Property Record
204 W FREDERICK ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Anna and D.L. Barnes-Casper and Elizabeth Faust House |
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| Reference Number: | 21349 |
| Location (Address): | 204 W FREDERICK ST |
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| County: | Oneida |
| City: | Rhinelander |
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| Year Built: | 1884 |
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| Survey Date: | 1995 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 3 STORY CNR TURRET W/PYRAMIDAL ROOF. STEEPLY PITCHED GABLES. SHED ROOF REAR PORTION PROBABLY A LATER ADDITION. LEADED GLASS WINDOWS. 204 West Frederick Street D. L. and Anna Barnes-Casper and Elizabeth Faust House This one-and-one-half story, frame, Queen Anne house was built for D. L. and Anna Barnes circa 1884 (Lincoln County deeds, 5:46; City of Rhinelander tax rolls). The house has a gabled-ell plan, with a three-story square tower in the crook of the ell. The tower may not be original to the house, but may date from the 1894 alterations made by new owners Casper and Elizabeth Faust (1889 Sanborn Map of Rhinelander; Vindicator, August 1, 1894). The tower features multipaned Queen Anne windows, wood lintels with a sunburst pattern, an ornate wood cornice with interlacing arches, and a pyramidal roof. The roof is clad with two colors of asphalt shingles; a circa 1910 photo shows the roof as polychromatic as well (Oneida County: 1887-1987, p. 57). This photo also shows that this house had a Queen Anne front porch with turned balusters, bracketed posts, and a spindle frieze. Anna Barnes was married to D. L. Barnes; he arrived in 1882. At first he managed a general store for H. L. Powell, but by the end of the year he had opened the first drug store in Rhinelander. Barnes later served as justice of the peace; he was also the father of Charles F. Barnes, who founded the New North, the first newspaper in Rhinelander. Casper Faust was also one of the first merchants in Rhinelander, opening a hardware store in 1882 in a frame building that stood at what is now 8 West Davenport Street (the corner of Davenport and Brown Streets). Although the sale of liquor was prohibited in Rhinelander, it was secretly available in Faust's store (History of Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas Counties, p. 115). He was also active in establishing the local schools in 1883 (New North, April 26, 1883.). |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |