Property Record
829 E LAKE FOREST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | John F. & Louise McEwen House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 16938 |
| Location (Address): | 829 E LAKE FOREST |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Whitefish Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1925 |
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| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Other Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | Ernest Flagg |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | McEwens, John F., House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/12/1985 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County |
| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property named 'Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County'. 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. 1985- Cotswold Cottage. One of the Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County (listed on NRHP: 9/12/85). This one and one half-story house is 25 x 41 feet. The house is L-shaped with its original garage attached. A door on the second floor opens onto the flat garage roof. There are limestone exterior walls and a steep gable composition roof. There are two pairs of ridge dormers, five gable dormers, and three chimneys flush with the exterior walls. Window and door openings are asymmetrical. The living room has a beam and girder ceiling and stone fireplace. Casement windows open inward over tile sills. In 1955 a small powder room and an enclosed porch were added to the house. The south exterior wall of the house became the interior wall of the porch. A door where ice was formerly delivered to the kitchen of the house has been closed off. The bathroom on the second floor is one step above the level of the hallway. There is a pulldown stairway to the attic and grates in the attic floor provide ventilation for the rooms below via the ridge dormers. There is a small furnace room instead of a full basement. This house is architecturally significant because it is one a group of stone masonry houses built by Arnold F. Meyer & Company, Inc. according to the construction methods of Ernest Flagg. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Permit 376, Village of Whitefish Bay. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |