Property Record
8511 W WISCONSIN AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | George Wamser House |
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| Reference Number: | 241928 |
| Location (Address): | 8511 W WISCONSIN AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Wauwatosa |
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| Year Built: | 1955 |
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| Survey Date: | 20202024 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Ranch |
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| Wall Material: | Stone Veneer |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2024: Oriented on an east/west axis and situated on the south side of Wisconsin Avenue, from which it is set back by approximately 49 feet, this single-story, Ranch-style house is sheathed with quarried limestone. The house’s most unique feature is its roof which has a wide overhang and employs a combination hipped and central gabled roofline. Which is to say that the structure’s roof is essentially hipped with nominal, clipped gables at each end of the roofline, immediately between the roofline and the hipped roof plane below. The hipped roof then continues to the north, from the body of the house and includes the garage that projects to the north at the east end of the house. The structure’s other consequential feature is the combination of the front door, to the right (west) of the garage, the floor-to-ceiling, narrow, vertical window pane to its right and the three large, approximately ¾ length picture windows to the vertical window’s right (west). Those windows, and additional lights around the house, all have concrete sills and terminate when reaching the soffit of the roof’s overhang. Contractor Hilltop Homes built this house in 1955 for George and Otillia Wamser, the former having been president of George F. Wamser Typographers, Inc. He subsequently died, but Otillia remained in the property to at least 1961. |
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| Bibliographic References: | 1. Building Permit #16/55, 11 January 1955. On file in Permits Office, City of Wauwatosa, Wauwatosa, WI. 2. Wauwatosa City Directories, 1957-1961. Located at the Wauwatosa Public Library, Wauwatosa, WI. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |