Property Record
137 N PROSPECT AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Edward Charles Elliott House |
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| Reference Number: | 16076 |
| Location (Address): | 137 N PROSPECT AVE |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1910 |
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| Survey Date: | 1974 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Prairie School |
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| Wall Material: | Stucco |
| Architect: | George W. Maher; Claude and Starck |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Elliott, Edward C., House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 8/11/1978 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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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. This house is also part of the University Heights Historic District (NRHP 12-17-1982). Madison Landmark: 7/15/1974. The Elliotts lived here from 1911-1916. He was a Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin. He was the director of a course for training teachers and was instrumental in the establishment of Wisconsin High, a demonstration school. Ralph H. and Nellie C. Hess lived here from 1916-1928. He was an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin. Chester D. and Louise Snell lived here from 1929-1930. He was the Dean of the University of Wisconsin Extension Division. The University Heights Historic District: A Walking Tour: "George W. Maher was one of the first Chicago architects to develop a recognizable, personal style within the idiom now known as the prairie style. Maher began his career in the office of Chicago architect Joseph L. Silsbee in 1887, one of his coworkers there being the young Frank Lloyd Wright. By 1910 Maher had developed a mature style which owed much to the great English Arts and Crafts architects Charles A. Voysey as it did to his Chicago colleagues. The house he designed for University of Wisconsin education professor Edward C. Elliot and his wife in 1910 is typical of Maher's residential work of this period. The lines of the hip roof, with its wide overhanging eaves, are echoed by the slanting side walls of the house and the flared entrance door surround and serve to visually wed the house to the ground. The five beltcourses that encircle the second floor clearly emphasize the horizontality of the design in typical prairie style fashion. The house is also distinguished by the fine art glass side light that flank the entrance door and have a distinctive lilac motif." |
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| Bibliographic References: | City directories. Tax records. Building permit. A Walk Through a Turn of the Century Suburb-University Heights. Account journal of the Elliott's. Housing Madison: Where We Live, Where We Work. Ed. Anna Vemer Andrzejewski and Arnold R. Alanen for “Nature + City: Vernacular Buildings and Landscapes of the Upper Midwest,” 2012 Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF). Madison Landmarks Commission and the Regent Neighborhood Association, The University Heights Historic District: A Walking Tour, 1987. A Celebration of Architecture: Wisconsin Society of Architects Tour of Significant Architecture, 1979. Madison Landmarks Commission, University Heights: A Walk Through A Turn of the Century Suburb, n.d. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |