Property Record
4010 PAUNACK AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | CHARLES BAKER FARM BARN |
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| Reference Number: | 100975 |
| Location (Address): | 4010 PAUNACK AVE |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1860 |
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| Additions: | 1974 |
| Survey Date: | 19832012 |
| Historic Use: | barn |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Sandstone |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | BUILT AS A BARN IN THE 1860s. CONVERTED INTO A HOUSE around 1938 AND EXPANDED IN 1974. In the late 1940s, Professor James and Mildred (Billie) March added a wood frame addition to the east side. [3] "The oldest structure still standing in Westmorland dates to the 1860s. The cut sandstone-walled building was originally built as a stable and barn over one-hundred-fifty years ago by William R. Warren, who owned the eighty acres that stretched from Mineral Point Road to south of the future Illinois Central Railroad grade (built in 1887) and from Glenway Street to the current Westmorland Boulevard. (There also is a small storage shed from the same era built with rough sandstone walls that now stands in the backyard at 3822 Paunack Avenue in another section of the former Warren farm.) Otto Toepfer, Jr., purchased the property with the barn in 1899 and built his home at 4001 Mineral Point Road--adjacent to the barn--in 1906. In 1930, Toepfer sold both the house and barn to a prominent Madions banker, A.O. Paunack. The Paunack family occupied the home on Mineral Point Road and owned the adjacent barn until September of 1937, when Professor James March and his wife, Mildred (Billie), purchased the property and moved their young family into the former Toepfer home. The Marchs converted the barn to a residence around 1938 and rented it out beginning in 1939. During the late 1940s, the Marchs added a wood-frame addition to the east side.: Westmorland Neighborhood Association, Westmorland A Walking Tour, 2012. |
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| Bibliographic References: | 1. WESTMORLAND: A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE. MADISON: WESTMORLAND NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC., 2011, P. 15. 2. CITY OF MADISON BUILDING PERMITS. 3. Westmorland Neighborhood Association, Westmorland A Walking Tour, 2012. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |