Property Record
340 W PROSPECT AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Joseph and Henrietta Plank House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 40369 |
| Location (Address): | 340 W PROSPECT AVE |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | Appleton |
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| Year Built: | 1910 |
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| Survey Date: | 1991 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Prairie School |
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| Wall Material: | Rock-Faced Concrete Block |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | West Prospect Avenue Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 8/24/2001 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 4/20/2001 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' (West Prospect Avenue Historic District) 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 State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. This structure contributes to the significance of the West Prospect Avenue Historic District under Criterion C as an excellent example of a large Prairie style house exhibiting the essential characteristics of the style including banded windows, a low hip roof with wide soffits and the somewhat unusual combination of rock-faced concrete block on the first story and a high-waisted stuccoed second story. This is one of the few Prairie style houses in Appleton. Garage. From "Appleton's Historic Old Third Ward Walking Tour" pamphlet, revised 2014 (www.focol.org/oldthirdward): "Inventor Joseph Plank, a Wisconsin native, specialized in artistic paper watermarking and patented dandy rolls used in the industry world-wide. He was a valuable witness in court cases involving paper documents. Many homes on the southeast end of Prospect were built in the 1930s for Plank descendants, causing the area to be known as Plank Row." |
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| Bibliographic References: | Kimberly, Combined Locks, Little Chute Villager 5/17/2001. Appleton Post Crescent 5/14/2001. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |