Property Record
1325 N MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Rev. Carl Mack House |
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| Reference Number: | 224998 |
| Location (Address): | 1325 N MAIN ST |
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| County: | Winnebago |
| City: | Oshkosh |
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| Year Built: | 1910 |
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| Survey Date: | 2013 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Dutch Colonial Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2013- This two-and-one-half-story, Dutch Colonial Revival-style house is sheathed with clapboard on the first floor and wooden shingles on the upper levels. The roof consists of a front-facing gambrel gable with two large side gambel wall dormers and a small gabled window dormer (north slope); all of the gambrel elements are flared. The front gambrel gable extends over the facade-length porch. The gambrel gable and a small, centered pedimented gabled stoop overhang are supported by wooden Tuscan columns resting on rusticated concrete-block foundation piers; a spindled balustrade connects the columns. A recessed airing porch is located at the southwest (rear) comer and a tripartite bay is situated on the first floor of the north sidewall. Fenestration generally consists of one-over-one, double-hung sashes; a large picture window is situated on the first floor of the main facade. Rev. Carl Mack acquired this parcel from the H.M. Foulke Land Company in January 1909 and completed the subject house no later than August 1911. Mack was born in 1883 in Germany and was a minister at Oshkosh’s German Evangelical Church after living previously (before 1908) in Outagamie County. He died sometime between 1920 and 1930. His wife, Mary, remained at the residence into the 1940s. The home was owned in 1951 by Norbert Stoegbauer and, in 1960 by Eugene Balts. The form and general appearance of this house is reminiscent of the model “No. 123” Sears, Roebuck & Company mail-order house, which was marketed from 1911 to 1913. While the subject house does retain remarkably similar roof, dormer and ornamentation arrangement to the No. 123, the subject house displays flared gambrel-roof dormers, different porch columns, a slightly different dormer window arrangement and an inset airing porch at the southwest (rear) corner. Furthermore, a former owner indicated the interior had been significantly remodeled with the front staircase enclosed, fireplace removed, several doors covered over and all walls paneled before she purchased the house. Also, while much of the interior room layout is similar, the rear staircase orientation is completely different (due to the airing porch) and the upstairs bathroom is on the opposite side of the hallway and could have never been in the location identified in the Sears plan. No beam markings or hardware imprints were noted by the former owner. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Directories. "N. Main Street Survey," WisDOT ID #4994-01-14/15, Prepared by Heritage Research (2013). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |