Property Record
Garmisch Road (HC 73, Box 705)
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Forest Lodge Playhouse |
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| Other Name: | |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 147342 |
| Location (Address): | Garmisch Road (HC 73, Box 705) |
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| County: | Bayfield |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Namakagon |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 43 |
| Range: | 6 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 15 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1922 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1992 |
| Historic Use: | Domestic - outbuilding |
| Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | E.f. Hodgson Company |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Forest Lodge |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 2/14/2002 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/18/2002 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: |
| Additional Information: | The playhouse was a birthday present for Mrs. Mary Griggs Burke from her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Griggs. It is a miniature one-story frame house with a side-gable roof and multi-pane, six-over-six windows with shutters. The house has a shed covered porch that is enclosed by floor-to-ceiling open lattice work. An interior metal plaque indicates the playhouse is a prefabricated building designed by the E.F. Hodgson Company, an east-coast company that started producing a variety of prefabricated buildings in 1892. A Historic Structure Report of this building can be found in Room 312 at the Wisconsin Historical Society. #1016 #1017 #23508 #147307 #147321 # 147323 #147341 #147342 #147343 #147344 #147345 #147421 #147422 #147423 #147424 |
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| Bibliographic References: | . |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |