Property Record
801 MACARTHUR AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Harold B. and Annie Warner House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 4352 |
| Location (Address): | 801 MACARTHUR AVE |
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| County: | Ashland |
| City: | Ashland |
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| Year Built: | 1893 |
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| Survey Date: | 19822012 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Shingle Style |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Chapple and MacArthur Avenues Residential Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/27/2014 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 8/23/2013 |
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| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION: Another well preserved Late Picturesque style house that features a clapboard first floor and shingled second and third floors in a Queen Anne manner. This style is expressed more blatently in the steeply pitched and highly picturesque roofline that features a central steep hip gable roof that parallels the front elevation and is marked by a roof dormer over a covered entry marked by a pediment and an arch much like 810 MacArthur avenue (24-10) in the district nearby. A very steep and tall flared and shingled gabled projection rises taller than any other part of the house on the front elevation. Tall and narrow 2/2 original sash windows are intact. A small gabled extension is at rear on the NW side where ther is also a polygonal bay window. House stands very tall and appears monumental by virtue of its corner lot. SIGNIFICANCE: This house is significant for its architectural integrity and its pivotal role in the proposed district as a superb example of vernaacular Late Picturesque style residential architecture that relates very well to other similarly dated and equally large houses of this prestigious Ashland neighborhood. Few houses match the house's integrity and no others are like it in design. Harold B. Warner is identified as a bookkeeper in the 1893 city directory. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Tax rolls indicate that the house was built between 1892 and 1893. the lot was purchased by Harold B. Warner in August of 1892 (45/540, #188) and, as of the 1893 city directory, the Warners were identified as living in the home. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |