Property Record
151 W COLLEGE AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Walter S. Chandler House |
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| Reference Number: | 94092 |
| Location (Address): | 151 W COLLEGE AVE |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | Waukesha |
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| Year Built: | 1876 |
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| Survey Date: | 1982 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Edward Townsend Mix, Milwaukee |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Chandler, Walter S., House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/27/1974 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Multiple Resources of Waukesha |
| 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, Division of Historic Preservation. Waukesha Local Landmark #1. In most parts of the country, Gothic Revival domestic design lost its popularity soon after the Civil War, but it persisted longer in Wisconsin. Mix’s picturesque Chandler House exhibits lingering Gothic Revival details, coupled with the asymmetrical massing of the Queen Anne style. Wooden decorations embellish every part of the two-story clapboard house, appropriately so, since Walter Chandler was a lumber dealer. A veranda with rounded and pointed arches wraps around the northwest part of the house, with an unusual cupola crowned by a spindle finial capping the veranda’s corner. Scroll-sawn brackets, bow-ribbon pendants, and quatrefoils lend a lacy look. The driveway passes beneath a porte-cochère, with basket-handle arches sprouting vines and trefoils in their spandrels and a pyramidal roof rising to another finial. The house’s most dramatic feature is the four-story central tower. Here, hexagonal shingles clad the topmost stage, and quatrefoil brackets prop up wooden balconets with sawtooth trim. Pairs of tall, pointed windows rise to a pyramidal roof with exposed rafter tails. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |