504 3RD ST W

504 3RD ST W

Ashland

Ashland

1887

1982,2016,2025

house

Second Empire

Clapboard

No

TOWER REMOVED, BUT MANSARD ROOF PIERCED BY MANY DORMERS. NOTE BAY WINDOWS Ashland's only surviving Second Empire house features Mansard roof with dormers clapboard first floor and coupled brackets. Tower was recently removed. 2016: Some porchwork removed since last surveyed; most windows (which featured an upper pane of colored glass) have also been replaced. 2017 survey report information: Rising from a brownstone foundation, this Second Empire-style house features a first floor sheathed with clapboard and an upper story with a Mansard roof that is covered with asphalt shingles. Paired, carved wooden brackets underscore the roof’s eave, while gabled roof dormers extend from the Mansard roofline; each dormer includes a replacement sash window and a wooden surround, the peak of which includes a modest sunburst motif. A small, shed-roof and open replacement porch with turned posts shelters the front door, above which is a transom window. A rectangular bay with single brackets and dentil trim projects from the north elevation of the house, while a polygonal bay with paired brackets extends from the west elevation. Paired windows include a wooden surround with a carved peak that also includes the sunburst design, while singly arranged windows a set within more modest wooden surround. The rectangular projection from the roofline, located immediately above the front door, was previously a tower that rose an additional story. Built in 1887 at an approximate cost of $5,000, this was the home of John F. Scott. John F. Scott came to Ashland in 1883 and, upon the arrival of F.F. Hubbell in 1886, opened a planing mill with the latter. The following year, J.H. Taylor joined the concern. By 1893, the company reportedly employed thirty men and it was estimated that three-fourths of the residential millwork in Ashland was done by the firm. In 1895, Hubbell left the company and the name of the firm then changed to the Scott-Taylor Co.; in 1905, Taylor died. As of the 1900 census, the house was occupied by Scott and his wife (of five years) Helena, as well as two boarders—one family and one single man; although by 1905, it was reduced to only the Scotts and a live-in servant. Scott was active in local concerns, having served as the president of the Ashland School Board during the period in which the high school (no longer extant) was built. In 1911, the Scotts moved to San Diego, California; John died in 1919. The house was sold in 1911 to S. Edward and Annie Mathews. S. Edward was a partner in the wholesale grocery business of J.B. Mathews & Co. Just six months after the Mathews family--which included seven children--was enumerated at the home in 1920, S. Edward died at the age of sixty. By no later than 1928, Annie was taking in boarders. It is unclear if the interior was divided into apartments by/at that time. In 1941, the house was sold to John and Elizabeth Bloomquist. The property now consists of four apartments. 2025: Appearance unchanged since last surveyed.

"Ashland's Progress" Ashland Daily Press, 25 June 1887, includes a note "-the residence of J. F. Scott on Third Street and Vaughn Avenue will soon be completed." A list of buildings completed in Ashland are listed in the Ashland Daily Press, 3 December 1887 and it includes the house for J.F. Scott at Vaughn Avenue & 3rd Street, at a cost of $5,000. Historic photograph of house in The Ashland Daily Press Annual, 1891-1892, page 45. 2017 survey citations for material below: A pair of citations in the local paper confirm the home’s construction in 1887; one cites that it was “soon to be done,” while the other was a year-end listing of homes and buildings constructed in the city, The Ashland Daily Press, 25 June 1887 and 3 December 1887, respectively; “Ashland’s Planing Mills: Scott Hubbell & Taylor’s Factory,” The Ashland Daily Press Annual Edition, 1893, 46; Community notes, The Ashland Daily Press, 31 January 1905; Smith & Goc, eds., Looking Backward, Moving Forward, 50; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1900; Wisconsin State Census, 1905, both available online at www.Ancestry.com, Accessed June 2017; Ashland City Directory, 1911; Death notice for John F. Scott in Lumber (St. Louis, MO), Vol. 54 (21 July 1919), 51. Helena M. and John F. Scott to S. Edward Mathews, WD (18 July 1911), 103/158, #38879; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1910, 1920; Death date for S. Edward Mathews gleaned from “U.S., Find-A-Grave Index, 1600s-present”; Ann M. Mathews to John and Elizabeth Bloomquist, WD (1941; full date not noted), 141/586; Ashland City Directory, 1924, 1928.

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