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4473 N 26TH ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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4473 N 26TH ST

Architecture and History Inventory
4473 N 26TH ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Felix J. Gagnon House
Other Name:
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:110892
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):4473 N 26TH ST
County:Milwaukee
City:Milwaukee
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
Town:
Range:
Direction:
Section:
Quarter Section:
Quarter/Quarter Section:
PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1922
Additions:
Survey Date:1999
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:Side Gabled
Structural System:
Wall Material:Aluminum/Vinyl Siding
Architect: William Schuchardt
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: Garden Homes Historic District
National Register Listing Date:5/4/1990
State Register Listing Date:1/23/1990
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
Additional Information:4473 N. 26th Street is a Model 6D with a reverse floor plan. Model 6D is "..a two-story, side gabled, side-entry cottage. The first story of the main elevation facing the street features a grouping of three sash windows surmounted with a Palladiain-like, semicircular wooden moulding. The seond story features two regularly-spaced bays of paired, double-hung windows. The main entry, located on the front half of the side elevation features a porch ..whose roof rests on groupings of three square wooden posts at each outside corner, and whose railing is composed of simple, rectangular wooden balusters.. The entry is balanced by a single double-hung window on the rear half of the elevation. Fenestration on the second floor consists of two, regularly-spaced double-hung windows. The other elevations are simply composed and feature randomly-placed windows that respond to interior needs." "A dado of permastone was applied to the lower half of the first floor of the main elevation facing the street, and the remainder of the house has been aluminum-sided." (A).
Bibliographic References:A. National Register Nomination form.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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