Property Record
103 MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Sewall Andrews House |
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| Other Name: | MUKWONAGO MUSEUM |
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| Reference Number: | 8253 |
| Location (Address): | 103 MAIN ST |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | Mukwonago (village) |
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| Year Built: | 1842 |
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| Survey Date: | 20011975 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Greek Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Andrews, Sewall, House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/7/1981 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| 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. Sewall Andrews helped plat Mukwonago, Waukesha County’s first community, in 1836. He then established the village’s first store and in 1842 built what may have been the county’s first brick house at a crossroads in the town center. Andrews’s Greek Revival residence, with its pedimented gable, off-center entry with multipaned sidelights and transom, and pronounced cornice and frieze, pierced by attic lights, was stylish amidst the neighboring pioneer buildings. Unusual rope-twist moldings and rosettes trim the entry. As a shopkeeper with suppliers in New York, Andrews had access to manufactured design elements such as these. The core retains its original character, but slightly later the owners added the frame north wing, then the south wing, originally a woodshed and chicken house. In the 1920s, a rear porch and the three chimneys were also added. FRIEZE WINDOWS, STONE LINTELS AND SILLSCLASSICAL DOORWAYRETURNED EAVES1ST BRICK HOUSE IN MUKWONAGO |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |