| 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.
2012- This large, previously surveyed, highly intact, free-standing, Neoclassical Revival Style building was completed in 1909 and it is both
a very fine, highly intact example of this style and it is also an excellent example of an early twentieth century fraternal order lodge
building. This building measures 75-feet-wide by 90-feet-deep, it has a rectilinear plan, it is three stories tall, and it occupies a
prominent multi-lot corner parcel that was created by the intersection of the north-south-running Hughitt Ave. and the east-west running
Belknap St. and which gives it two principal elevations, the main one of which faces south onto Belknap St., while the other
faces east onto Hughitt A venue. The building sits on a poured concrete foundation that encloses a tall, raised, full basement story and
this basement story has walls above grade level that are clad in rusticated brownstone on the two main elevations. The exterior wall
surface that is located above this rusticated basement story on these two elevations is clad in a dark brown brick while the entire wall
surface above the foundation level on the west and north elevations is clad in cream brick. These four elevations are then crowned by
tall parapet walls that hide the building's flat roof from view, with the parapet walls on the two principal elevations being expressed as
blind balustrades that are fashioned out of brownstone.
The only changes that have affected the exterior of this building have been the filling in of the building's original third story window
openings with either glass block (on the main facade and the east-facing side elevation) and with brick on the rear elevation and west facing side elevation. 1983 survey photos also show that most of the building's original second story windows have also now been
replaced with modern ones as well. Most of the building's original interior, however, has survived intact.
-"USH 2 (Belknap St.)" WisDOT ID #8680-00-01 (71), Prepared by Timothy F. Heggland (MAP) (2012).
RUSTICATED 1ST FLR W/SEGMENTAL ARCH WINDOWS AND MAIN ENTRANCE. MONUMENTAL CORINTHIAN PORTICO IN SLIGHTLY PROJECTING ENTRANCE BAY. ROUND ARCHED 3RD FLR WINDOWS W/STILTED LINTELS. BALUSTRADED PARAPET. DENTICULATED PEDIMENT W/FLORAL MOTIF OF METAL CONSTRUCTION.
Parsons & Son, architects, had offices in Des Moines, Iowa and Duluth, Minnesota at this time. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Eckert, Kathryn. Sandstone Buildings in the Lake Superior Region. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.
Cornerstone.
Superior Telegram: June 6, 1908, p. 4 (illustrated); August 14, 1908, p. 12 (illustrated); August 15, 1908, p. 5; October 13, 1909, p. 9; October 14, 1909, p. 10; October 15, 1909, p. 8 (illustrated). |
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