Property Record
9435 SPRUCE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 49679 |
| Location (Address): | 9435 SPRUCE ST |
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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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| Year Built: | 1935 |
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| Survey Date: | 1992 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | #650: Three cottages 41/27-29. Historical Background This property (the north half of lots 7 and 8 of block 12) was originally part of Asa Thorp's large holdings in Fish Creek. In 1899 Thorp sold lot 8 to Frank and Jessie Blakefield. In 1910, the Blakefields sold lot 8 to Bessie G. Poirier. The next year Bessie and her husband G.G.S. sold the north half of lots 7 and 8, block 12 to Frank and Anna Seaquist. In 1931 the Seaquists sold the property to Minnie Stenzel. Stenzel sold the property to Dorothy Stern in 1968. Stern sold the property to William and Carol Bolton in 1990. Minnie Stenzel and her husband Henry built the house about 1935, and the cottages as income properties sometime thereafter. Historical Significance They are a good local example of the simple, affordable summer accommodations constructed after the Great Depression in Fish Creek on the grounds of an existing home. Architectural Description The main house [37-2] is a side gable bungalow with jerkin head roof and a shed roof dormer. The house is clad in clapboard on the first story, wood shingle on the second story. Windows, in singles, pairs, and triplets are three-over-one. Three cottages are on the south end of the property. One [41-27] is a side gable under a jerkin-head asphalt clad roof. Windows are multi-pane casement. The other two [41-28,29] are mirror images of each other. They are gable front with casement windows clad in drop siding with vertical boards. Architectural Significance They are a good local example of the simple, affordable summer accommodations constructed after the Great Depression in Fish Creek on the grounds of an existing home. |
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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. Door County Register of Deeds, book/page 195/502, 467/998, 290/203, 46/5, 45/609, 15/469, 23/79, 13/187. D. Helen Schreiber Allen, interview with Rebecca Bernstein, 1 September, 1992, Fish Creek, Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |