Property Record
1504 KING ST
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | Dr. Gunnar Gundersen House |
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Contributing: | Yes |
Reference Number: | 33057 |
Location (Address): | 1504 KING ST |
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County: | La Crosse |
City: | La Crosse |
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Year Built: | 1927 |
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Survey Date: | 1996 |
Historic Use: | house |
Architectural Style: | English Revival Styles |
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Wall Material: | Stucco |
Architect: | Otto Merman and H. Skogstad |
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Demolished?: | No |
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National/State Register Listing Name: | Cass and King Street Residential Historic District |
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National Register Listing Date: | 11/7/1997 |
State Register Listing Date: | 4/22/1997 |
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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. |
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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. |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |