Property Record
518 N MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | EUGENE KIRCHNER/FICHTELSCHERER HOUSE |
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| Reference Number: | 46384 |
| Location (Address): | 518 N MAIN ST |
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| County: | Dodge |
| City: | Mayville |
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| Year Built: | 1901 |
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| Additions: | 1928 |
| Survey Date: | 2002 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Bungalow |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Rising from a rusticated concrete block foundation, this one-story bungalow is sheathed with narrow clapboard and is topped with a hipped roof which extends to top the enclosed porch. A hipped roof dormer rises from the roof along both the primary (west) and north facades. Windows of the porch and dormers are period, leaded glass examples, while the transom features diamond-paned openings. Remaining windows are one-over-one-light, double-hung sashes. Tax records indicate that this house was built in circa 1900 and the original owner was Franz Fichtelscherer. By the following year, the home was in the possession of Eugene Kirchner, who was employed as the chief plant engineer with the Northwestern Iron Company. He owned the house from approximately 1901 to 1906. By 1908, the home was in the possession of Irving M. Bean, the superintendent of the Northwestern Iron Works; he occupied the home until the mid-1930s. The front porch was reportedly added in 1928. Thereafter, the home was occupied by R. Alger & Laura Dake, who passed it on to their daughter Dorothy and her husband Ernst Hesse. By the late 1950s, Thomas Beck had purchased the home. "This home has ties to Mayville's iron industry. Built in 1901, it's first owner was Eugene Kirchner, the chief plant engineer. Later I. McCollough Bean, Assistance Superintendent of Northwest Iron Co., lived here. He deeded it to the company in 1909. A front porch added in 1928 covers the original facade." "MEANDERING THROUGH MAYVILLE", WOMEN'S SERVICE LEAGUE, 1995. |
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| Bibliographic References: | "MEANDERING THROUGH MAYVILLE", WOMEN'S SERVICE LEAGUE, 1995. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |