2932 W MCKINLEY BLVD | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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2932 W MCKINLEY BLVD

Architecture and History Inventory
2932 W MCKINLEY BLVD | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Edward Weld House
Other Name:
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:110974
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):2932 W MCKINLEY BLVD
County:Milwaukee
City:Milwaukee
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
Town:
Range:
Direction:
Section:
Quarter Section:
Quarter/Quarter Section:
PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1903
Additions:
Survey Date:1984
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival
Structural System:
Wall Material:Clapboard
Architect: C.F. Ringer
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: McKinley Boulevard Historic District
National Register Listing Date:7/30/1985
State Register Listing Date:1/1/1989
National Register Multiple Property Name:Multiple Resources of West Side Area
NOTES
Additional Information:Another map code is 15/36 LUQS 365.

Locally designated as part of the Cold Spring Park Historic District, 11/17/1987.

Mason: A.G. Ringer.

The middle blocks of the boulevard, between Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second Streets, were subdivided into wider lots, permitting larger houses. Consequently, these blocks display a greater architectural variety. For instance, the Edward Weld House (1903) at 2932 West McKinley Boulevard, designed by architect C. F. Ringer in the Colonial Revival style, has classical columns and porch balusters, brackets beneath the eaves, and a Palladian-style arched attic window in the front gable. The narrow wooden clapboarding on the first story and square-butt wooden shingles on the second story to reduce the apparent height of the walls, so the house looks less tall and hulking than if sheathed in a single cladding material.
Bibliographic References:Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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