Property Record
116-20 W 2ND ST (aka MAIN ST W)
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Other Name: | ANDERSON HEATING CO |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 866 |
| Location (Address): | 116-20 W 2ND ST (aka MAIN ST W) |
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| County: | Ashland |
| City: | Ashland |
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| Year Built: | 1891 |
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| Survey Date: | 1983 |
| Historic Use: | small retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Romanesque Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | West Second Street Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 2/2/1984 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | THREE-PART STOREFRONT WITH UNUSUAL OGEE ARCH DESIGN OVER WINDOWS. STOREFRONT [Date Cnst:(A)] Description: Built one year after the Knight Hotel, this 1891 10 one-story three-part storefront is unique to the proposed districts architectural inventory. The 1895 businesses included Ora nd Levinson Merchant Tailors, Gleason and Company Millenry, and the G.W. Harwell Collection Agency, soon replaced by a jeweler. The early character of the storefront articulated with pressed brick remains largely intact (although one brick pier is damaged) and the symmetrical facade features the exaggerated wooden ogee arch made by the Scott Taylor Company of Ashland, 11 a metal corbel table and applied elipses. Significance: This unusual building was built in 1891 and represents the nearest approximation in Ashland of the Art Nouveau style. Like other buildings in this block near the famous Knight Hotel, this decoratively treated building contained a jewelry, clothing and a talor business during the 1890's. The building is significant, furthermore, because it retains so much of it's original fragile storefront elements and represents another fashionable style of architecture in Ashland's business district. |
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| Bibliographic References: | [A] 1895 ASHLAND CITY DIRECTORY |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |