| Additional Information: | Information from the 2022 WisDOT survey report:
The main block of this largely two-story, Colonial Revival-style house (1941) includes a two-story, gabled wing projection with an exterior chimney at its east end, while a one-story gabled wing with a multiple-light, bay window projects from the west end. The home’s primary entrance, which is flanked by sidelights, is located in between. The first floor is constructed of brick, while the upper level is covered with board siding, as is the side-gabled, two-car garage that is attached to the house via an open breezeway. Regularly spaced, six-over-six-light, double-hung sash are found along the home’s north entrance elevation, while a series of three bay windows project from the first floor’s east façade. Permits indicate that the fireplace and chimney was a 1942 addition, while the expansion of the living room and the addition of a second-floor bedroom was completed in 1948. The 2007 garage replaced an earlier attached garage at that location.
This house was built in 1941 by Marvin Hersh for himself, his wife Lillian (Goldmann) and their daughter Marjorie. The son of Jewish Russian immigrants, Marvin was born in Sparta, Wisconsin in 1907. Following his 1925 graduation from Washington High School, Marvin earned in 1929 a B.S. degree in civil engineering from UW-Madison, after which he operated his own construction and engineering firm. Following its dissolution, Marvin served as the vice president and director of engineering for the Joseph P. Jansen Company in Milwaukee. He would later become the construction coordinator at Milwaukee’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center. Between 1954 and 1957, the Hershes sold the home and moved to Shorewood, where Lillian passed away in 1957. Shortly thereafter, the house was owned (or simply occupied) by former St. Louis socialite and divorcee Mrs. Sarah Neblett and her four sons. By 1958, the home was owned by Arnold D. K. and Phyllis Mason, who owned the home until selling in 1984. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for the 2022 WisDOT survey report information below:
Building Permit Application for 7401 N. Bridge Lane, 7 February 1941, Owner: Marvin Hersh, est. cost, $7,000; Permit for Fireplace and chimney, 30 July 1942, Owner: Hersch; Permit for addition to first-floor living room and second-floor bedroom, 13 October 1948, owner: Hersch, est. cost, $1,500; Permit for garage, 15 June 2007, owner: Andrew Paretti, est. cost, $20,000; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1930, 1940, 1950; Whitefish Bay, Fox Point and River Hills Directory, 1942 (N.p.: Whitefish Bay Woman’s Club, 1942), 182; “Mrs. Lillian Hersh,” Obituary, The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (Milwaukee, WI), 10 May 1957, 8; “Hersh is Construction Coordinator at Mt. Sinai,” The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 25 June 1971, 2; “Marvin Hersh,” Obituary, The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 24 March 1995, 18; Phyllis H. Mason to Andrew and Maria R. Paretti, Warranty Deed, 9 August 1984, 1668/591, #5741427. |
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