Property Record
405 COLLINS ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Henry H. Huson House and Water Tower |
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| Other Name: | Yankee Hill Bed and Breakfast |
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| Reference Number: | 82205 |
| Location (Address): | 405 COLLINS ST |
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| County: | Sheboygan |
| City: | Plymouth |
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| Year Built: | 1871 |
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| Additions: | 1873 |
| Survey Date: | 1975 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Huson, Henry H., House and Water Tower |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/28/1980 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | Built in 1871 with additions in 1873, this two story Downingesque house has a tall rectangular tower and a porch across the front and was built for Henry H. Huson, a department store owner. Sheboygan County Landmark. Across from the Queen Anne house built for Henry Huson in 1871 stands the picturesque two-story water tower that Huson built in 1887 to provide running water for his family. Each level of the wooden structure is clad in a different fashion. On the first story, battens cover the seams of the vertical board walls that terminate in semicircular arches. A wide horizontal band of drop siding divides this level from the narrower clapboards cladding the second story. Triangular pediments on the first story yield to pedimented hoods on the second. A multifaceted cupola with a cross-gabled roof rises atop the low-pitched hipped roof. The original windmill once atop the cupola is gone. The windmill pumped water to the house, where it was stored in second-story reservoirs and released through a gravity-flow system. Six water towers like this one stood in Plymouth in the 1890s, but this is the only survivor. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |