Property Record
1212 PLEASANT HILL RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Gaute Ingebretson loft house |
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| Other Name: | |
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| Reference Number: | 4500 |
| Location (Address): | 1212 PLEASANT HILL RD |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Dunkirk |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 5 |
| Range: | 11 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 11 |
| Quarter Section: | NW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1844 |
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| Additions: | C. 1940 |
| Survey Date: | 1979 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Log |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Ingebretson, Gaute, Loft House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 3/13/1987 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| 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. Film roll 310 is filed with the National Register negatives. Outstanding sval house 16'4" wide by 20' long; 1 1/2 story of hewn oak logs to gable peak; door on east gable end under sval; ridgepole and purlins span upper story; rafters of poles peeled, lapped and nailed at peak; four hewn hardwood joists span first floor ceiling between gable ends; interior wall surfaces "picked" with ax as ground-interior all plastered and painted at one time; two-panel handbuilt front door, attic trapdoor made with dovetail key stiffeners; brick chimney built atop east log wall next to door; roof sheating sawn with sash mill; early application of clapboard siding (5") over logs at early date (little weathering); sval area sill timbers not continuous with house base seperate, but appear installed at time of construction; sval framework of sash sawn 4x4 oak, cut to 1 1/2" thickness where nailed to log faces; sval floor of 5" tongue and groove softwood planks; original west (rear, but road-facing) window 6 over 6 sash; second floor gable windows replaced; door and window openings on north and south walls changed over time-door opening on north wall very old (tread heavily worn) but maybe original. Present window on south wall once door-sized but partially filled; cupboard built in wall next to this window-logs cut out, hole covered with boards on outside; foundation of large igneous boulders at corners, later in-filling of sedimentary rocks in between; old staircase of sash-sawn lumber in sval intact, but apparently moved from parallel to perpindicular configuration with front (east) wall; sheathing that once enclosed sval replaced with modern lumber ca. 1940. |
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| Bibliographic References: | WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL 6/12/1994, HOME SECTION. MADISON TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION, INC. NEWSLETTER, FEBRUARY, 1996. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 1C, 4/19/1996. STOUGHTON COURIER HUB 4/18/1996. MADISON TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION, INC. NEWSLETTER, SUMMER, 1996. STOUGHTON COURIER HUB 6/27/1996. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |