Property Record
1215 RAILROAD AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Prentice Ranger Station |
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| Other Name: | Prentice Ranger Station Service Building |
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| Reference Number: | 18997 |
| Location (Address): | 1215 RAILROAD AVE |
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| County: | Price |
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| Township/Village: | Prentice |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 35 |
| Range: | 2 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 6 |
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| Year Built: | 1939 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1991 |
| Historic Use: | camp/camp structure |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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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, State Historic Preservation Office. This one-story astylistic utilitarian carpenter shop (#343) features a rectangular shaped plan configuration, a concrete foundation, a wood frame construction, a clapboard exterior, a wood trim, and an asphalt shingled gable roof. The interior is finished with insulation board and birch floors. The building, constructed during the W.P.A. program, is in excellent condition. The Prentice Ranger Station repair shop has functioned as such since its date of construction in 1939. The building is still in use today. Previously, it served as a tower cabin, providing living quarters for the towerman at Harmony Tower. In the 1960s, the building had moved to its present site and its purpose had changed. No additions or major alterations were made to the structure - a structure which still uses a wood stove for heat. A building related to the carpenter shop is the ranger station. (See Map Code 9/28). Another Prentice RS storage/garage (#345) was auctoned, sold and moved off-site (the buyer lives in Phillips) to the purchasor's home in 1982. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Date of construction: DNR. B. WPA/DNR Site File #343. C. Designer name: WPA/DNR. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |