Property Record
1607 N MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MARTIN T. & MABEL APPLEYARD HOUSE |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 138321 |
| Location (Address): | 1607 N MAIN ST |
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| County: | Winnebago |
| City: | Oshkosh |
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| Year Built: | 1908 |
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| Survey Date: | 200520122013 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Craftsman |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | North Main Street Bungalow Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/25/2013 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 5/24/2013 |
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| Additional Information: | 2013: Martin T. Appleyard, who at times worked as a carpenter, mason, and laborer, had constructed a modestly-sized, two-story home around 1908 on the west side of North Main Street, next door to the home that was concurrently being constructed for his parents, Frederick N. & Henrietta Appleyard. The Appleyard homes were the first two homes constructed in the district. Martin would later gain a position as a machinist for the Schloemer Manufacturing Company and its outgrowth, the Royal Machine & Foundry Company, owned by his neighbor, Peter J. Schloemer. The Martin T. & Mabel Appleyard House is generally rectangular in plan and is covered on the exterior with wooden clapboards. The house features a wide wooden skirt board above the roughly-cut stone foundation. The front façade features an entry door which is slightly right of center at the first floor level. A wide projecting bay, with a pair of double-hung replacement windows in its center unit flanked by a single double-hung replacement window in each of the bay’s angled side units, is located to the left of the entry door, while a smaller, square, replacement window is located to the door’s right. The building’s first floor-level windows and front entry door are trimmed with a simple wooden crown. Two single, double-hung windows divide the front façade into thirds at the second floor level, the tops of which abut a wooden frieze board. The house is prominently covered by a clipped, cross gable roof with moderately-wide, returning eaves. A covered porch spans the entire length of the front façade of the house. The porch features tapered half-walls clad with wooden shingles that transition to taller piers at the two corners and there support a cluster of three square, wooden columns at each corner. The porch is covered by a front-facing gable roof with moderately-wide overhang. The front of the gable is clad with wooden shingles and flares slightly above the eaves. At some point in time, a metal guardrail was added above the lower portions of the porch’s half-wall as well as a railing at the stairs. CLIPPED GABLE ROOF, C.1950 NONCONTRIBUTING GARAGE. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Oshkosh City Directories, Various Years 1900-1960. On file at the Oshkosh Public Library, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. City of Oshkosh Assessment Data. City of Oshkosh website. <http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us> Accessed Nov. 6, 2012. "N. Main Street Survey," WisDOT ID #4994-01-14/15, Prepared by Heritage Research (2013). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |