Property Record
408 LAKESIDE PARK RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Villa Laun |
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| Other Name: | |
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| Reference Number: | 82099 |
| Location (Address): | 408 LAKESIDE PARK RD |
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| County: | Sheboygan |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Rhine |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 16 |
| Range: | 21 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 30 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Additions: | C. 1981 |
| Survey Date: | 1977 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Chas. Hilpertshauser |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Villa Laun |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 1/28/1982 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: |
| 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, State Historic Preservation Office. Queen Anne lakeside cottage - one of the most distinctive in turn-of-the-century resort area. Restored 1981-82. Tucked among trees on the eastern shore of Elkhart Lake, Villa Laun typifies the resort cottages where many wealthy Americans summered in the Victorian period. In 1901, lumberman A. B. Laun commissioned Hilpertshauser of Chicago to design a Queen Anne retreat for his family. The composition features two octagonal bays, with pyramidal roofs flaring at the boxed eaves. A gabled porch, decorated with false half-timbering, scroll brackets, and a delicate dentil course, spans the gap between the bays. An open terrace, where the Launs took in lake breezes, wraps around to the side elevation, and its simple railing bows gracefully at the corner. Rising above the terrace and the bays is an octagonal third-story belvedere, trimmed with a geometric railing. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |