Property Record
N9407 STATE HIGHWAY 78
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | York Evangelical Church |
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| Other Name: | York Memorial Church |
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| Reference Number: | 129998 |
| Location (Address): | N9407 STATE HIGHWAY 78 |
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| County: | Green |
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| Township/Village: | York |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 4 |
| Range: | 6 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 5 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NW |
| Year Built: | 1885 |
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| Additions: | 1949 |
| Survey Date: | 20022021 |
| Historic Use: | church |
| Architectural Style: | Early Gothic Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Starting in 1948, the church was resided with lannon stone, given a new belfry and renamed York Memorial Church. 2021: The York Evangelical Lutheran Church was constructed in 1885 in a Gothic Revival style and received a Neogothic Revival belltower addition and stone veneer in 1948-1949. The building is rectangular in plan with a stone veneer exterior and an asphalt-shingled, steeply-pitched gable roof. The front elevation faces south and is symmetrical in plan with a small front-gabled entry bay projecting from the center of the façade. The entry bay features buttresses at the front corners and a steeply-pitched roof with decoratively shaped bargeboards with a small pinnacle at the center peak. Centered in the entry bay is a pair of heavy wood double-doors with glazing in the upper third. The doors are set under a triangular recess containing stained glass windows with heavy wood mullions. Above the entry bay is a large Gothic arched opening containing a pair of downsized, Gothic-arched stained glass windows. The space around the windows is clad in wood siding. A wood or metal cross extends from the peak of the Gothic-arched opening through the center roof peak. Side elevations feature regularly spaced Gothic-arched windows with stone buttresses between each. A squared tower is located at the rear end of the east elevation and contains a secondary entrance in its southern wall. Above the entry level of the tower, stone piers with pyramidal caps rise from each corner and anchor a wooden bell tower mass with louvered panels in each wall; the bell tower mass is capped by a low pyramidal roof with a modest spire. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Date stone. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |