Property Record
1128 GRACE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Paul and Ethel Grubb House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 87917 |
| Location (Address): | 1128 GRACE ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Janesville |
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| Year Built: | 1929 |
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| Survey Date: | 2003 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Bostwick Avenue Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 4/24/2006 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/20/2006 |
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| Additional Information: | 2003- This building contributes to the architectural significance of the Bostwick Avenue Historic District as fine example of the Colonial Revival style. The house has the symmetrical form and massing and fenestration of the style, with multi-light openings. The main entrance is at the center of the main elevation and features a full pediment, frieze and pilasters, along with sidelights and a transom. These are all fine details of the Colonial Revival style. A modern wing has been added to the west elevation. This wing has similar characteristics to the main block, but with modern materials. There is a massive brick chimney in the center of the wing. 2005- The Grubb house has a main block that is two stories in height, a rectangular plan, and a side gable roof. A frieze decorates the roof eaves and is slightly returned at the end walls. The walls are covered with clapboard siding and punctuated with symmetrical fenestration of primarily six-over-six-light, double-hung sashes decorated with shutters. On the first story of the main elevation, the symmetrical openings flanking the main entrance are 15-light windows also decorated with shutters. The main entrance sits at the center of the main elevation. It is decorated with narrow sidelights, a narrow transom, and a frontispiece of full pediment, cornice and frieze, and narrow pilasters. A chimney projects up the west elevation side wall and splits a fanlight in the gable peak. Attached to this wall is a one and one-half story ell that is decorated in a similar manner to the main block. It has a large brick chimney projecting up the main elevation, which is also covered with an ell porch. The porch has a balustrade with plain posts and geometric designs and plain posts support the porch roof. Paul Grubb was a Janesville attorney with the firm Nolan, Dougherty, Grubb, & Ryan. |
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| Bibliographic References: | City Directories. 2005, Carol L. Cartwright. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Bostwick Avenue Historic District, Janesville, WI. The Bostwick Avenue and Jefferson Avenue Historic Districts: A Guide, Janesville Historic Commission, 2008. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |