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Property Location
| Location (Address) | 3416 WASHINGTON AVE |
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| County | Racine |
| City/Village | Racine |
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Property Features
| Year Built | 1902 |
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| Survey Date | 2001,2015 |
| Historic Use | house |
| Architectural Style | Queen Anne |
| Structural System | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
| Architect | Radford |
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| Demolished | No |
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| Additional Comments | A 'site file' titled "Washington Avenue Residential Historic District" exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. As of 1900, Frank Olson was a machinist at the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co. In 1904, the house was sold to Mary Jane and Joseph Mosher. Joseph was born in New York in 1833 and moved to the town of Mt. Pleasant in 1854 to farm 160 acres. Mary Jane was born in New York in 1841 and came to Racine two years later. Joseph died in 1908 and Mary Jane in 1927. Their daughter Josie continued to live in the house until she sold it a week before her death on New Year's Eve, 1948. The property was purchased by Adele and Dominik Doksus, the grandparents of Susan Burke. Resurveyed 2015. 2015- "This one-story Queen Anne-style house was constructed in 1902. It has an irregular footprint and a steeply pitched hip roof with intersecting gable sections on the facade and east elevation. A one story tower with a flared pyramidal roof is tucked between the two gable sections. There are two one story open porches on the house. The main porch stretches across the facade gable section; it has a flat roof supported by turned posts and a deck wrapped by a wood railing. The second porch is smaller and incorporated under the east gable section. It has a turned post at the corner and small wood railing. Materials on the house include asphalt shingles sheathing the roof, exterior walls clad in clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. Decoration on the house incudes a finial base at the peak of the tower, and a frieze band with an X motif between the tower windows and roof juncture. There is a variety of fenestration present on the house, all windows and doors are wood framed and capped by a modest shelf molding. The facade facing windows on the first story and tower are one-over-one with the top light smaller than the bottom. Evenly sized one-over-one windows are present on the other elevations. Small one-over-one sashes are present in the facade and east gable. The entrances to the house are under the porches and face the south, each is partially glazed." - "Washington Ave (STH 20), Roosevelt Ave to West Blvd", WISDot #2440-09-00, Prepared by Shelley Greene (2015). |
| Bibliographic References | Preservation Racine, Inc. Tour of Historic Places Brochure, 2003. Racine Assessor. |
National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings
| National/State Register Listing Name | Not Listed |
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| Contributing | Yes |
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