Property Record
1300 FAIRVIEW AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Alice & Cyrus Thieme House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 146927 |
| Location (Address): | 1300 FAIRVIEW AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | South Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1927 |
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| Survey Date: | 2007 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | English Revival Styles |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Additional Information, 2025: Architecture: The Thieme house was built in 1927 in the English Revival architectural style. It was designed by Milwaukee architects E. B. La Croix and Walter G. Memmler. The house is two-stories in height with a complex hip and gable roofline. Both the hip and gable sections of the roof have sloping elements and shed-roofed dormers. While the house has a basic rectangular plan, the sloping rooflines, dormers, and projecting gables suggest an irregular plan. The roof is covered with wood shakes and the walls are veneered with multi-colored tan bricks. Dormers are clad with wide wood siding and there is a small amount of stucco on the main elevation. A wide brick chimney sits near the center of the main elevation next to the main entrance that is filled with a door made up of vertical wood boards and a vertically divided window. Most of the openings are irregular and include some single-light, double-hung sashes of various sizes. Decorative windows include a set of four casements on the main elevation that are filled with leaded glass in a diamond pattern and several four, six, and eight-light leaded glass windows, some with central art glass panels in a shield design. A one-story addition was added to the rear elevation of the house sometime before 1961. It has a gable roof, stucco and faux half-timbered wall surfaces and a bank of casement windows. Projecting from one side wall is a second story addition completed around 1970. It has a gable roof with dormers and wide board wood siding. This addition sits over a car port that is supported by large wood posts. A matching garage sits toward the back of the lot. It has a gable roof covered with wood shakes, multi-hued tan brick walls and a half-timbered finish in the gable of the main elevation. There are two garage doors covering the openings on this elevation. An addition that features stucco walls, double-hung sash windows, and an entry door was added sometime before 1961. (Carol Cartwright, 2025) 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. One and one-half stories, irregular roof, rectangular plan, low pitch hip dormers on side elevations, gable portico with decorative verge boards supported by turned posts. Brick garage with stucco and half-timbering. |
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| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |