Property Record
5654 N SANTA MONICA BLVD
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 181861 |
| Location (Address): | 5654 N SANTA MONICA BLVD |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Whitefish Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1890 |
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| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | English Revival Styles |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | William Henry Consaul, born in 1820, was the son of one of Whitefish Bay’s earliest settlers, William Consaul. William Henry was married to Ruth, an English immigrant. They inherited his father’s farm after his death in 1855. In 1864, William Henry and his brother, Captain Theodore Consaul, began operating a pound net fishing company. They later sold the business to William Henry’s son-in-law, Lewis Scheife. A bunkhouse constructed to house workers on the farm in the early 1870s was converted to a single-family residence for his son William T. and his wife to live in after their wedding. William Henry Consaul died in 1889, three years after the death of his wife; both are buried in the Town of Milwaukee Cemetery. Lewis Scheife, born in Whitefish Bay, was married to Mary Joe Consaul, daughter of William Henry Consaul, in 1884. After purchasing a pound-net fishing company from his father-in-law, William H. Consaul, and his wife’s uncle, Captain Theodore Consaul, Scheife supplied 300 to 600 pounds of fish weekly to the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort. A resident involved with the incorporation of the Village of Whitefish Bay, he was elected as one of the five original village trustees in 1892. Scheife also served as Whitefish Bay postmaster from 1892 to 1900, which he operated from his non-extant general store at the southwest corner of Silver Spring and Marlborough Drives which opened that same year. The Scheife family lived in six rooms above the store, until it was sold to John D. Singles in 1898. At that time, Lewis Scheife and William Henry Consaul opened a hardware store in a non-extant two-story building at 436 & 438 E. Silver Spring Drive. The Scheife family moved to this building as well. The hardware store was sold to H. P. Wilke in 1920. Also that year, Scheife and his wife acquired her parent’s former home on Santa Monica Boulevard. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Building permit records on file at Whitefish Bay Village Hall. Fehring, Thomas H. “Whitefish Bay Homes of the Consaul Families.” Application for listing on the Whitefish Bay Architecture and History Inventory. Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin: Whitefish Bay Historic Preservation Commission, 2007. Whitefish Bay – Then and Now. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: League of Women Voters of the North Shore of Milwaukee County Wisconsin, 1970. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |