Property Record
906 GILLETTE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Fire Station #4 |
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| Other Name: | La Crosse City Fire Station No. 4 |
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| Reference Number: | 33409 |
| Location (Address): | 906 GILLETTE ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1940 |
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| Survey Date: | 199620162019 |
| Historic Use: | fire house |
| Architectural Style: | Other Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | J. Mandor Matson |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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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, State Historic Preservation Office. Hip roofed fire house with wall and roof dormers, six over six windows and north frame porch with arched long windows. Intersecting hip roofs; concrete trim with pressed design freize under eaves; flat arched windows with six over six lights; front roof dormer and north wall dormer; enclosed north porch with multi-paned segmental arched large windows; large west service door. Good example of civic architecture - the earliest fire station still functioning and the only station exhibiting the influence of historic styles. First appears at this address in the 1941 City Directory. Prior to this, the fire station was located at 1546 Liberty. Constructed by Peter Nelson and Son. 2019: "Built in 1940, Fire Station NO. 4 is a 61 x 54 foot eclectic/Tudor style building, designed to blend into the residential neighborhood which surrounds it. It is a two story brick building in a rectangular plan, with Lshaped hipped roof, with hipped/flat roof inside the ell to make the rectangular plan. The pedestrian entrance to the building is on the north façade, facing Gillette Street, with a one story, flat roofed porch-like entrance, which is covered in a stucco material, featuring a centered, segmental arched doorway with multi-light transom and sidelights. Three-part, multi-light segmental arch windows flank either side of the doorway, and similar windows are on either side of the porch segment. A hipped roof dormer accents the window above the porch. The truck entrance is on the side, facing Liberty Street, features a large, segmental arch garage door doorway with cement accenting the segmental arch, small windows lined along the upper part of the arch, and a hipped dormer window set into the hipped roof above the garage doorway. The south façade features four large multilight windows on the first floor, and two hipped dormer windows in the hipped roof." |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) La Crosse City Directory, 1904-1962. (B) "How New Station Will Look," newspaper clipping, c. 1940, on file in the Fire Department newspaper clipping files of the LaCrosse Public Library, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. (C) La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press, 18 August 1940, 31 December 1940, 7 February 1941. (D) La Crosse Tribune, 26 August 1940, 21 February 1941. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |