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7896 N CLUB CIRCLE

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7896 N CLUB CIRCLE

Historic Name:
Starke Meyer House

Other Name:

Reference Number:
16940

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Property Location

Location (Address)

7896 N CLUB CIRCLE

County

Milwaukee

City/Village

Fox Point

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1925

Additions

Survey Date

1985

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Other Vernacular

Structural System

Wall Material

Limestone

Architect

Ernest Flagg

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

A 'site file' exists for this property named 'Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County'. 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. Cotswold Cottage. One of the Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County (listed on NRHP: 9/12/85). When this one and one half-story house was built on a large lot on the edge of a ravine, Club Circle was not yet cut through. For this reason, the front door is sited to face northwest toward North Lake Drive. A small wooden bridge once crossed the ravine. With the opening of Club Circle, it became more convenient to enter the house by a door on the south. A garage which is not architecturally significant was built on the southeast part of the lot. The house is located in a neighborhood of larger homes and has attractively landscaped grounds. The exterior walls are limestone and there is a steep gable roof with slate shingles and copper cutters. The house is L-shaped and the window and door openings are irregular. There is only one ridge dormer, two gable dormers and two chimneys with distinctive round openings. The living room does not have a basement under it nor an attic above. It is two steps down from the rest of the hosue and has a roof rafter and tie beam. Casement windows open inward over tile sills. There is a basement under and partial attic over the rest of the house. There is a grate in the ceiling under the ridge dormer to provide ventilation for the room beneath. This house is architecturally significant because it is one of a group of houses built in Milwaukee County by Arnold F. Meyer according to Ernest Flagg's methods of construction. It is also significant because it is one of four houses built by Meyer for members of his own family. This house was built for his brother, Starke Meyer, manager of the Milwaukee Tug Boat line.

Bibliographic References

A. Maynard W. Meyer. B. Fox Point Village Assessor.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Meyer, Starke, House

National Register Listing Date

Sep 12, 1985

State Register Listing Date

Jan 01, 1989

Contributing

house Other Vernacular

Milwaukee
County

Fox Point
Community

1920-1929
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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