Property Record
2150 S 81ST ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Clifford Dussault Residence |
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| Reference Number: | 9167 |
| Location (Address): | 2150 S 81ST ST |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | West Allis |
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| Year Built: | 1927 |
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| Survey Date: | 2007 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Craftsman |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Sears, Roebuck & Company |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | BRACKETS UNDER EAVES. SHINGLED GABLES. Identified as a Sears-Roebuck House, "The Kilbourne." Although the overall form of the house is side-gabled, a front-facing, low-pitched, gabled roof dominates the home's primary west elevation. Brick piers support the roofline, the gable of which is sheathed with what appears to be clapboard and carries a rectangular opening with three square windows. Wooden knee braces and a plain bargeboard accent the roofline/eave. The porch shelters a single door, as well as two rectangular windows near the walls upper edge. A small, gabled dormer rises from the roofline adjacent to the porch, carries a single, rectangular window and is also accented with wooden knee braces. A picture window rests immediately below the dormer, along the first floor. Remaining fenestration consists of singly arranged sash windows and both the north and south endwall gabled peaks are also covered with clapboard. Built between 1927 and 1928 at an estimated cost of $6,500, this home's original owner was Massachusetts-born Clifford A. Dussault and his wife Alma (Schilefski). City directories identify Clifford as working as a sheet metal engineer at International Harvester Co. in Milwaukee. The Dussaults had three children (Willard, Milton and Ruth), and for at least a time, Alma's mother Augusta resided with them. By no later than 1942, Paul Boebel was also in residence, along with his wife. Three years later, Boebel, who worked as an electrical engineer at Allis-Chalmers, is identified as the home's sole owner. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Date of construction from assessor's records. Original permit for 2150 S. 81st Street, dated 19 October 1927; Biographical information gleaned from the 1930 U.S. census, available online at www.Ancestry.com; West Allis City Directory, 1932, 1942, 1945. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |