Additional Information: | THIS TWO STORY GREEK REVIVAL STYLED HOUSE AND MEETING HALL WAS BUILT IN 1838. (SEE BIB. REF. B, 1). IT FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, A CLAPBOARD EXTERIOR, A WOOD TRIM AND AN ASPHALT SHINGLED GABLE ROOF. GIANT PILASTERS RISING TWO STORIES TALL EMBELLISH THE MAIN FACADE, AND VISUALLY SUPPORT A MASSIVE CORNICE. THE SIX-OVER-SIX WINDOWS ARE EACH DESIGNED WITH PROMINENTLY CARVED WINDOW SURROUNDS. DRAWING UPON THE SURROUNDING ARCHITECTURE, THE FRONT ENTRANCE CONTAINS A LARGE, DENTIL TRIMMED CORNICE WHICH IS VISUALLY SUPPORTED BY PILASTERS. A FURTHER ADORNMENT IS EXECUTED IN THE USE OF A TRANSOM WINDOW APPEARING ABOVE THE DOOR. THE BUILDING IS IN GOOD CONDITION. HABS: WI-237.
INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS BUILDING AND THE DATES OF THEIR ASSOCIATION INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: SAMUEL CRAWFORD, FROM 1848 TO 1858; WILLIAM THOMAS, FROM 1866 TO 1895; MARY HALES, FROM 1900 TO 1910; AND MARY RICHMOND FROM 1915 TO 1925. (SEE BIB. REF. A).
AT SOME UNSPECIFIED PERIOD IN HISTORY, THE STRUCTURE WAS USED AS A PLACE OF RESIDENCE. (SEE BIB. REF. F). HOWEVER, BETWEEN 1838 AND 1843, THE BUILDING BEGAN TO BE USED AS A MEETING HALL BY FRATERNAL GROUPS IN MINERAL POINT. (SEE BIB. REF. B). THE STRUCTURE IS KNOWN HISTORICALLY AS THE IOWA LODGE NO. 1. (SEE BIB. REF. B, 1). IT WAS THE FIRST ODD FELLOWS LODGE WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIES. CURRENTLY, THE BUILDING IS KNOWN AS THE IOOF MUSEUM. |
Bibliographic References: | “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 151: Dodgeville To Belmont.” WHS project number 92-0510IA/LT. October 1993. Prepared by Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center (GLARC).
A. TAX ROLLS FOR THE CITY OF MINERAL POINT. ON FILE AT THE AREA RESEARCH CENTER OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE, PLATTEVILLE, WI.
B. "MINERAL POINT GUIDE." MINERAL POINT: MINERAL POINT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, N.D.
C. FRANK HUMBERSTONE, JR. AND ANNE D. JENKIN, "THE HOMES OF MINERAL POINT." MINERAL POINT: FOUNTAIN PRESS, 1976.
D. C. W. BUTTERFIELD, "THE HISTORY OF IOWA COUNTY, WISCONSIN." CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1881. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
E. GEORGE FIEDLER, "MINERAL POINT, A HISOTRY." MADISON: STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN, 1973.
F. FIELD OBSERVATION BASED ON ARCHITECTURAL STYLE, BUILDING MATERIALS AND LOCAL HISTORY.
G. SANBORN-PERRIS FIRE INSURANCE MAPS FOR THE CITY OF MINERAL POINT. ON FILE IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON.
Mineral Point Chamber/Main Street & The Mineral Point Historical Society, Historic Mineral Point Architectural Driving Tour, not dated.
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1. "MINERS FREE PRESS," 7 AUGUST 1838; "HISTORY OF IOWA COUNTY," 1881, PP. 707-711.
From Mining to Farm Fields to Ethnic Communities: Buildings and Landscapes of Southwestern Wisconsin.
Ed. Anna Vemer Andrzejewski , Arnold R. Alanen and Sarah Fayen Scarlett for “Nature + City: Vernacular Buildings and Landscapes of the Upper Midwest,” 2012 Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) in Madison, Wisconsin.
Perrin, Richard W. E., Historic Wisconsin Architecture, First Revised Edition (Milwaukee, 1976). |