Property Record
RIVERSIDE DR BETWEEN KRESS CT AND IROQUOIS AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MURPHY FENCE AND GATES |
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| Other Name: | MURPHY COWLES GATES |
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| Reference Number: | 227192 |
| Location (Address): | RIVERSIDE DR BETWEEN KRESS CT AND IROQUOIS AVE |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Allouez |
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| Year Built: | 1920 |
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| Survey Date: | 2014 |
| Historic Use: | fence/wall |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2014 The Murphy Fence and Gates, constructed c.1920, run along Riverside Drive/STH 57 from Kress Court south to Iroquois Avenue, then turn east at Iroquois Avenue and run approximately one block. The spiked wrought iron fence runs intermittently between unevenly spaced brick and concrete bollards. Along Iroquois Avenue, some of the historic bollards have been used to flank driveways for new homes in the area. Portions of the fence are nonextant or disrupted by vegetation; in one place a large tree has grown around the fence. Two brick bollards near to the center of the fence line along Riverside Drive/STH 57 have an oval plaque with the name “Murphy.” The Murphy House was constructed for Frank E. Murphy, a Green Bay businessman and alderman. Designed by the Green Bay architecture firm, Foeller, Schober, & Stephenson in 1920, the Mediterranean Revival-style house (AHI #71010) was located at the center of a large parcel that originally encompassed the area from Kress Court to Iroquois Avenue, and Riverside Drive to Webster Avenue was referred to as the Murphy Estate. The wrought iron fence and bollards surrounded the property. In the 1950s the estate was subdivided and several large, modern homes were built surrounding the Murphy House. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |