225 E DIVISION ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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225 E DIVISION ST

Architecture and History Inventory
225 E DIVISION ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Alwina Muenter House; Helen and Louis Rueping
Other Name:
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:53490
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):225 E DIVISION ST
County:Fond du Lac
City:Fond du Lac
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1902
Additions:
Survey Date:1988
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:Queen Anne
Structural System:
Wall Material:Clapboard
Architect:
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: East Division Street - Sheboygan Street Historic District
National Register Listing Date:4/17/2010
State Register Listing Date:2/19/2010
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
Additional Information:This two and one-half story Queen Anne house has a large and rambling plan and classically-influenced details. It has an unusual gambrel roof with an intersecting gambrel accenting the front facade. The roof eaves are all decorated with modillions, and a palladian window decorates the front gambrel. Other openings are largely shingle-light double-hung sashes. A very large veranda wraps around both ends of the house. It features limestone piers supporting grouped round columns that support a flat roof. Under the wide porch eaves is a frieze decorated with dentils. The house is sided with narrow clapboards with wood shingles in the broad gables.

This house is architecturally significant as a good example of a Queen Anne house. The massive and rambling plan of this house is primarily what distinguishes it as Queen Anne. The large veranda and classical details are typical of later versions of the style. This 1902 house has suggestions of the emerging Colonial Revival style while still reflecting the irregularity of the Queen Anne style.
Bibliographic References:(A) Fond du Lac City Directories. (B) Sanborn-Perris Maps - Fond du Lac. (C) Fond du Lac Tax Rolls.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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