Property Record
200 LAKEWOOD BLVD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | ROBERT O. & JUNE MCLEAN HOUSE #2 |
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| Reference Number: | 5424 |
| Location (Address): | 200 LAKEWOOD BLVD |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Maple Bluff |
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| Year Built: | 1949 |
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| Survey Date: | 1979 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Wood |
| Architect: | W.V.KAESER |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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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. In a career extending from the Great Depression through the 1960s, Kaeser became one of the Madison area's most important modern architects. Worked in a personal expression of Frank Lloyd Wright's organicism, he approached each project with sensitivity to a building's site, taking advantage of topography and indigenous materials to create houses that seem to grow naturally out of the earth. He was also a proponent of passive solar design and published a book entitled Your Solar House in 1946. This passive solar house has an L-shaped plan. The south facade opens to the sunlight with its large expanses of Thermopane glass, while the north-facing wall lacks windows, conserving heat to warm the house in winter. Deciduous elm trees screen excessive summer sun. Kaeser drew on Wright's geometry to created a modern, livable design for this house. An angular wall of limestone juts out from the glass plane of the south facade, creating a dramatic intersection of sloping roofs. As with Wright’s Jacobs House II, Kaeser brought the outside indoors by using the same stone for the structural piers and the fireplace inside that he employed to construct the exterior walls. Similarly, he extended a pebble garden beyond the glass wall into the living space, blurring the boundary between the house and its surroundings. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |