Property Record
1815 S ONEIDA ST
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Reference Number: | 38901 |
| Location (Address): | 1815 S ONEIDA ST |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | Appleton |
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| Year Built: | 1881 |
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| Survey Date: | 19912015 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Gabled Ell |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Garage. 2015: Rising from what appears to be a rusticated concrete block foundation, this two-and-one-half-story, gabled ell house is covered with clapboard siding and includes a one-story, gabled wing to the rear. A flat-roofed, Colonial Revival-style porch with heavy columnar suppmts resting upon rusticated concrete block piers and with a wooden balustrade extends across the home's entrance elevation. One-over-one-light, double-hung sash are somewhat regularly placed throughout the house; rear-wing examples are topped with a wooden surround with a gabled header, while the surrounds of the ell portion are rectangular and only slightly raised. Non-working shutters accent nearly all of the home's windows, while cloth awnings top the second-floor windows. Assessor’s records cite an 1881 date of construction for the home. The earliest known owner of the parcel (as of 1889) was that of Edward Witthuhn, was born in 1856. In 1877 he wed Wilhelmine “Minnie” Busse and they had five children. Minnie died in 1910 and, by 1920, Edward married divorcee Pauline (Henke) Dame. It is likely that the addition of the existing front porch dates to between 1910 and 1920. As of 1930, Pauline’s son George Dame, who owned his own retail shoe shop--Dame’s Foot Comfort--was still living with his mother and stepfather in the Oneida Street house, and his wife Catharina. As of his 1931 obituary, Edward, who had by then retired, was identified as having worked as a cabinet maker at Valley Iron Works in Appleton for thirty-five years. Pauline died in 1944 and George and his wife remained in the home until at least 1963. George died in 1976. The house is a largely vernacular house with a striking Colonial Revival-style porch addition. Despite the notable porch and clapboard siding, the house remains a modest gabled ell and does not offer the stylistic characteristics necessary for potential Register eligibility. A DOE is not needed. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Assessor’s records, City of Appleton, Available online at http://my.appleton.org, Accessed August 2015; C.M. Foote and W. S. Brown, Plat Book of Outagamie County, Wisconsin (Minneapolis: C.M. Foote & Co., 1889); Standard Atlas of Outagamie County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1917); U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930; Appleton City Directory, 1930; “George F. Witthuhn,” Obituary, Appleton Post-Crescent, 9 March 1931, 4/4; Birth, marriage and death dates gleaned from the Family Tree (includes Edward Witthuhn Family information), Maintained by Patrick Hammar, Available online at www.Ancestry.com, Accessed August 2015. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |