The Edward F. and Jean Kohl House Listed on the State Register of Historic Places
For Immediate Release (June 14, 2023)
De Pere, Brown County, WI. - The Wisconsin Historical Society announces the listing of the Edward F. and Jean Kohl House on the State Register of Historic Places.
The Edward F. and Jean Kohl House is a two-story single-family residence constructed in 1940. The L-shape plan residence is clad mostly in red brick. It features a two-story front-gabled portico with square columns, brick quoins that frame the symmetrical primary elevation, central entrance with lunette transom and sidelights, and dentil molding that highlights the cornice line with decorative interior molding as well.
Edward F. Kohl was the manager of the large H. C. Prange department store in Green Bay when his new house was built. The residence was designed by Harry W. Williams, a Green Bay architect who was then nine years into his solo career as an architect and is now considered to have been one of the most successful architects practicing in the Green Bay area during the mid-twentieth century. It is one of the largest and is the finest Neoclassical Revival style houses to have been built in De Pere.
The State Register is Wisconsin's official list of state properties determined to be significant to Wisconsin's heritage. The State Historic Preservation Office at the Wisconsin Historical Society administers both the State Register and National Register in Wisconsin.
Additional information for the Edward F. and Jean Kohl House is available at
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Property/HI121634
To learn more about the State and National Register programs in Wisconsin, visit: www.wisconsinhistory.org.
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