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18700 CAPITOL DR / STATE HIGHWAY 190 | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

Property Record

18700 CAPITOL DR / STATE HIGHWAY 190

Architecture and History Inventory
18700 CAPITOL DR / STATE HIGHWAY 190 | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Harder Funeral Home
Other Name:Harder Funeral Home
Contributing:
Reference Number:182521
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):18700 CAPITOL DR / STATE HIGHWAY 190
County:Waukesha
City:Brookfield
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
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Quarter Section:
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1974
Additions:
Survey Date:201120152020
Historic Use:funeral home
Architectural Style:Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival
Structural System:
Wall Material:Brick
Architect:
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name:Not listed
National Register Listing Date:
State Register Listing Date:
NOTES
Additional Information:Capitol Drive Architecture/History Survey, WisDOT #2025-15-00, Prepared by Heritage Research (2011).

This Colonial Revival-style funeral home is sheathed with brick. It features a two-story, front-gabled core surrounded on
three sides by one-story blocks topped with either a gabled or truncated hipped roof. The roof of the main block on- the
south (primary) facade extends forward and is supported by four Doric columns. The extended roof is underscored with a
denticulated cornice. The main doorway is tucked underneath the roof extension and is topped by an oversized broken
pediment. The remainder of this large building features little significant ornamentation and is outfitted with large fourlight
casement windows and one-over-one, double-hung sashes.

This funeral home was built in 1974 as the Harder Funeral Home; the name it still carries today.

2020: Resurveyed - appearance unchanged.
Bibliographic References:Funeral Home Staff.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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