Property Record
2705 N SHEPARD AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MAJOR JAMES SAWYER HOUSE |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 41946 |
| Location (Address): | 2705 N SHEPARD AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1895 |
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| Survey Date: | 1980 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Neoclassical/Beaux Arts |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | WILLIAM D. KIMBALL |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Prospect Hill Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 3/1/2005 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 11/15/2004 |
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| Additional Information: | DIBBINK WAS THE BUILDER. The house documents an early stage of the Colonial Revival movement. The nation's 1876 centennial celebration and 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition nurtured popular interest in classical antiquity and in America's colonial origins. In the 1880s and 1890s, American builders and architects incorporated classically inspired, colonial style cliches in homage to this trend The Sawyer House is emblematic of this fad, plastered with colonial details, yet lacking "correct" colonial massing or proportioning. The Sawyer House, for its part, resembles nothing so much as a large box with vaguely colonial windows and a vaguely colonial portico tacked on. After 1900, architects paid closer attention to colonial-style proportioning, and designed historically accurate copies of colonial buildings. |
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| Bibliographic References: | MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TOUR: NORTH POINT, CITY OF MILWAUKEE DEPARTMENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT, 1994. Perrin, p. 89. Zimmermann, The Past in Our Present, v. 1, 19-20. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |