| 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 State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. C IN THE PHOTO CODES IS SHORT FOR CW.
Original cost $4,500;1981 alt. cost $1,500. Note: House apparently under construction by time deeded to Hattie Riesen on Jan 5., 1914. (Deeds 333:354)
Hubert and Hattie Riesen, orig. owners (1914-1919)
Much of the detail of this bungalow is now hidden by overgrown evergreens which obscure the Grant Boulevard facade. The building is a one-story, rectangular brick building with an entry sun porch at the south end of the facade. Hip roofs cover both the house and the sun porch. The south elevation, visible from West Meinecke Street, has a small, shed-roofed, shingled dormer and a shallow bay with a large three-part window.
Hattie Riesen purchased this property from the Boulevard Park Land Company on January 5, 1919. Construction permits seem to indicate that a house was already standing on the lot when she bought it, built between August and November of 1913, although the permits may apply to a different property. Those persons shown living in the house were bricklayer Harley Riesen and Hubert Riesen, president of the Riesen & Wilke Company, mason contractors. Hubert lived in the house through 1918, and on February 10, 1919 Hattie Riesen sold it to Philip Reisweber on land contract and then deeded to the property to him and his wife, Anna, on March 17, 1921. Reisweber was the superintendent of the A. H. Weinbrenner Company. He was a widower by the early 1940s, and around 1941 apparently married his neighbor, widow Elizabeth Scholl, and moved to her house at 2424 North Grant Boulevard. Scholl's deceased husband has also been an employee of the Weinbrenner Company. |
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