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Property Record

2126 WAUWATOSA AVE

Historic Name:
O. J. Olin Investment Property
Other Name:
Reference Number:
77321

Property Location

Location (Address)
2126 WAUWATOSA AVE
County
Milwaukee
City/Village
Wauwatosa
Township
Unincorporated community
Town
Range
Direction
Section
Quarter Section
Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built
1914
Additions
Survey Date
2010
Historic Use
Architectural Style
Structural System
Balloon Frame
Wall Material
Aluminum/Vinyl Siding
Architect
Other Buildings On Site
Demolished
No
Demolished Date
Additional Comments
Following the Sweets and the Williams' tenure in the house, by 1920, the census enumerates Charles (age 32) & Anne (age 32) Morgan as renting the home, along with their two children, Charles and Francis (ages 4 and 2) and Anne's 70-year-old mother. Morgan worked as a superintendent at a tea company.
By 1926, the city directory identifies Gilbert Prentiss, a clerk, his wife Alice and their daughter Marion S., a teacher, as living there. by no later than 1930, the house was purchased by Walter & Julia Van de Erve. Walter was an ear, nose and throat doctor.
Bibliographic References
Designated as part of Wauwatosa Avenue Historic District, Wauwatosa Historic Preservation Commission, 2010. Tax roll information indicates that it was built between 1913 and 1914 by O.J. Olin. The 1914 Wauwatosa City Directory records that Arthur J. Sweet was the first occupant of the home, which was, at that time, 504 Wauwatosa Avenue. Sweet was a construction engineer. A bio sketch of Sweet is in the History of Milwaukee, 1922, vol. 3, page 530, 533-34. "Mr. & Mrs. A.J. Sweet, formerly of 504 Wauwatosa Avenue, have stored their furniture, Mrs. Sweet and children leaving for New York City to spend the summer with relatives. The house they vacated is now occupied by Mr. Williams and family, previously on Western Avenue," Wauwatosa News, 5 May 1916.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name
Wauwatosa Avenue Residential Historic District
National Register Listing Date
Jun 20, 2012
State Register Listing Date
Aug 19, 2011
Contributing
Yes
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