Property Record
209 WEST AVE S
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Lucius Colman House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 34677 |
| Location (Address): | 209 WEST AVE S |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1883 |
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| Survey Date: | 19962019 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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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: | Pedimented gable ends; stick style ornament in front gable with small balcony under the gable windows; chamfered corners on front gable with bracketed pent roof and band of decorative shingles encircles house at second floor level; projecting gable roofed bay on north side with oriel window in the gable and two-story gable roofed bay with attached intersecting gable roofed porte cochere; eyelid roof dormer window; north rectangular bay window with decorative shingle roof; circular drive; round corner bay window on north front corner. Constructed in 1883-1884, the Colman House is one of thes earliest significant examples of the early mode of the Victorian Queen Anne style in the city. L.C. Colman, a resident of La Crosse since 1855, built this house between 1884 and 1888. Colman, the son of Charles Lucius Colman, was manager of the C.L. Colman Lumber Co. and secretary of the William Listman Mill Co., when he built this house. 1996- "This large, two-and-one-half story, clapboard house features numerous characteristics of the Victorian Queen Anne style. Attributes include the following: pedimented gable ends with both shingle work and dentil trim as well as decorative half-timbering; an eyebrow dormer; a pent roof overhang with shingle work between the first and second levels; a porte-cochere with turned supports and spindlework; a turret; and oriel windows. This structure is known to have been built in 1883-1884, by Lucius C. Colman, manager of the C. L. Colman Lumber Company." 2019: The house has a new roof; third-story windows above the balconet appear to have been replaced. All other decorative elements remain intact. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) C.W. Butterfield, History of La Crosse County (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, Reprint: 1977), p. 747. (B) Dr. L. Crocker, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. (C) La Crosse City Directory, 1884-1889. (D) La Crosse Morning Chronicle 1 January 1885 and 8 June 1884, 7 September 1884. (E) Betsy Davis' the Lucius Colman House, unpublished paper, A.R.C. Murphy Libarary, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. (C) Tax rolls. City directories. (F) La Crosse Chronicle, 7 November 1883, 24 April 1884. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |