Property Record
1209 89TH AVE (USH 12)
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Lamson, Levi and Millicent (Clarissa), Farmstead |
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| Reference Number: | 135203 |
| Location (Address): | 1209 89TH AVE (USH 12) |
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| County: | St. Croix |
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| Township/Village: | Warren |
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| Town: | 29 |
| Range: | 18 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 22 |
| Quarter Section: | NW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NW |
| Year Built: | 1870 |
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| Survey Date: | 20072008 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Gabled Ell |
| Structural System: | Masonry |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Levi Lamson |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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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, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. Original survey 2005. Outbuildings on farm include: tractor shed (possibly the original threshing barn), machine shed, chicken coop, laying barn (egg laying), young chicken coop, hog barn, granary, privy, and smokehouse. This house, along with a general store/post office that the Lamson family built adjacent to the house, formed the core of the cross-roads community of Warren Center. At its peak, Warren Center consisted of three houses, the general store, and a blacksmith shop. Lamson ran the general store/post office and served as justice of peace. When the predecessor of the Chicago & North Western Railroad was extended through Warren Township in 1871, it ran about 1/2 mile south of Warren Center. The community of Roberts Station grew up on the rail line, and Lamson moved his store building there. By 1886, Warren Center ceased to exist. The house, which remained in Warren Center, remained with the Lamson family until at least 1975. This was a wheat farm until 1959, when Helen Lamson began growing soybeans and corn. 1870 and 1880 Federal Censuses indicate Levi's wife's name was Clarissa. 2008- "The Levi Lamson Farmstead is situated at the southeast quadrant of the US 12/STH 65 intersection. This previously inventoried farmstead comprises a residence and nine outbuildings. The two-story Gabled Ell farmhouse essentially comprises two sections, a front-gabled brick section, and a ca. 1900 side-gabled wing finished with clapboards. The brick section was built for Levi and Millicent Lamson prior to 1875, and perhaps as early as 1864, although the wooden, doublehung 2/2 windows suggest a ca. 1870 date. The frame wing displays wooden, double-hung 1/1 windows. A broad cornice with returned eaves unites the two sections. The hip-roofed entrance porch, enclosed with clapboards, stretches across the frame wing and appears to date from ca. 1920. The roofs are surfaced with asphalt shingles. The nine outbuildings located on the property are situated south and east of the residence, are little-altered, and constitute a wide variety of structures. Five of the nine outbuildings are gable-roof, frame barns. A machine shed, chicken coop, and privy are also of frame construction. The remaining outbuilding is constructed of fieldstone and may have been utilized either as a springhouse or smokehouse. The only apparent alteration to these buildings has been the resheathing of rooflines with asphalt shingles. This house was erected for the Lamsons, who came to Warren Township from Ohio in 1862. The Lamsons built a frame commercial building just east of this house in 1862, with a general store and post office on the first floor, and a hall above. The house and commercial building formed the core of a tiny, cross-roads community called Warren Center, which existed during the 1860s and 1870s. At its largest, it had three houses, Lamson's commercial block, and a blacksmith shop. Lamson also served as the local justice of the peace. When the predecessor of the Chicago & North Western Railroad was extended through Warren Township in 1871, it was built one-half mile south of Warren Center. Roberts Station, now the village of Roberts, was established on the rail line in 1872. In 1876, Lamson's general store was still open, but by 1886, Warren Center had ceased to exist. The Lamson's store building was moved to Roberts Station, where it was converted into a residence. In contrast, this property remained in the Lamson family until at least 1975." - "USH 12, STH 65 South/120th St Intersection", WisDOT ID #8949-02-05, Prepared by Rachel E Bankowitz (2008). |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |