Property Record
N 895 NEBRASKA ROW
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 27332 |
| Location (Address): | N 895 NEBRASKA ROW |
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| County: | Ashland |
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| Township/Village: | La Pointe |
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| Town: | 50 |
| Range: | 3 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 30 |
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| Year Built: | 1904 |
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| Survey Date: | 1992 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Board and Batten |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | BUILT by local carpenters. Historical Background Colonel Frederick Woods had this cottage built as a wedding present for his daughter Helen and her family in 1904.[A, B] Historical Significance This house contributes to the local significance of the Nebraska Row Historic District in the area of Social History under Criterion A of the National Register of Historic Places. It physically represents the life ways of a class of people able to maintain two distinct residences. In general, women and children took up residence for the entire summer while husbands visited for weekends and a few vacation weeks. This house, and Nebraska Row in general, reflects the phenomenon of vactioning with an extended circle of family and friends from one's primary business and social environment, in this case, Lincoln, Nebraska. Description This front gabled house features an asphalt-clad roof with a shed dormer and a one story screened/enclosed porch under an asphalt clad hip roof. The walls are board and batten, unique to this house on Nebraska Row. Fenestration is irregular and features six-over-six double-hung wood sash on the first story, some high horizontal windows in the end section of the porch, and two-over-one double-hung wood sash on the second story. Exposed windows are flanked by functional wood shutters. The house rests on wood piers. Architectural Significance This house contributes to the locally significant Nebraska Row Historic District under Criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places as a representative example of the large summer residences constructed on Madeline Island from circa 1900 through the 1920s for a well-to-do extended circle of family and friends from Nebraska. |
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| Bibliographic References: | [A] Nancy O'Brien, 26 August, 1993, Nebraska Row tour with Rebecca Sample Bernstein and Tricia L. Canaday, Madeline Island. [B] Helen Woods Haecker "Early History of Woods Family at Madeline Island," typed manuscript, September 1957. SHE NOTED THE DATE OF CONSTRUCTION. [C] George Haeacker, response to Architectural Survey Questionnaire, 19 September, 1992. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |