Property Record
707 CHAPPLE AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Peck-Hosmer House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 569 |
| Location (Address): | 707 CHAPPLE AVE |
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| County: | Ashland |
| City: | Ashland |
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| Year Built: | 1897 |
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| Survey Date: | 19822012 |
| 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: | Chapple and MacArthur Avenues Residential Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/27/2014 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 8/23/2013 |
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| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION: Very large and richly treated three-story clapboard Late Picturesque style house has a large shingled and flared front end gable with coupled rectangular windows joined above by a semi-circular fan light with shingled arch overhead. The second story, covered in clapboard has two coupled rectangular windows that meet the denticulated eave. Below, a large Bungaloid veranda with tapered rectangular pillars cover the off-center entry. A gabled two-story projection extends from central bay on southeast side and the house continues at two story height to the rear. House is in excellent condition and compares well with other grand late 1890's Late Picturesque style houses on the 700 block of Chapple Avenue, the strongest point of the proposed district. SIGNIFICANCE: The house is significant for its pivotal role in the proposed residential district as a superb and well-preserved example of the district's best Late Picturesque style architecture which is generally grand in decoration and monumental in scale like this house. 2012: Based on a combination of deeds, city directories and the 1900 census, the house appears to have been built in 1897 by Samuel and Mary Peck. Their ownership appears to have been short, for they sold the house to Elizabeth and Frank Pleas in September of 1899, after which it was sold to Dr. Mathew Hosmer in January 1900. Although the Pecks had the house built, it does not appear that they resided in the house, but lived instead next-door with E.F. & Mary Gleason--and the Pecks rented the house out. THe 1899-1900 directory does indentify that the Pleas family did reside here, after which the Hosmers lived here. |
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| Bibliographic References: | E.F. & Mary Gleason to Mary D. Peck, Warranty Deed, 23 April 1897, 63/117, #7172. Mary D. Peck to Elizabeth Pleas, Warranty Deed, 20 September 1899, 63/319, #10569. Elizabeth Pleas to Mathew Hosmer, Warranty Deed, 4 January 1900, 63/355, #11128. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |