Chapple Avenue (22-31). |
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| Bibliographic References: | Permit dated 24 July 1940; est. cost, $40,000. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |