Property Record
1821 75TH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | GEORGE CABLE HOUSE |
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| Reference Number: | 9670 |
| Location (Address): | 1821 75TH ST |
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| County: | Kenosha |
| City: | Kenosha |
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| Year Built: | 1883 |
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| Survey Date: | 2007 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Rising two stories, this house is topped with a hipped roof and features a catwalk with ironwork trim. Wooden brackets and dentil-like trim runs immediately beneath the slightly projecting eave. A one-story, hipped-roof, screen-enclosed porch runs across the home's primary north elevation, while three, regularly placed, sash windows line the second floor. Each of the three openings, as well as most of those along the remaining elevations, are segmentally arched and topped with a raised windowhood, as well as flanked by shutters. Many, if not all windows, have been replaced with rectangular examples. A one-story bay window with ironwork trim extends from the house to the east, while a one-story, gabled wing projects from the rear of the home. Previously surveyed in 1975. At that time, the name of George Cable and the date of 1883 was assigned to the home. The 1880 census indicated that Cable lived in the Town of Pleasant Prairie by no later than 1880. The 1916 biographical sketch idicates that he built the house on Selma Avenue (present-day 75th Street). Cable owned 24 acres and operated them as a "market gardener." His wife Mary died between 1900 and 1905 and he remained at the home, along with three of his daughters, until his death at some point after 1930. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Kenosha City Directory, Various dates checked between 1920-1965. U.S. census, 1900, 1910, 1920. Francis H. Lyman, The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County, Wisconsin (1916), Vol. 2, 338-39. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |