Property Record
1709 W DREXEL AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Sam Wilke Residence |
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| Reference Number: | 141599 |
| Location (Address): | 1709 W DREXEL AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Oak Creek |
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| Year Built: | 1927 |
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| Survey Date: | 2006 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Other Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' 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, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. 2006- This property consists of a one-and-one-half-story, side-gabled residence resting on a fieldstone foundation. Closely surrounded by trees and other vegetation, the house is sheathed with vinyl siding and features gabled wings and a shed-roof dormer on the front (south) facade. This elevation also has a modern, one-story porch with squared posts. Fenestration consists of one-over-one, double-hung windows and large, modern picture windows. Other buildings found on the property include a one-story, hipped-roof brick garage with modern overhead doors; a one-story, front-gabled brick horse stable; a one-story, clapboard-sheathed outbuilding that features a low-pitched side gable roof and full-width shed-roof porch; and a one-story, gabled springhouse. The current property owner indicated that a barn formerly located on the property has been removed. She had also heard that the one-story outbuilding with the low-pitched roof may have been a former schoolhouse. The subject residence was constructed in 1927 and, at least as early as the 1930s, the property was part of a forty-acre parcel owned by Sam Wilke. No information could be found regarding Wilke. By 1954, the property consisted of twenty acres owned by Elmer G. and Rose Horneman. Directories do not list an occupation for Elmer Horneman. Plat maps further indicate that while a schoolhouse was located in the northeast corner of the subject section from the midnineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, no school building was ever shown to have been part of the subject property. -"I-94" WisDOT ID #1030-20-00, Prepared by Heritage Research, Ltd (McQuillen) (2006). |
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| Bibliographic References: | City of Oak Creek Assessor's records. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |