Property Record
25 SHAKE RAG ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | RALPH GOLDSWORTHY COTTAGE |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 61885 |
| Location (Address): | 25 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: | Federal |
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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: | BUILT BEFORE 1840 (SEE BIB. REF. A), THIS ONE STORY FEDERAL STYLED HOUSE FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, AN UNSPECIFIED STONE EXTERIOR, A STONE AND WOOD TRIM, AND A SHINGLED, GABLE ROOF. THE SLOPE OF THE ROOF DENOTES A SALTBOX SHAPE. THE FACADE IS MADE OF DRESSED STONE WHILE THE SIDE AND REAR WALLS ARE MADE OF ROUGH STONE. A FULL-LENGHT, OPEN DESIGNED WOOD PORCH APPEARS AT THE FRONT. TWELVE-OVER-EIGHT LIGHTS DISTINGUISH THE FRONT WINDOWS. THIS RESIDENCE IS IN GOOD CONDITION. INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DWELLING AND THE DATES OF THEIR ASSOCIATION INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: RALPH GOLDSWORTHY, FROM C. 1840 TO 1890 (ESTATE); AND MRS. M. GOLDSWORTHY, FROM C. 1844 TO 1854. (SEE BIB. REF. A). THE RALPH GOLDSWORTHY HOUSE WAS DESIGNATED LOCALLY IN 1972 AND IS PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT. 2012- "Built before 1840 by Ralph Goldsworthy, one of the first Cornish miners to arrive in the Lead Region. Goldsworthy's naturalization papers are dated October, 1837, indicating he arrived in the United States by 1832, if not earlier. From 1802 until 1868, a person could become a citizen of the United States if they had lived in a state for one year and in the country for five years. Goldworthy was one of five brothers who emigrated from Cambourne, Cornwall, coming to Mineral Point and Linden via Canada and Pottsville, PA. Ralph Goldsworthy patented (claimed) three lots along Shake Rag: the one on which his cottage stands and the two just to the north. Ralph Goldsworthy, with other miners who had been in Pottsville, was active in the formation of the Odd Fellow lodge in Mineral Point, the first IOOF lodge formed west of the Allegheny mountains. He and his son Matthew were two of the many Mineral Pointers who went to California for the gold rush in 1850. This cottage was extensively repaired and restored in the 1960s and christened "The Welsh House" by Al and Edie Felly, who also developed the crafts and garden center in Shake Rag Valley just across Shake Rag Steet." -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 REOCRDS, 1840-1910; TAYLOR AND WILLITS, CITY OF MINERAL POINT [MAP], (CHICAGO: TAYLOR AND WILLITS PUBLISHING CO., 1871). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |