Property Record
916-920 KING ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Thomas H. Spence House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 33033 |
| Location (Address): | 916-920 KING ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1891 |
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| Additions: | 1945 |
| Survey Date: | 1996 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Asphalt |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | 10th and Cass Streets Neighborhood Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/13/2000 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 7/14/2000 |
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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, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. Spence was a wholesale druggist. Queen Anne building with scalloped shingles in the gables and in the bay windows, a small porch in the front gable, corner gable in the northeast corner, bargeboard and a porch in the front. Multi-gabled: pedimented two-story west side gable with chamfered corners on lower story gabled bay projection to the front with balustraded open porch in gable end, and rectangular two-story gabled bay with chamfered corners on the lower story on the east side. Two story rectangular bay with gable roof on west corner; double leafed entrance door with glass panels; two-story hip roofed front bay window with bands of decorative shingles; brackets under the eaves; screened front porch. Converted to apartments in 1945. 2015- "The Thomas Spence House has architectural elements seen in Queen Anne style homes built late in the 19th century. The multi-gabled asymmetrical mass with projecting and recessed bays, narrow clapboard siding, scalloped cladding, open porches and towering decarative chimney are all consistent with this style. The residence was converted to apartments in 1945. In 1874 Thomas H. Spence founded a pharmacy that became the Spence-McCord Drug Company. The headquarters were on Front Street near present day Spence Park. The park was established in 1898 on La Crosses's primary steamboat landing and later merged with Riverside Park." -"La Crosse, Wisconsin: 10th & Cass Residential Historic District Tour", Prepared by Eric J. Wheeler, (2015). |
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| Bibliographic References: | LaCrosse, Wisconsin Illustrated, 1891. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |