Property Record
4684 N WILSHIRE RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Kellogg Patton House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 199643 |
| Location (Address): | 4684 N WILSHIRE RD |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Whitefish Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1930 |
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| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Dwight James Baum; landscape architect Annette Hoyt Flanders |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This house is an exterior replica of the oldest wood-framed home in the U.S., the Fairbanks house in Dedham, MA. The interior has hand-hewn timber floors taken from old east-coast farm houses and Zuber wallpaper from around 1860, cut from the walls of a home on the east coast and placed in the dining room. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Building permit records on file at Whitefish Bay Village Hall. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19680418&id=I94jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CCgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7283,4534312 |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |