Property Record
1016 CLARY ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | A.W. Belding; Brasstown Cottage |
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| Reference Number: | 81656 |
| Location (Address): | 1016 CLARY ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Beloit |
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| Year Built: | 1870 |
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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 tall vernacular one and a half story side gable in T plan with a full dormer rising out of eaveline. This is decorated with imbricated siding and encloses a louvered vent crowned with dental molding. Has an arched and gable roof front entry that is supported by brackets. Windows on front facade display fixed awnings. Although not typical of the Brasstown Cottage, this house may be an early version of the form. House was built by A.W. Belding in 1870 for approximately $500. Assessment included lost 6 and 7. A.W. Belding was the sexton of Oakwood Cemetery. He served in this position for twenty years. 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 city lots. Moreover the Cottages' modest but distinctive profiles found in their variety of size and ornamentation conveyed a sense of individualiy 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, 1865-1875, Rock County Historical Society Archives, Janesville, WI. (B) Beloit Daily News, The Book of Beloit, Beloit, WI, 1936, p. 89. (C) Beloit Intensive Survey, Beloit, Wi, 1981. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |