Property Record
1817 W NATIONAL AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Fred J. Borgwardt Funeral Home |
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| Other Name: | BORGWARDT FUNERAL HOME |
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| Reference Number: | 31798 |
| Location (Address): | 1817 W NATIONAL AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1923 |
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| Survey Date: | 198520212021 |
| Historic Use: | funeral home |
| Architectural Style: | Exotic Revivals |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Albert J. Peteling, architect |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. The Borgwardt Funeral Home was constructed in 1923 in an Egyptian Revival style. The overall broad, boxy form of the building and its red tiled roof suggests the Mediterranean Revival style; however, the prevalence of Egyptian Revival stylistic elements renders the house a distinct example of the latter style (houses constructed in the Egyptian Revival style commonly utilized building forms in keeping with the popular styles of the period with Egyptian Revival columns and other decorative elements applied to this). The building is rectangular in plan with a concrete foundation, brick walls, and a ceramic-tiled hipped roof. Additional character-defining features include Egyptian style columns at the front porch, an Egyptian front door surround that features a winged sun motif within a flared entablature, stone pilaster caps featuring Egyptian ornamentation between windows along the front elevation, cavetto cornices with copper gutters below the eaves of each building mass, multi-over-one windows along the front elevation, and stone sills below all windows (grouped or paired windows share a single stone sill while singly-placed windows feature individual sills). |
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| Bibliographic References: | Kerstein, n.p. Architect: building permit #6830 (April 2, 1923) |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |