Property Record
419 W 3RD ST
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Other Name: | William & Carrie Bossman House |
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| Reference Number: | 15065 |
| Location (Address): | 419 W 3RD ST |
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| County: | Dodge |
| City: | Beaver Dam |
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| Year Built: | 1916 |
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| Survey Date: | 1974 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Bungalow |
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| Wall Material: | Wood Shingle |
| Architect: | SEARS & ROEBUCK |
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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, State Historic Preservation Office. JAPANESE INFLUENCE,EXPOSED RAFTER ENDS STICK WORK GABLES SEARS & ROEBUCK"THE OSBORN" MAIL ORDER HOUSE (1916-29 PLANS) Sears, Roebuck and Company might seem like a strange place to buy a house, but between 1908 and 1940, as many as 100,000 Americans purchased new homes through Sears' Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans. The company offered 450 models over the years. Sears shipped ready-to-assemble kits (also see PT5). Most buyers hired contractors to erect their Sears houses. Here in Beaver Dam, architect William Bossman and his new wife Carrie chose a popular Craftsman bungalow design, called “The Osborn.” One story tall, covered in wooden shingles and sheltered by a cross-gabled roof, the Osborn featured a full-width front porch and a smaller, screened porch to one side. The roof had an exaggerated peak at its gable apex, false half-timbering below its soffit and in its gable ends, jigsaw-cut bargeboards, exposed rafter tails, and prominent braces. The Sears plan called for stucco cladding on the porch, but Bossman, who, unlike most Sears customers, supervised the construction of his own house, chose instead to use wooden shingle cladding, matching the walls. An Osborn with a stuccoed porch survives in Fond du Lac (N5758 Main St.). |
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| Bibliographic References: | STEVENSON AND JANDL, "HOUSES BY MAIL" P203 Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |