Property Record
6261 NESBITT RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | JOHN MANN HOUSE |
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| Other Name: | QUIVEY'S GROVE |
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| Reference Number: | 4631 |
| Location (Address): | 6261 NESBITT RD |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Fitchburg |
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| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 6 |
| Range: | 9 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 7 |
| Quarter Section: | NW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SE |
| Year Built: | 1856 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 19772014 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Sandstone |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Mann, John, House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/8/1982 |
| 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 Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. RESTORED IN 1980. Set in a grove of walnut trees, the former John Mann House is one of the finest sandstone farmhouses in Dane County. Mann came to Wisconsin from Ostego County, New York, in 1850 and for a time operated a livery service in Madison. In 1856, he bought this 130-acre farm and erected a stately Italianate house made of sandstone from a neighbor's quarry, a stone barn, and two stone outbuildings. The house consists of a two-story cube with a one-and-one-half-story wing. Unusually tall windows pierce the handsome, 18-inch-thick masonry walls, giving the house a vertical emphasis, and attic windows light the wing. Scroll brackets and pendants embellish the wide overhang of the hipped roof. Inside, on the first floor of the house, the original hemlock floors and the maple banister and newel post have been preserved. In the barn, both the double-door entry and the heavy hand-hewn structural timbers are original as well. The house now serves as a restaurant, and the stone barn has been converted into a taproom. Resources associated with the John Mann House include the house (#4631), barn (#227875), shed (#227876), small animal building (#227877), and two privies (#227878 and #227879). |
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| Bibliographic References: | WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL 1/15/1995. “Architecture and History Survey: USH 18/151 (Verona Rd.)” WHS project number 01-0904/DA. April 2014. Prepared by Megan Daniels. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |