Property Record
1620-1630 N FARWELL AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | George W. Peck Row House |
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| Reference Number: | 75176 |
| Location (Address): | 1620-1630 N FARWELL AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1883 |
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| Additions: | 2002 |
| Survey Date: | 200419862010 |
| Historic Use: | row house/townhouse |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Peck, George W., Row House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 6/14/2016 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/19/2016 |
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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, Division of Historic Preservation. It suggests an earlier construction date (c. 1880) than reported by the Tax Program ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: This structure is an excellent example of 19th century row flats. Designed in the Queen Anne, it is one of the few definitive examples of the style in the city. Locally designated by the City of Milwaukee 16 June 1998. Previously surveyed 1986 with map code 34/17. Map name was LUQS 359. Milwaukee Connector Survey, Prepared by Heritage Research (2010). DOE prepared by Heritage Research (2010). This highly intact, six-unit, Queen Anne-style rowhouses has a first floor constructed of brick while the upper one-and-one-half stories are sheathed with various patterns of wooden shingles. The tan brick is enhanced with red corner brick and window surrounds. Meanwhile, the roof features multiple gables and two large, ornate chimneys. Fenestration generally consists of multiple-light over single-pane double-hung sashes. The subject rowhouse was built in 1883 for George W. Peck. Peck was born in New York in 1840 and moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin, as a boy. Peck began a career in journalism in the late 1860s and founded The Sun newspaper in La Crosse. Peck moved The Sun to Milwaukee in 1878 and the paper achieved a national circulation of 100,000. Peck was elected as the mayor of Milwaukee in 1889 and as governor of Wisconsin a year later. After he lost a bid for reelection in 1894, Peck returned to Milwaukee and lived at 1629 N. Prospect Avenue (no longer extant) until moving in 1897 into a unit of his row house where he remained until his death in 1916. The building was sold by the Peck family in 1920, and it was converted into a 67-unit rooming house in 1936. The George W. Peck Row House was locally designated by the City of Milwaukee on 16 June 1998 and rehabilitated into six condominiums in 2002. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 3/18/1997. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 6/24/1997. Tax Program. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2/15/2000. "Peck's Block of Residences" Milwaukee Daily Journal 10/18/1883, Page 4, Column 1. Historic Preservation Study Report for the George W. Peck Rowhouse, Prepared by the City of Milwaukee Historic Preservation Department. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |