Property Record
111 MOORE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Charles Franz Rental Brasstown Cottage |
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| Reference Number: | 80876 |
| Location (Address): | 111 MOORE ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Beloit |
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| Year Built: | 1903 |
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| Survey Date: | 19912015 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | House is a small one and a half story side gable in T plan with front gable. Two rooms wide and two rooms deep. Features an enclosed gabled front porch with double hung sash windows and modern door. Sided in shingle. House was built by Charles Franz in 1903. Total value for all lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 on this block of Moore St. was $3,375. Individual value was $675. House was a rental; Charles Franz lived at 524 Bluff St. and was a supervisor for the American Heating Company in Rockford, Illinois. This house is significant under criterion A, event, because it retains integrity in location, design, setting, workmanship, materials, feeling and association in order to convey the broad pattern of industrialization in Beloit. One aspect of this industrialization was the growing population and the need to provide affordable housing for industry workers near rhe factories located on the westside on the Rock River. Brasstown Cottages fulfilled this basic need, furnishing workers with single-dwelling vernacular frame houses on relatively spacious city lots. Moreover the Cottages modest but distinctive profiles found in their variety of size and ornamentation conveyed a sense of individuality while at the same time being identified with the large industrial complex. Beloit's rapid growth from the 1880s to the 1920s was a direct result of this industrialization and created the cityscape of Beloit today. It was in this period of heavy industrialization and growth that most of the extant Brasstown Cottages were built. Many of the owners of Brasstown cottages were skilled workers applying their specialized knowledge to the machine-making and paper-making industries of Beloit. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Beloit City Tax Rolls, 1900-1910, Rock County Historical Society Archives, Janesville, WI. (B) Beloit City Directories, 1904, Beloit Historical Society Archives, Beloit, WI. (C) Beloit Intensive Survey, Beloit, WI, 1981. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |