| Additional Information: | Information from the 2022 WisDOT survey report:
Rising one story from a brick foundation and topped with a flat roof with wide overhanging eaves, this wood-clad Wrightian style house (1956) features a wide Roman brick chimney. Heavy foliage largely obscures the house from direct view; however, online photos indicate that the living room features floor-to-ceiling windows, while the remainder of the house is illuminated by bands of wood casement windows. In 2015, a free-standing, triangular-shaped, flat-roofed garage and workshop was built south of the house.
Designed by Mendel Glickman, longtime chief engineer for Frank Lloyd Wright, this house was built in 1956 for John & Sonia Dulka. Born in Milwaukee in 1911 and the son of a tailor, John Dulka worked as a reference assistant at the Milwaukee Public Library before attending Columbia University in his late-20s, where he earned his M.S. in Library Science. In 1943, he married Sonia J. Milavsky. Born in Russia, Sonia was an infant when she and her family came to the United States in 1913. By 1930, Sonia was working as a page in the Milwaukee Public library, where John and Sonia most likely met. In 1951, John and Sonia organized the North Shore Democratic Unit, in which they would be active for their respective lifetimes. They were both also active in Jewish causes, including Jewish Children’s Services. At the time the house was built, John was a reference librarian at the Milwaukee State Teacher’s College (present-day UW-Milwaukee). John died in 2003 and Sonia died in 2005, while still living in the E. Bywater Lane house. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for the 2022 WisDOT survey report information below:
Photos of the home are available online at https://tour.vht.com/50030952/1100-e-bywater-lane-fox-point-wi-53217/photos, Accessed October 2022; Application for building permit for garage, 8 July 2015, est. cost, $30,000.
No original building permit is in the property file; however, the water permit was taken out on 12 March 1956 and cites John Dulka as the owner; Assessor’s information, Village of Fox Point; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950; “Regents are Requested to Equalize Pay,” Marshfield (WI) News-Herald, 6 January 1956, 10; “John Dulka” in U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Available online at www.ancestry.com, Accessed October 2022; “Sonia M. Dulka,” Obituary, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 January 2005, Available online at https://www.legacy.com/ us/obituaries/jsonline/name/sonia-dulka-obituary?id=3103621, Accessed October 2022; Ann Mond Johnson as successor trustee of the Sonia M. Dulka Revocable Living Trust to Dennis Neal and Diane Trevarrow Evans, Trustee’s Deed, 29 April 2005, #09003052. Although Mendel Glickman is not cited on any permit information, I (Traci Schnell), as a member of Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin, was involved with research on the house, as it was possibly going to be on the annual Wright & Like home tour in 2005, at which time I learned it was designed by Glickman. Due to Sonia’s death in January of 2005 and the subsequent sale of the home, the house did not end up on the tour.
“Mendel Glickman,” biographical information provided online at https://okcmod.com/firms/glickman-mendel/, Accessed in October 2022. |
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