Property Record
3056 N MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Ludwig and Blanche Kahn House |
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| Reference Number: | 51533 |
| Location (Address): | 3056 N MAIN ST |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | Racine |
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| Year Built: | 1956 |
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| Survey Date: | 2008 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Usonian |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | John Randal McDonald |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The Kahn's lived here at least until 1993. 2008- This is a one-story, hip roof, irregular-plan house. windows are fixed and awning. House has a low-pitched hip roof with overhanging eaves; massive interior brick chimney; clerestory windows, some with circular detail repeated near door and at roofline; attached flat roof carport; concrete sills; inset entryway; and wood cantilevered detail on facade below clerestory windows. Date of construction acquired from city records. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Building Permit No. 46-499, issued 6/6/56. City Hall, Racine, Wisconsin. (B) "John Randal McDonald, Architect, Completed Projects, 1950-1960." Archives of the Racine County Historical Society and Museum, Racine, Wisconsin. (C) Racine City Directories, 1956-1993. Historic Resources Survey, City of Racine. Mead & Hunt, Inc. June 2008. Preservation Racine News, Spring 2019, Volume 14. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |