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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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NE CNR OF BROADWAY AND 15TH ST
21649
Located in Menomonie, Dunn County
