Property Record
2501 CASS ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Albert & Katherine Arenz House |
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| Reference Number: | 34127 |
| Location (Address): | 2501 CASS ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1918 |
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| Survey Date: | 1996 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Prairie School |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Otto Merman |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Design by Otto Merman in 1918, the Arenz House is an interesting combination of stucco, brick, dark trim, leaded glass casement windows, and half-timber ornamentation that vaguely suggests the English country cottage and that has the horizontal emphasis of the Prairie School, the Albert Arenz House is significant as a well preserved unusual early work by Otto Merman as a designer of the Prairie School house independent of Percy Bentley. At the time this house was built, Albert Arenz was a clerk in the Arenz Shoe Company store. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. La Crosse City Directory, 1917, 1918, 1919. B. Margaret Merman Holly, Interview with the author, 1977. C. Bentley-Merman bluesprint collection, ARC Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin La Crosse. (D) La Crosse City Water Records, La Crosse Public Library, Archives. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |