| Additional Information: | 2019 City of New Berlin survey recommendation write-up:
Sheathed with wide board siding and featuring wide overhanging eaves, this 1960s Contemporary-style/Mid-Century Modern, split-level house is side-gabled in plan. Less the attached garage to the south, the house is symmetrical in its design. The central section includes a single door that is entirely surrounded by large plate-glass windows, through which one can see the staircase and walkway on the interior. Regularly placed, double-hung windows are found along both the first and second floors, while a wooden panel separates them at the center. The overhanging eaves at the north and south ends of the home protect clerestory windows that extend up to the roofline. A sliding glass door provides access to the deck over the garage. Photos of the home’s interior provided by the home’s current owner indicate that it remains significantly intact.
Located in Addition No. 1 to Hales Heights Estates subdivision and built in 1964-65, the home’s original owners were Paul and Carol Colburn. Paul Colburn was born in 1935 in Michigan. By no later than 1956, Paul was working/managing gas stations and, by no later than 1973, he owned and operated his own Mobil station at 300 W. Sunset Drive in Waukesha. In February 1964, he and his Minnesota-born wife Carol (nee Earl) purchased land in Addition No. 1 of the Hales Heights subdivision which had been platted in 1959 and built the subject “modern” home. Their tenure in the home was short, as they moved to Waukesha and sold the house in 1968 to Robert and Rose Mary Siefert. The home’s current owners, the Andersons, have resided in the home for thirty years.
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| Bibliographic References: | Building permit dated 24 August 1964; est. cost, $19,500.
Historical & Architectural Resources Survey, City of New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin prepared by tes | Historical Consulting, LLC, 2019.
Footnotes for 2019 City of New Berlin survey information provided below:
Interior photos of the home in possession of the home’s current owner, Gerald Anderson, were shown to Traci Schnell at the survey project’s second public meeting, which was held on 18 September 2019. Photos were available (and were still available online as of late September 2019) due to the fact that the house was currently for sale, with its closing anticipated for the week of 23 September 2019.
Hales Heights Dev. Inc. to Paul & Carol Colburn, Warranty Deed, 17 February 1964, 971/548, #605042; Building permit for 5030 S. Menard Drive (formerly 5040 S. Menard Drive), 12 August 1964, est. cost, $19,500, architect-builder-contractor line is illegible; Paul & Carol Colburn to Robert & Rose Mary Seifert, Warranty Deed, 8 July 1968, 1128/278, #717153; “Carol Ann Colburn,” Obituary, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 March 2005, Available online at https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?n=carol-ann-colburn&pid=3353092, Accessed June 2019. An advertisement for the Sunset Shell Station in Waukesha includes a photo of Colburn and reads, “Paul Colburn, Mgr. 16 Years Experience,” Waukesha Daily Freeman, 27 July 1972, 20. |
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