Property Record
4025 PARK RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Beyer's Log Cabins |
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| Other Name: | Edge of the Park Cottages |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 49655 |
| Location (Address): | 4025 PARK RD |
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| County: | Door |
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| Township/Village: | Gibraltar |
| Unincorporated Community: | Fish Creek |
| Town: | 31 |
| Range: | 27 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 29 |
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| Survey Date: | 1992 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Wood |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | #650: 41/6-15. Historical Background These cottages were originally known as "Beyers Log Cabins." An early postcard advertising the complex says "Beyers Log Cabins; equipped with running water, electric lights." Cabins 1 through 6 are the originals. They had outdoor toilets. Behind them were open fields. Other toilets and the showers were where the shop is located now. Cabins 7/8 and 7/10 were built after the Beyers' ownership, perhaps under the Frye's in the 1950s. Bernice and Robert Lent bought the property circa 1969. They moved cottage 11 from across the street when the Andersons sold their cagin complex [not extant]. Historical Significance They are a good local example of the simple, affordable summer accommodations constructed after the Great Depression in Fish Creek. Architectural Description This cabin complex consists of nine cottages built over a period of a number of years. Cabins 1 [41-6], 2 [41-7] and 3 [41-8] are identical gable-front cabins with a shed roof rear addition. The walls are clad in half-round faux logs. The few windows are three over one double hung wood sash. Each of the cottages has an entrance landing surrounded by a "fence" of shaped boards. Cottage 4 [41-11] is similar to 1-3, but smaller without an entrance. Cottage 5 [41-10] is also similar to 1-3, but with a side shed roof addition and not entrance landing. The side and rear additions of these cottages were originally only screened walls. Cottage 6 [41-14] is a shed roof cottage with an entrance in the center of the man elevation. It is clad in drop siding. Cottages 7/8 [41-12] and 9/10 [41-13] are two-unit cottages. Side gable inform, they are clad in wide wood siding, and were constructed in the 1960s. They are not of the same character as the other cottages in the complex. Cottage 11 -41-15] is a gable front cottage with a steeply pitched roof. A small seciton projects from the front under a pent roof. A small addition under a shed roof extends off the side. The building is clad in wide clapboard o nthe bottom half of the first story and vertical half round logs on the top half and in the gable ends. Architectural Significance They are a good local example of the simple, affordable summer accommodations constructed after the Great Depression in Fish Creek |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Edward and Lois Schreiber, editors, Fish creek Voices, An Oral History of a door County Village, (Sister Bay, WI: Wm Caxton Ltd), 1990. B. Door County Almanak No. 5: Tourism, Resorts, Transportation (Sister Bay, WI: The Dragonsbreath Press), 1990. C. Bernice Lent, conversation with Rebecca Sample Bernstein, May, 1992. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |