Property Record
2504 FOREST HOME AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | JOHN LAYTON HOUSE HOTEL |
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| Reference Number: | 32184 |
| Location (Address): | 2504 FOREST HOME AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1848 |
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| Survey Date: | 1980 |
| Historic Use: | lodging-hotel |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | JOHN RAGUE |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Originally a 'halfway house' located along the stage road connecting Janesville and Milwaukee. Many grain dealers stayed here. Layton and his son Frederick served as the proprietors of the inn. "Numbering among the south side's oldest extant buildings is this brick structure, until lately adjoined by Dooley-Twelmeyer Furs. Originally a hotel on what was then the Janesville Plank Road, it was erected for English-born John Layton, who, assisted by his son Frederick, served for a time as its proprietor." Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969. |
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| Bibliographic References: | BUILT IN MILWAUKEE, LANDSCAPE RESEARCH, Pgs. 33 & 139. Zimmermann, The Past in Our Present, v. 1, pp. 8-9. Pagel, p. 33. Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |