Property Record
127 SHEBOYGAN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Charles A. Galloway House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 55190 |
| Location (Address): | 127 SHEBOYGAN ST |
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| County: | Fond du Lac |
| City: | Fond du Lac |
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| Year Built: | 1885 |
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| Survey Date: | 1991 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | East Division Street - Sheboygan Street Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 4/17/2010 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/19/2010 |
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| Additional Information: | This two and one-half story Queen Anne house has a steeply-pitched jerkinhead gable roof with intersecting two and one-half story gable-roofed bays. The house is covered with clapboards and accented with some applied stickwork. Windows are generally single-light double-hung sashes. A front porch wraps around the corner of the house and features square posts, a plain balustrade and a flat roof decorated with modillions. There is a fine carriage haouse on the property that features many projecting gables and a cupola. This house is architecturally significant as a good and interesting example of the Queen Anne style. While not as exuberantly detailed as many Queen Anne houses, this house has the massive form, bays, veranda and other details that make it an interesting example of the style. The large jerkinhead roof is probably the most unusual part of the house, while the projecting bays are typical of the style. The carriage is outstanding and should be preserved. This was the home of Charles A. Galloway, an executive with the Moore and Galloway Lumber Company, an important wood products company in Fond du Lac in the nineteenth century. Later, he was president of the Fond du Lac National Bank. At the present time this house is not historically significant. Further research into Galloway and his association with the Moore and Galloway Lumber Company may uncover information that makes him significant. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Fond du Lac City Directories. (B) Sanborn-Perris Maps - Fond du Lac. (C) Fond du Lac Tax Rolls. (D) Michael D. Lempinen and Les Ross, Intensive Survey Report, Fond du Lac: City of Fond du Lac and Sundberg, Carlson and Associates, Inc., 1989. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |