Property Record
403 N PEARL ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | HENRY MCNAMARA HOUSE |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 11720 |
| Location (Address): | 403 N PEARL ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Janesville |
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| Year Built: | 1885 |
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| Survey Date: | 19852014 |
| 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: | Look West Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/10/1993 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 12/11/1993 |
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| Additional Information: | Two-and-one-half story frame house with narrow lap siding. Highly ornamented with features from the Queen Anne and Eastlake styles. Queen Anne features include the recessed porch with decorative pendants and a balustrade, horizontal siding, roof cresting on the porch roof, three-sided bay window, verge boards, and an encircling porch. Typical of the Eastlake style are the tapered round porch posts, spindle balusters, and fan-like porch brackets. These features are in an excellent state of preservation. Built in about 1885 for Henry McNamara wh lived here until 1913. Soon after settling in Janesville, McNamara was employed as a traveling salesman. He later established a hardware store on W. Milwaukee Street. "This Queen Anne style house occupies the site of the first public school in Look West, built about 1855. McNamara, who resided here 1889-1913, was a traveling salesman and hardware merchant." THE LOOK WEST HISTORIC DISTRICT, PREPARED BY LANDSCAPE RESEARCH FOR THE JANESVILLE HISTORIC COMMISSION, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN 1987. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) MAPS. (B) DIRECTORIES, 1891, 1903, 1913. (C) THE LOOK WEST HISTORIC DISTRICT, PREPARED BY LANDSCAPE RESEARCH FOR THE JANESVILLE HISTORIC COMMISSION, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 1987. (D) ASSESSMENT ROLLS, 1890, 1900, 1905. (E) HISTORY OF ROCK COUNTY, p. 873. "Cultural Resources Report For the Proposed Talman House Telecommunications Facility in Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin." WHS Project #14-0719/RO. June 2014. Prepared by Marcy Prchal. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |