Property Record
432 WOLFF ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Meyer and Marjorie Gottlieb House |
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| Reference Number: | 51578 |
| Location (Address): | 432 WOLFF ST |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | Racine |
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| Year Built: | 1946 |
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| Survey Date: | 2008 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Usonian |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Edgar Tafel |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Built by Robert Albert. The Gottlieb's lived here from at least 1946-1987. 2008- Appearance unchanged since house was surveyed in 1994. 1-story, hip roof, irregular plan house with brick veneer. Windows are casement, clerestory, picture window on facade. Low pitch roof, combination of brick and horizontal wood siding, overhanging eaves, carport on facade supported by decorative wood posts with brick piers. No additions recorded in city records. Date of construction acquired from city records. Since building materials were in short supply in the postwar years, Tafel inventively employed used paving brick from Kenosha. Family room addition. Mr. Gottlieb was the vice president of Porter Furniture Co., and worked for them for 54 years. He came to Racine in 1924 from Lithuania, where he was born in 1900. He went to work at Porters that year as a deliveryman. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Building Permit No. 26-356, issued 8/12/46. City Hall, Racine, Wisconsin. (B) Informal interview with Edgar Tafel, April 1994. (C) Racine City Directories, 1947-1987. Historic Resources Survey, City of Racine. Mead & Hunt, Inc. June 2008. Blaustein, George Holt. Racine Landmarks Preservation Commission, July 1994. Newspaper article, 7/9/1979 (unknown source) Racine Landmarks Preservation Commission, Racine Frank Lloyd Wright and Prairie School Architecture Tour Guide, 1994. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |