Property Record
13350 W NORTH AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Cushing House |
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| Reference Number: | 104299 |
| Location (Address): | 13350 W NORTH AVE |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | Brookfield |
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| Year Built: | 1860 |
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| Additions: | C. 1870 |
| Survey Date: | 19932015 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Wood |
| Architect: | J. H. Cushing |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Prior to 2015, the "other name" identified on this record for the house was "Anderson house." Dates included in this record are assumed to have been from the 1993 Brookfield survey; as well as the reference to Cushing being the architect/builder. 2015: Significantly obscured from view by trees, this two-story, vinyl-clad house is oriented to the west and includes a one-story wing to the north and another one-story wing to the east. The shuttered windows along the two-story, side-gabled block appear to be six-over-six-light, double-hung examples, many of which are topped with pedimented hoods. A house (and perhaps a portion of the subject structure) was located on this parcel by no later than 1859 and built by the Cushing family. Born in New York in 1796, Walter Bradley Cushing is identified as having moved to Wisconsin with his wife Eloisa in 1840 and to Brookfield in 1842. Walter Cushing died in 1856, at which time the subject property was transferred to son John H. Cushing (b. 1831). Eloisa died in 1888. The younger Cushing farmed the land into the 1910s, even after having moved from the subject house to a home (no longer extant) on Wauwatosa Avenue in Wauwatosa. John died in 1918 and his wife Clara died in 1927. The land continues to be identified as that of John H. Cushing in 1930; deeds seem to indicate the property was sold to Oswald C. Jaeger in 1938. As of 1962, the house was occupied by Mrs. Gladys Marquardt. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Walling’s Map of the County of Waukesha (1859); Atlas of Waukesha County (1873); Plat Book of Waukesha County (1891); Standard Atlas of Waukesha County (1914); Wisconsin State Atlas, 1930; “Walter Bradley Cushing,” Biographical information included in “C Surname Biographies and Histories, Family Births and Marriages Waukesha County, Wisconsin,” Available online at www.linkstothepast.com/waukesha/marCbios.php, Accessed December 2015; Lucinda E. Seeley and husband to John H. Cushing, WD, 29 December 1856, 21/147; Clara Cushing, Deceased by Court, Final Decree, 15 February 1937, 267/60, #212696; Eloisa Cushing, Deceased by Court, Term of Life Estate, 1 February 1938, 267/488, #218751; Brookfield City Directory, 1961-62. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |