Property Record
603 GRANT ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Cornelius Curtis House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 51058 |
| Location (Address): | 603 GRANT ST |
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| County: | Marathon |
| City: | Wausau |
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| Year Built: | 1889 |
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| Additions: | 1904 1906 |
| Survey Date: | 1983 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Stucco |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Andrew Warren Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 1/5/1984 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | Photo code #1: K-16/21 Photo code #2: NR 218/13,14 Cornelius Curtis was born in 1851 in New York and moved to Illinois as a young child. His two old brothers started a sash and door company in 1866. Learning the business, Cornelius joined them in 1868. Curtis Brothers and Company of Wausau began with Cornelius C. Curtis moving to Wausau to establish a branch of the company there in 1881. The company changed its names in 1893 to Curtis & Yale Company when they merged with the Carpenter Brothers Company of Minneapolis. Cornelius married Emma M Gulick of Clinton, Iowa in 1872. They had two sons, John and Walter. Upon the sudden death of Cornelius in 1916, his youngest son, Walter, successfully took over the management of the company. Curtis & Yale Company, whose name changed again in 1937 to Curtis Companies, Inc., closed its door suddenly in 1962. The Curtis house, built in 1889, is a three-story stuccoed (originally clapboard) Queen Anne style house with an octagonal corner tower. The encircling classical porch replaced two smaller open "Eastlake style" porches in 1906. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Wausau Pilot, April 30, 1889. B. Wausau Pilot, May 3, 1904. C. Wausau Pilot, May 29, 1906. D. City Directories, 1888-1929. E. Marathon County Historical Society & Wausau Historic Landmarks Commission, Walking Tour of Andrew Warren Historic District in the City of Wausau, February 2007. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |