Property Record
644-650 COLLEGE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Crandall Maxon Block |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 225965 |
| Location (Address): | 644-650 COLLEGE ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Milton |
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| Year Built: | 1915 |
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| Survey Date: | 2012 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Twentieth Century Commercial |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | WILLIAM WHITTET, BUILDER |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Parkview Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 8/3/2015 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/27/2015 |
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| Additional Information: | THIS BUILDING WAS REBUILT ON THE SITE OF A LARGE STORE BUILDING THAT BURNED IN 1914. W. B. MAXON HAD A LONG-TIME HARDWARE STORE ON THIS SITE AND REBUILT WHEN THAT BUILDING BURNED. MAXON HAD THE HARDWARE BUSINESS UNTIL 1934, THEN IT WAS THE LONG-TIME HARDWARE STORE OF FRANK HOLMES. THE BUILDING IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY COMMERICIAL ARCHITECTURAL STYLE AND IT WAS THE HOME OF ONE OF THE LONGEST RETAIL BUSINESSES IN MILTON, THE MAXON-HOLMES HARDWARE STORE. |
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| Bibliographic References: | BICENTENNIAL HISTORY OF MILTON, WISCONSIN, 1976; TAX ROLLS FOR MILTON AND THE TOWN OF MILTON, ROCK COUNTY COURTHOUSE, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, "FIRE WIPES OUT BUSINESS PLACES," MILTON JOURNAL-TELEPHONE, DECEMBER 31, 1914, P. 1. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |