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2131 VAN HISE AVE | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

Property Record

2131 VAN HISE AVE

Architecture and History Inventory
2131 VAN HISE AVE | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:William F. Winterble House
Other Name:
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:75853
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):2131 VAN HISE AVE
County:Dane
City:Madison
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
Town:
Range:
Direction:
Section:
Quarter Section:
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1930
Additions:
Survey Date:1997
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:English Revival Styles
Structural System:
Wall Material:Stone - Unspecified
Architect: James Law of Law, Law and Potter; J.H. Findorff and Sons-builder
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: University Heights Historic District
National Register Listing Date:12/17/1982
State Register Listing Date:1/1/1989
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
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-Public History. Winterble was an agency manager for the Bankers Life Co. and lived in this house from 1931-1934. The 1931 city directory shows Bankers Life in the Tenney Building, with Winterable’s name right above also in the Tenney Bldg. and same phone number. Isabel B. and Philip LaFollette owned the house from 1941-1947. Philip was alive until 1965, and the house is under his name in the 1946 directory.

In the late 1930s this house was rented by Philip H. Gray, Jr. and his wife, Margaret, who were fictionalized in Wallace Stegner's novel "Crossing to Safety" as Sid and Charity Lang.
Bibliographic References:City directories. Tax records. Building permit. Gregory, John, Southwestern Wisconsin, V. 4, 1932. Wisconsin Warranty Deeds, Recorded 5/28/1941-12/2/1947.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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