Property Record
2601 N WAHL AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | WILLIAM F. LUICK HOUSE |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 41940 |
| Location (Address): | 2601 N WAHL AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1922 |
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| Survey Date: | 1977 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | English Revival Styles |
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| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
| Architect: | BRUST AND RICHARD PHILIPP |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | North Point North Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 3/24/2000 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 7/16/1999 |
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| Additional Information: | Ice-cream magnate William Luick, seeking a place where he could retire, hired the most skilled craftsmen available to handcraft this little house on-site. He retained architect Richard Philipp to produce a scholarly and authentic period design of a Neo-Tudor house in the Cotswold style. To make room for his house in a built-up neighborhood, Luick moved an older house off the lot to the northeast corner of Belleview and Terrace Avenues, where it still stands today. A Cotswold-inspired stone drywall surrounds the home capped by a pointed soldier course of hand-cut limestone slabs. This picturesque Neo-Tudor house design borrows from traditional stone houses found in the Cotswold Hills of rural southwestern England. Architect Philipp bracketed the random ashlar limestone entrance portal with gable and a turret wings, each with divided light, window bays set into limestone mullions. The Cotswold-style slate roof has individual slates hand-laid in a careful gradation of size and thickness, likened to the delicate ordering of a bird's feathers. The Luick House's interior finish is equally impressive, with hand-carved wood paneling, hand-blown leaded-glass windows, unique wrought-iron light fixtures, and stone floors. |
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| Bibliographic References: | REXFORD NEWCOMB, "CRAFTSMANSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE," WESTERN ARCHITECT, vol. 34, #7, 7/1925, P. 71FF. MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TOUR: NORTH POINT, CITY OF MILWAUKEE DEPARTMENT OF CITY DVELOPMENT, 1994. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |