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405 COLLINS ST

Historic Name:
Henry H. Huson House and Water Tower

Other Name:
Yankee Hill Bed and Breakfast

Reference Number:
82205

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Property Location

Location (Address)

405 COLLINS ST

County

Sheboygan

City/Village

Plymouth

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1871

Additions

1873

Survey Date

1975

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Italianate

Structural System

Wall Material

Clapboard

Architect

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

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.

Bibliographic References

Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Huson, Henry H., House and Water Tower

National Register Listing Date

Nov 28, 1980

State Register Listing Date

Jan 01, 1989

Contributing

house Italianate

Sheboygan
County

Plymouth
Community

1870-1879
Decade

National and State Register Listing

Unique ID
HI82205

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