Property Record
823 ELM ST
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | WILL DASS HOUSE |
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Reference Number: | 81461 |
Location (Address): | 823 ELM ST |
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County: | Rock |
City: | Beloit |
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Year Built: | 1899 |
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Survey Date: | 19912015 |
Historic Use: | house |
Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
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Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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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 simple vernacular one story side gable form with a front gable. Has three bay facade and gable roof front entry with closed pediment supported by brackets. Building is in T plan and is two rooms wide and three rooms deep with shed-roof side porch off south facade. Features a box window with bracketing under its hipped roof. Addition on north facade. 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 the factories located on the westside of the Rock River. Brasstown Cottages fulfilled this basic need, furnishing workers with single-dwelling vernacular frame houses on relatively spacious 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 1880's to the 1920's 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 Cottaegs 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. House was built by Will Dass in 1899 for $400. |
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Bibliographic References: | (A) Beloit City Tax Rolls, 1895-1905, Rock County Historical Soceity Archives, Janesville, WI. (B) Beloit Intensive Survey, Beloit, WI, 1981. |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |