Property Record
740 Honey Creek Parkway
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Joseph and Dorothy Glojek House |
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| Reference Number: | 241764 |
| Location (Address): | 740 Honey Creek Parkway |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Wauwatosa |
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| Year Built: | 1956 |
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| Survey Date: | 20202021 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Ranch |
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| Wall Material: | Stone Veneer |
| Architect: | Ray Dieterich |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2021: Appearance Unchanged. 2022 WisDOT survey information: This side-gabled Ranch house is largely sheathed with Lannon stone, while the gabled ends of the roof are covered with wide board siding. The roof is covered with asphalt shingles and a short and wide chimney rises from the roof’s ridge. Extending from the front of the house is a continuous flat-roofed porch overhang that is supported by a series of five, square and unequally spaced, fluted supports that rest on a short, stone-sheathed wall (or, at its south end, upon a singular pier-like base). The south one third of the home’s west entrance elevation is comprised of a paneled, wood-and-glass garage door. The remaining two-thirds consist of a door with flanking sidelights that is set in between a pair of tripartite picture windows. Designed by architect Ray Dieterich, this house was built in 1956 at an estimated cost of $33,000 for Joseph and Dorothy Glojek. Joseph was born in 1911 in Wisconsin, the son of Yugoslavian immigrants, Ferdinand and Mary, who operated a grocery store and meat market in West Allis. By no later than 1930, Joseph worked in the family store, where he remained until at least 1940 and continued to live with his family in West Allis. Joseph served in the army for less than a year between 1943 and 1944. Following service, he married Dorothy Kovatovic and they had two daughters. The 1950 census identifies Joseph as a professor of economics at a university; however, at the time the house was built, he was identified as a Milwaukee County social worker. By no later than 1971, Glojek was in the business of real estate. The Glojeks remained in the house until selling in 1978 to Wilbur H. Rosin, the president of (then) Concordia College. Joseph Glojek died in 1990, while Dorothy died in 2012. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for the 2022 survey information provided below in Additional Comments: Original building permit for 740 Honey Creek Parkway, dated 10 May 1956, architect, Ray Dieterich, estimated cost, $33,000; Wauwatosa City Directory, Various dates reviewed between 1957 and 1979; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950; “Joseph L. Glojek” in the U.S., Department of Veteran Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010, Available online at www.Ancestry.com, Accessed April 2022; “Dorothy D. Glojek,” obituary, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2012. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |