Property Record
645 COLLEGE STREET
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Lipke Brothers Block |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 225966 |
| Location (Address): | 645 COLLEGE STREET |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Milton |
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| Year Built: | 1921 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2012 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Rock-Faced Concrete Block |
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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 IS A LARGE EXAMPLE OF ROCK-FACE CONCRETE BLOCK CONSTRUCTION, A TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION THAT IS OF ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST. ROCK-FACED CONCRETE BLOCKS BECAME POPULAR IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY FOR FOUNDTIONS AND SOME BUILDERS PROMOTED THEM FOR ENTIRE BUILDINGS, BUT NOT A LARGE NUMBER WERE CONSTRUCTED. THE ROCK-FACE WAS MEANT TO RESEMBLE STONE, A BUILDING MATERIAL PEOPLE WERE FAMILIAR WITH. HOWEVER, ENTIRE CONCRETE BOCK BUILDINGS DID NOT BECOME POPULAR UNTIL THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY WHEN THE SMOOTH CONCRETE BLOCK BECAME POPULAR. EVENTUALLY POURED CONCRETE OVERTOOK CONCRETE BLOCKS IN POPULARITY IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY CONSTRUCTION. |
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| Bibliographic References: | TAX ROLLS FOR MILTON AND THE TOWN OF MILTON, ROCK COUNTY COURTHOUSE, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, SANBORN-PERRIS FIRE INSURANCE MAPS, 1917, 1930. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |