Property Record
200 PINE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | John L. Woy |
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| Reference Number: | 78911 |
| Location (Address): | 200 PINE ST |
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| County: | Monroe |
| City: | Sparta |
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| Year Built: | 1877 |
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| Additions: | 1988 |
| Survey Date: | 1989 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Wood |
| Architect: | Frank Foote |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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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. A local builder-architect designed this Italianate residence with its tall narrow windows with segmentally arched drip moldings; low-pitched hipped roof with wide, bracketed eaves; an entry porch with Tuscan columns; a two-story bay window; and a dramatic belvedere. Less typical is the way Foote disguised the wooden wall cladding to look like stone. He laid the oak siding flush, scoring it at regular intervals to simulate ashlar, and he placed imitation quoins at the corners. He even fashioned false voussoirs, using wedge-shaped wooden blocks to form a dramatic basket-handle arch around the double entry doors. Thanks to Foote’s ingenuity, the Woy House resembles a masonry building at a fraction of the cost. Nevertheless, the house reflects the prosperity that wheat brought to Sparta in the 1870s and 1880s. John Woy, who opened a grain elevator near the Chicago and North Western depot in 1875, was one of several Spartans who made their money storing wheat. A number of grist mills, flour mills, and farm-implement dealerships also flourished in Sparta before wheat-growing declined in the late nineteenth century. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |