Property Record
211-213 AVON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Harvey Peck House |
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| Reference Number: | 32902 |
| Location (Address): | 211-213 AVON ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1872 |
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| Survey Date: | 19962016 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Wood Shingle |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Two-story hip roofed house with front cross gable, projecting window heads and octagonal living room. Variety of window ornamentation on facade including triangular pediment shaped projecting window head and round arched side windows in upper story and projecting cornices on first story windows; bracketed door hood; two over two windows; three sided two-story bay on south side (octagonal interior room); hip roofed rear addition. Moved to site from 136 South 8th Strret, property owned by Wesley Methodist Church. Harvey J. Peck built this house in 1873 at 136 South 8th Street. Peck was an insurance agent who had settled in La Crosse in 1851. He later became a clerk in the United State Court and a real estate agent. Peck died in 1895. He was no relation to George Peck whose house this is often thought to be. Constructed in 1872 with the entrance in the street facing gable end of the house, this frame (now sided) house has a broad truncated hip roof once topped by a widow's walk. Two round arched windows and a triangular pediment shaped window head in the upper story of the facade and projecting window cornices on the lower story ornament this 19th century Victorian house originally influenced by the Italianate style popular during the period. 2016 UPDATE - THIS HOUSE IS MOSTLY INTACT FROM WHEN IT WAS SURVEYED IN 1996, WITH INTACT SHINGLE SIDING AND ARCHED SECOND STORY WINDOWS. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) La Crosse City Tax Records (1865-1875). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |