| Additional Information: | 2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan recommendation write-up:
Topped with a hipped roof, this two-story house is sheathed with brick on the first level and stucco on the second. A one-story bay projection extends from the south elevation and a large brick chimney rises from the rear of the house. The home’s primary (west) entrance elevation is symmetrical in design and includes a central entrance that features a classically derived wooden surround with a broken pediment; a transom is located above the door. To either side of the front door is a pair of six-over-one-light, double-hung sash windows that are topped with a blind arch of stucco that includes a tile inset at its center. The second floor includes five, six-over-one-light sash openings; all windows are flanked by non-working wooden shutters. Remaining windows throughout the house are largely symmetrically arranged.
Completed in 1928, the house was originally built for Alvin & Mabel Trester. Alvin was born in Sheboygan in 1894 and graduated from Sheboygan High School. He attended Marquette University’s School of Pharmacy from which he graduated in 1915. After working two years at the Bruhn Drug Co. he served in World War I in the Medical Corps. Following service he returned to the Bruhn concern, where he remained until 1922, when he purchased the South Side Drug Store at 814 Indiana Avenue. In 1919, he married Mabel Koehler and they had two sons. Alvin died in 1955 and the house was sold to Minnie “Ann” and Elwood Gosse. The Gosses, who married in 1936, remained in the home until their respective deaths in 1992 and 2002.
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| Bibliographic References: | LJM Architects, Inc. City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Architectural and Historical Intensive Survey Report. City of Sheboygan Historic Preservation Commission & Department of City Development; 2002, 2004 & 2006.
Citations for the recommendation write-up in the 2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan:
U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1920, 1930; “Alvin H. Trester, Well Known Druggist, Summoned,” The Sheboygan Press, 31 December 1955, 14; “Mabel Trester,” Obituary, The Sheboygan Press, 9 June 1987, 12; “M. Ann Gosse,” Obituary, The Sheboygan Press, 5 March 1992, 7; “Elwood Gosse,” Obituary, The Sheboygan Press, 2 February 2002, 5. |
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