Property Record
15 SHAKE RAG ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | JONATHAN CARPENTER HOUSE |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 61883 |
| Location (Address): | 15 SHAKE RAG ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1840 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Mineral Point Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/30/1971 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | THIS ONE-STORY SIDE GABLED HOUSE, WHICH WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 1840S (SEE BIB. REF. A), FEATURES AN L-SHAPED PLAN CONDIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, A STONE EXTERIOR, A STONE AND WOOD TRIM AND A SHINGLED, MULTI-GABLED ROOF. AN ADDITION WAS BUILT BETWEEN 1915 AND 1929 (SEE BIB. REF. B); THE FOUNDATION AND EXTERIOR WALLS OF THIS ADDITION ARE MADE OF RUSTICATED CONCRETE BLOCK. ALSO PRESENT IN THE EXTERIOR FABRIC OF THIS RESIDENCE IS CONCRETE AGGREGATE. SIX-OVER-SIX WINDOWS ARE ADORNED WITH STONE LINTELS AND SILLS. SEVERAL ALTERATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN A DETRIMENT TO THE OVERALL GOOD CONDITION OF THE HOUSE. THIS BUILDING WAS KNOWN HISTORICALLY AS THE JONATHAN CARPENTER HOUSE, THE PHILLIP EDEN HOUSE, AND THE BRIDGET NEVINS HOUSE. (SEE BIB. REF. A). JONATHAN CARPENTER WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DWELLING FROM C. 1843 TO 1846; PHILLIP EDEN, FROM C. 1847 TO 1850; AND BRIDGET NEVINS, FROM C. 1853 TO 1871. (SEE BIB. REF. A). THIS STRUCTURE WAS USED AS A DUPLEX DWELLING IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES. (SEE BIB. REF. C). THE BUILDING WAS LOCALLY DESIGNATED IN 1972 AND IS PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT. 2012- "The original, stone, portion of this house was built by Jonathan Carpenter who was born in St. Germans, Cornwall in 1799 and emigrated to the United States in 1841 aboard the Royal Adelaide, with his wife and their first four children. Apparently the family came tio the Lead Region via Missouri; census records list a fifth child, Eliza, as born in that state in 1841. Their sixth child, Caroline, was born in Wisconsin in 1843. After a few years in Mineral Point, the Carpenters moved to Dodgeville where Jonathan Carpenter was a wagon maker; a family story says that he built the first wagons for Mineral Pointers who went to California for the gold rush. Jonathan himself went to the gold rush in 1851, by steamer, via New Orleans. Phillip Eden owned the house by 1851. eden and his wife, Jane, emigrated from Cornwall to Galena, IL in 1840; they were the advance guard for Jane's family who came to Mineral Point a year later. Passenger lists for the Royal Adelaide show Samuel Jenkin and his wife Jane and six of their children were aboard, as was another daughter, Elizabeth, her husband, William Uren, and their two children." -from "A Field Guide to Mineral Point" by Nancy Pfotenhauer of the Mineral Point Historical Society, 1st Edition, 2012, Little Creek Press. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 151: Dodgeville To Belmont.” WHS project number 92-0510IA/LT. October 1993. Prepared by Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center (GLARC). A. MINERAL POINT TAX RECORDS, 1840-1910; SANBORN MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI. (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1884-1929). B. SANBORN MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI. (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1915, 1929). C. SANBORN MAP, CITY OF MINERAL POINT, WI. (NEW YORK: SANBORN MAP CO., 1889-1929). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |