Property Record
STATE HIGHWAY 96
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Reference Number: | 47164 |
| Location (Address): | STATE HIGHWAY 96 |
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| County: | Brown |
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| Township/Village: | Lawrence |
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| Town: | 22 |
| Range: | 19 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 0 |
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| Survey Date: | 1989 |
| Historic Use: | nursing home/sanitarium |
| Architectural Style: | Spanish/Mediterranean Styles |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
| Demolished Date: | 1992 |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Photo code #1: FCS 10/8, 9. This multistory institutional building stands on a hillside site which affords a broad view of a bend of the Fox River. There is a four-story, rectangular main block and, downhill, a two-story kitchen and garage wing fronted by an array of fire-darkened cement piers and debris. The main building has a ground story clad with ashlar stone and upper walls of brick trimmed with stone. The upstream facade features a center pavilion with a three-story portico projecting beyond buttressed towers and a fifth story surmounted by an openwork belvedere. Round arches in the five bays of the portico ground story have fragmentary window frames. The quoin-trimmed second story has five bays of triple windows with transoms, stone corner blocks, and stone mullions; like all other windows in the heavily vandalized building, they lack most of their frames and all of their glass. Five bays of third-story triple windows without transoms share a stone sill course. The five bays of the pavilion's fourth story have triple windows without transoms and a shared lintel course. The recessed fifth story has only three bays of triple windows and a damaged metal cornice. The facades of the flanking towers have round-arched ground-story windows, second and third-story triple windows without transoms, and round-arched triple windows in the fourth story. The tower parapets are ornamented by square stone panels set on point between quoined buttress caps. The one-story, modillion-corniced belvedere has recessed panels in each face with pairs of round arches springing from stone colonettes. The eight bays of the building's wings are defined by brick buttresses rising from the water table. There are single ground-story windows and three stories of double windows with transoms. The wings are ornamented by fourth-story stone escutcheons and stone string and trim courses on the parapetted cornice masking the flat roof. The wings terminate in end pavilions with gabled parapets with corbelled, dentilled cornices. The visible, east endwall has three bays of windows without transoms, with triple windows flanking a quintuple center window. Right of the east wall, a tall, square brick smokestack with stone quoins abuts the rear of the building. |
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| Bibliographic References: | . |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |