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Topped with a slate shingle-covered, hipped roof, this Tudor Revival-style house is largely sheathed with brick, but also features stone and stucco and half-timber finishes. The two-story, gabled entrance projection features a Tudor-arched opening with corner buttressing that shelters a recessed wooden-paneled door with stone quoining. The second floor of the projection is covered with stucco and half-timber finish and includes a series of four windows with diamond paining. A second projection, this one a two-story, flat-roofed bay, carries what appear to be multiple-light casement windows on each level. Windows throughout the remainder of the house are arranged singly or in larger groupings and consist of either diamond or multiple-light paning. A one-story sunroom extends from the home’s south endwall, while a compound chimney rises from the west roofline. The integrated two-car garage and parking area is sheltered by a brick wall and is accessed off of Clement Avenue.
Although the architect of the home is not known, this house was constructed in 1929-1930 for A. Matt and Dorothy Werner. Mr. Werner was born Anthony Matthias Werner in 1894 in Kewaskum. He graduated from New London High School, after which he served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. After earning his law degree from Marquette University in 1919, he moved to Sheboygan and began practicing law with E. H. Clemens, establishing the firm of Werner & Clemens. In 1923, he served three, two-year terms as city attorney, during which time (in 1925) he married Dorothy Bowler, the daughter of Timothy Bowler, one of the founders of The Sheboygan Press, which he would join in 1947 as associate editor. Four years later he became editor and publisher and was named chairman of the board in 1964, after retiring as editor. In 1933, he was appointed to the Sheboygan Police and Fire Commission; he served a total of twenty-nine years--twenty years of which he served as chairman. Additionally, Werner served for thirty years on the UW Board of Regents, having been appointed to that position in 1939 and resigned in 1969; two years later the UW conferred on him an honorary doctor of laws degree. In 1973, the A. Matt. Werner Journalism Court in the Vilas Communication Hall on the UW campus was dedicated. The Werners had five children. In 1973, the same year they opened the home for a Woman’s Club Home Tour, the Werners sold the subject home to Dr. Donald Gore and built a house immediately to the south at 2500 N. 3rd Street. A Matt Werner died in 1977 and Dorothy died in 1996.
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for the 2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan recommendation write-up:
“City Attorney A. Matt Werner Will Not Be a Candidate in 1929,” The Sheboygan Press, 5 February 1929, 18; “Owners of Homes Prepare For Cold Weather, Report Indicates,” The Sheboygan Press, 4 September 1929, 5, cites permit for vapor heating; “Boutiques Planned for Tour of Homes,” The Sheboygan Press, 19 April 1973, 22; “Editor, Civic Leader A. Matt. Werner Dies,” The Sheboygan Press, 4 November 1977, 1, 8; “Sheboygan Press Editor is Dead,” The Sheboygan Press, 4 November 1977, 2; “Dorothy E. Werner,” Obituary, The Sheboygan Press, 3 January 1996, 2; “Do You Remember?” The Sheboygan Press, 2 February 2002, 16; “Library Honors Dorothy Werner,” The Sheboygan Press, 27 February 2004, 3. |
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