Property Record
1108 WESTERN AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Cass Green |
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| Reference Number: | 80197 |
| Location (Address): | 1108 WESTERN AVE |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| City: | Watertown |
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| Year Built: | 1869 |
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| Survey Date: | 1986 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Federal |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This house was built by John Richards for his daughter Mary Richards and her husband, Cass Green in 1869. Green was the first regularly appointed mail carrier in Watertown. Mary Green's father, John Richards, was an important early pioneer attorney and builder of Watertown's famed Octagon House. This house has some historical inetrest as the home of Mary and Cass Green. They are not individually historically significant, though, and the house does not meet the eligibility criteria for the National Register. Built by John Richards in 1869 at the time of his daughter Mary Alice's marriage to Lewis Cass Green, this symmetrical designed, rectangular house covered by horizontal clapboards features frieze boards, cornice, plain rectangular window frames with small cornices, two over two lights and exterior shutters and sidelighted door with transom window in the center of the facade. A shed roofed addition is located at the rear. The Lewis Cass Green house is significant under criterion C as a good vernacular interpretation of the Colonial Federal style. Exhibiting the Federal style stripped of the Georgian ornament as built in the 19th century, the Green house is a plain clapboard covered box topped with low hipped roof and ornamented only by small window cornices and central door opening articulated with sidelights and overlight. Although the only frame house of this type in the city, other examples of the "so-called" Federal style or "colonial" hosue style in brick are the houses at 1215 Western Ave. (35/13), 406 So. Washington (54/29) and 1230 North Fourth St. (27/6). |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Evelyn Ruddick Rose, Our Heritage of Homes, (Watertown Historical Society, 1980), pp. 66. (B) Watertown Daily Times, Aug. 6, 1936. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |