Property Record
25 N PARK AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | David Molitor House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 54753 |
| Location (Address): | 25 N PARK AVE |
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| County: | Fond du Lac |
| City: | Fond du Lac |
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| Year Built: | 1890 |
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| Survey Date: | 1988 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | East Division Street - Sheboygan Street Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 4/17/2010 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/19/2010 |
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| Additional Information: | Photo code #2: 74FD-33/15,16. This two and one half story unusual Queen Anne house features a steeply pitched gable roof with projecting gable ends. Elaborately hooded windows decorate the upper stories of the building. Vinyl clapboard siding coveres the building and a stucco and wood half timber exterior seen on the building 15 years earlier. It is unclear if this covering was the original exterior of the house, or if it was added at a latyer date. The front porch has a limestone foundation and balustrade supporting Ionic columns. This house is a good example of an unusual variation of the Queen Anne style. This house was the home of David Molitor, a druggist, between 1901 and 1907. It was the home of Ernest and Katherine Smith between 1917 and 1942. Ernest Smith was a physician. Initial research indicates that the occupants of this house are not historically significant. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. City Directories for the City of Fond du Lac, on file at the Fond du Lac Public Library, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. b. Sanborn Perris Maps for the City of Fond du Lac, on file in the Archives of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. C. Maurice McKenna, Ed., Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Past and Present, Vol. II, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |