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732 CHURCH ST

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732 CHURCH ST

Historic Name:
Charles and Della Emerson House

Other Name:

Reference Number:
81606

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Property Location

Location (Address)

732 CHURCH ST

County

Rock

City/Village

Beloit

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1894

Additions

Survey Date

1981

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Queen Anne

Structural System

Balloon Frame

Wall Material

Clapboard

Architect

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

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, State Historic Preservation Office. With multiple projecting gables, intersecting volumes, and variegated siding, this house is an architecturally significant example of the Queen Anne residential style in Beloit. Rising two stories plus attic, the house is composed of a complex massing best seen, perhaps, on the main (east) facade where a gabled porch projects from a gabled bay which in turn overhangs the east wall, creating a succession of projecting and enlarged units. But if irregular massing and plan are hallmarks of the style, the frame house is most distinguished by its richly decorative use of siding. Although the clapboards and shingles are left unornamented, their texture and pattern endow the house with an understated elegance. Extremely narrow clapboards wrap around the first two stories (the clapboards on the second story being more narrow that that on the first) enveloping the house in a taut and smooth skin. The overhanging gables which dominate the house are covered in shingles with distinctive concentric bands forming a fan-like pattern in the gable peaks. The pedimented entry porch is also shingled and features an arcade of broad, low arches supported by squat columns in a manner reminiscent of the Romanesque Revival. Scalloped edges in the gables and slight returns provide further detail, but the house is essentially devoid of applied ornament, relying instead on massing and texture for its visual appeal. This house was built in 1894 and first owned by Charles and Della Emerson. Charles was the proprietor of Emerson's Drug Store in Beloit.

Bibliographic References

(A) Beloit Tax Rolls, RCHS Archives. (B) City of Beloit Directories, 1894-1901.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Near East Side Historic District

National Register Listing Date

Jan 07, 1983

State Register Listing Date

Jan 01, 1989

Contributing

Yes

house Queen Anne

Rock
County

Beloit
Community

1890-1899
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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