Property Record
2021 CHURCH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Pearl C. Norton House |
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| Reference Number: | 8916 |
| Location (Address): | 2021 CHURCH ST |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Wauwatosa |
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| Year Built: | 1925 |
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| Survey Date: | 1995 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | English Revival Styles |
| Structural System: | Masonry |
| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
| Architect: | Ernest Flagg |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Norton, Pearl C., House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/12/1985 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County |
| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property named 'Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County'. 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. Designed by Ernest Flagg Systems Homes. One of the Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County (listed on NRHP: 9/12/85). Ridge dormers are made for ventilation. This one and one half-story Flagg System house faces east. Its dimensions are 47 x 58 feet. There are limestone exterior walls. The entrance is in a one story octagonal tower with conical roof, linking a one story ell with the rest of the house. Window and door openings are asymmetrical. There is a composition gable roof, two pairs of ridge dormers, ten gable dormers, and two chimneys with distinctive round openings. The original garage is attached. The living room in the one story ell has a stone fireplace. Casement windows open inward over the tile sills. There is a long hallway beyond the vestibule opening into the living room at one end and dining room at the other and a powder room and stairs to the second floor in between. The living room has a rafter ceiling with tie beams. There is a partial basement. A laundry room is just two steps down from the kitchen. A cabnet is open to the luandry and to the powder room. The kitchen has been remodeled with pine paneling. There is a partial attic and storage space under the roof. The upstairs partitions are 1 3/4" thich. Neighboring houses are quite large. This house is architecturally significant because it is one of a group of stone masonry houses built by Arnnold F. Meyer & Company, Inc. accroding to the construction method of Ernest Flagg. It is also distinctive because its plan is very similar to that of the house on Glendale but in reverse. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Permit #759 City of Wauwatosa. See Wauwatosa Historical Society Walking Tour pamphlet, 1980. National Register Multiple Property Listing, Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |