Property Record
161 N OAKLAND AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Antoinette Blesch House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 2161 |
| Location (Address): | 161 N OAKLAND AVE |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1888 |
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| Survey Date: | 19852021 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Oakland--Dousman Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 4/27/1988 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | Photo code #2: 75BR-6/30 Very fine Queen Anne largely original condition save for the altered front doors and the installation of a large 25 light picture window on the first floor facing the front. Otherwise, the house is in excellent condition and is notable for two two-story, gable roof polygonal salients, one on the north facade and one on the south facade. The north facing salient has a two-story hip roof rectilinear by attached, having an enclosed first floor and an open second floor above used as a porch. Alternating bands of diamond pattern and fishscale wood shingles separate the two floors of the bay with the open second floor having turned supporting columns and elaborate jig-saw cut detailing. The front facade has a sunburst decorating the third floor gable end and the front facing main gable end is sided with fishscale wood shingles with stucco above. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Brown County Tax rolls. (B) Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Brown, Kewaunee & Door, Wisconsin, 1895, p. 161. (C) Green Bay City Directory 1900. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |