Property Record
1711 KENDALL AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Charles Forster Smith House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 106681 |
| Location (Address): | 1711 KENDALL AVE |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1896 |
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| Survey Date: | 1997 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | University Heights Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/17/1982 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| 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, State Historic Preservation Office. Madison Historic Landmark: 5/6/1996. The University Heights Historic District: A Walking Tour: "An unknown architect created this imposing early Georgian revival design for Professor Charles F. Smith (1852-1931), a widower with five children. Smith came to Madison in 1894 as professor of Greek philology (linguistics) and taught until his retirement, having served as both departmental chairman and as president of the American Philology Association (1903). He was also the founder of the University Heights Poetry Club, a respected and long-lived local literary society. In 1917 Smith sold the house to his friend Professor Frederick Austin Ogg (1873-1951) and his wife Emma. Ogg was an internationally famous political scientist and author of seventeen major books, several of which (including the classic Introduction to American Government) became standard texts in the field. An inexhaustible worker, Ogg reputedly kept five desks in his home study, one for each phase of his work. It is revealing to compare the Smith house with the similar but more historically accurate Ely house built a year earlier at 205 N. Prospect Avenue. Both combine the exuberant and oversized decoration of waning Victorian design with the symmetrical elevations and colonial features of the waxing Georgian revival." |
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| Bibliographic References: | Madison Landmarks Commission and the Regent Neighborhood Association, The University Heights Historic District: A Walking Tour, 1987. Madison Landmarks Commission, University Heights: A Walk Through A Turn of the Century Suburb, n.d. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |