Property Record
236 W 2ND ST
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Reference Number: | 47947 |
| Location (Address): | 236 W 2ND ST |
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| County: | St. Croix |
| City: | New Richmond |
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| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Survey Date: | 19832018 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This 2 story clapboard home has a large side and rear addition. The basic plan is rectangular. Fishscales are in the gables, which have shingled returns. Foundation is rock faced and there is a stoop porch. Some windows rae 4/1. The gable also has small brackets and dentils and diamond shaped wood trim. Frieze is plain. Detailing is Colonial Revival. The gable roof has side wall gable dormers. Front window has lost its frame. A box cornice is here, as are endboards. Additions have detracted from the integrity of this residence, although much remains. The carriage house/garage is a one story building with clapboard exterior fabric and a rectangular plan. The hip roof has a hip roof dormer. The door and garage door have an entablature head. There are endboards and a plain frieze under the eave. See SC 35-6 for photo. Stephen Boardman is the brother of Grant Boardman (see SC20-7). He was from Boardman, Wisconisn which wsa named for his family. Stephen had a common school education and a course at St. Paul Business College in st. Paul, Minnesotas and courses at Northern Indiana Normal School in Valparaiso, Indiana. He was a bookkeeper at the New Richmond Roller Mills for 7 years. Then he was a bookkeeper at the Boardman Roller Mills for 5 years. (His father Clinton built a flour, lumber and saw mill in Boardman (along with S.L. Beebe). Clinto retired in 1882 after selling the business to Johnston Brothers, see Wm Johnston residences SC29-34 and SC20-9. He died in 1887. Clinton's wife Margaret was from Quebec, Canada.) When the New Richmond Roller Mills were incorporated by McNally's, Glover and Mosher (see section on People & SC 31-8), Stephen Boardman was elected it sfirst secretary. He still had this position in 1909. Boardman married Adelia H. Lavette of Vermont in 1891. In 1906 he bought a lot and built a home on "Colorado Stret." He had 5 children, all at home in 1909. The oldest daughter, Amy, is about 16 years old and twin boys are a year younger. A 3 & 5 year old are also here. Boardman is a Republican and member of the Congregational Church. This home was one he lived in pre-tornado (1899). It was lifted off its foundation then. The house is interesting for its association with the first secretary of the modern roller mioll operation. But since the Mills themselves exist (in altered form) and this is not the home Boardman lived in then, it has no historical significance. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |