1504 KING ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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1504 KING ST

Architecture and History Inventory
1504 KING ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Dr. Gunnar Gundersen House
Other Name:
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:33057
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):1504 KING ST
County:La Crosse
City:La Crosse
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1927
Additions:
Survey Date:1996
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:English Revival Styles
Structural System:
Wall Material:Stucco
Architect: Otto Merman and H. Skogstad
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: Cass and King Street Residential Historic District
National Register Listing Date:11/7/1997
State Register Listing Date:4/22/1997
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
Additional Information:Slate shingled two-story house with gable roofs, multiple roof dormers, chimney pots, multi-paned windows, and a gabled roofed stone entrance porch with round arched door. Intersecting gable roofs; multiple gable roofed wall dormers; multi-paned rectangular windows; one-bay gable roofed enclosed entrance with arched door; three side front bay window; elaborate chimney pots; jerkin-head gable roof on east wing; screened porch at rear. Vaguely suggesting past historic styles, the Gunderson House constructed in 1929-1930, represents the late eclectic historic influenced architecture in the Tudor/Elizabethan Mode as well as the work of the local architects, Merman and Skogstad in La Crosse. The Gundersons are of Gunderson Clinic fame. Adolph Gunderson, brother of Gunner, lived across the street, 1509 King.
Bibliographic References:(A) Blue Print K-550, Otto Merman Blue print Collection, ARC Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. (B) Margaret Merman Holly, Interview with the author, 1977. A. Bentley and Merman Commission Records, UW-La Crosse, ARC. B. La Crosse City Water Records, La Crosse Public Library, Archives. C. City Directories.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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