Property Record
1645 WISCONSIN AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | B LAMARCHE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 11978 |
| Location (Address): | 1645 WISCONSIN AVE |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | Racine |
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| Year Built: | 1912 |
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| Survey Date: | 1980 |
| Historic Use: | small office building |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Southside Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 10/18/1977 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | SIDE GABLE W/ END CHIMNEYSFLAT ARCH LINTELS W/ STONE TRIMFRONT CORNICE W/ DENTILSSIDES HAVE BASEMENT, SILL, AND ATTIC STONE COURSES MITERED ARCH MOTIF IN FRONT ENTRANCE AND PARAPETS Sold to Gustave and Ruby Malme. South Side Historic District Walking Tour Guide, 1993: "This Tudor style building was constructed as a photographic studio by Bernard LaMarche. He built the house behind it (216 Seventeenth Street) at the same time, where he lived with his wife, Augusta. The studio is simpler in detail than his house; it has more conventional and straight-lined Tudor parapets at the ends of its gables, while the house behind has fancier shaped Flemish parapets. Both buildings were given a slightly Mediterranean look by their roofs of rounded red tiles. Mr. La Marche did not operate his studio for long. He lived at 216 Seventeenth until 1918, but by 1916 he had rented this building and later sold it to Gustave Malme and his wife, Ruby. The Malmes lived at 1645 and Gustave operated his own photographic studio at 1647 Wisconsin until 1939." |
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| Bibliographic References: | CONSTRUCTION DATE FOUND IN SOUTHSIDE HISTORIC DISTRICT WALKING TOUR GUIDE" Racine Landmarks Preservation Commission, South Side Historic District Walking Tour Guide, 1993. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |