7650 N PHEASANT LN | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

Property Record

7650 N PHEASANT LN

Architecture and History Inventory
7650 N PHEASANT LN | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:River Hills Department of Public Works Building
Other Name:
Contributing:
Reference Number:222364
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):7650 N PHEASANT LN
County:Milwaukee
City:River Hills
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
Town:
Range:
Direction:
Section:
Quarter Section:
Quarter/Quarter Section:
PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1962
Additions:
Survey Date:20122019
Historic Use:government office/other
Architectural Style:Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival
Structural System:
Wall Material:Brick
Architect: Spinti & Spinti, architects
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name:Not listed
National Register Listing Date:
State Register Listing Date:
NOTES
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, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History.

The 1962 River Hills Department of Public Works building was designed by the architectural firm of Spinti & Spinti of Milwaukee in a modest Colonial Revival style. The square, one-story main block is clad in brick and features a massive central chimney projecting above a moderately pitched hip roof. The roof is covered in slate, and has a minimal overhang above a wide, dentilated wood cornice. The central main entrance features a round arch doorway with pair of six-panel wooden doors below a semicircular single-light transom. The main block is flanked by two smaller, flat-roof wings, each with shallow coping at the roofline above a dentiled brick cornice. Window openings contain one-over-one, double hung sash with replacement snap-in muntins, stone sills, and brick jack-arch lintels. A serpentine brick wall continues from the wings, featuring the same dentiled brick cornice, and encloses a courtyard and equipment storage sheds.

2019: Little or no change. Update photo
Bibliographic References:Architectural Renderings of the River Hills Department of Public Works facility located within the Department of Public Works building "Specifications for a New Service Building for the Village of River Hills," also located within the Department of Public Works building “Architecture and History Survey: I-43” WHS project number 12-0649/MI/OZ. 2012. Prepared by Mead & Hunt Inc.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the record you were looking for, or have other questions about historic preservation, please email us and we can help:

If you have an update, correction, or addition to a record, please include this in your message:

  • AHI number
  • Information to be added or changed
  • Source information

Note: When providing a historical fact, such as the story of a historic event or the name of an architect, be sure to list your sources. We will only create or update a property record if we can verify a submission is factual and accurate.

How to Cite

For the purposes of a bibliography entry or footnote, follow this model:

Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory Citation
Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, "Historic Name", "Town", "County", "State", "Reference Number".