Property Record
7125 COUNTY HIGHWAY K
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church - church |
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| Other Name: | St.Peter's Roman Catholic Church |
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| Reference Number: | 4929 |
| Location (Address): | 7125 COUNTY HIGHWAY K |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Springfield |
| Unincorporated Community: | ASHTON |
| Town: | 8 |
| Range: | 8 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 27 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NW |
| Year Built: | 1901 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1977 |
| Historic Use: | house of worship |
| Architectural Style: | Late Gothic Revival |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | Anton Dohman |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/23/1980 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: |
| Additional Information: | A 'site file' (St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church) 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, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. Set amidst picturesque, rolling farmland, St. Peter’s lofty spire can be seen for miles around. Pious German Catholics, who settled this area in the late 1840s and 1850s, erected the handsome Gothic Revival church a half-century later. Its Milwaukee architect designed churches throughout Wisconsin and the Great Plains. The Gothic-arched entry at the base of the steeple--which dominates the building--directs the eye upward to a stained-glass rose window, thence to a triplet of lancet windows, a pointed-arched belfry window covered with louvers, and finally the spire. The church’s buttressed walls are of rock-faced limestone, quarried at local farms. Coming through the recessed main entrance and passing through the narthex, parishioners entered the nave to face a tall vaulted apse at the far end. The ornate main altar is carved of butternut; its pinnacled design reverberates in smaller altars to each side. A delicate mural in the spandrels above depicts Christ and his disciples. Other buildings associated with this record include: the school/convent (AHI #12547), rectory (AHI #12548), and sculpture (AHI #12549). POINTED ARCHED WINDOWS AND DOORS. ROSE WINDOW IN STEEPLE W/STEEPLY PITCHED PAVILION ROOF. |
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| Bibliographic References: | THE DATE OF CONSTRUCTION CAME FROM THE NR NOMINATION. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |