8937 BIG BEND RD | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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8937 BIG BEND RD

Architecture and History Inventory
8937 BIG BEND RD | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:
Other Name:Washington Caldwell School
Contributing:
Reference Number:242005
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):8937 BIG BEND RD
County:Racine
City:
Township/Village:Waterford
Unincorporated Community:
Town:4
Range:19
Direction:E
Section:1
Quarter Section:NE
Quarter/Quarter Section:NW
PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1880
Additions:C. 1955C. 1995C. 1970
Survey Date:2020
Historic Use:one to six room school
Architectural Style:Front Gabled
Structural System:
Wall Material:
Architect:
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:Surveyed in July 2020 by UWM-CRM as part of Hwy 164 reconstruction project (WisDOT ID#2810-08-00).

The oldest part of the school was constructed around 1880, with three later additions in the 1950s, the late 1960s, and the early 1990s. The west (Big Bend Rd.) elevation is clad in variegated brick and has groups of paired windows, a pair of entry doors, and groups of smaller windows. A corrugated metal cornice caps the elevation. The west elevation was constructed sometime between 1950 and 1963, leaving the gable end of the original nineteenth-century building visible behind the addition. The north (Denoon Rd.) elevation contains a second addition built sometime between 1963 and 1970. This elevation is clad in variegated brick and has large windows consisting of paired fixed lights with lower hopper windows. A corrugated metal cornice wraps around this elevation as well, and a double-height building mass (probably a multipurpose room or cafeteria) is clad in the same corrugated metal. A large textured concrete block addition is located on the west and south elevations; this third addition was constructed sometime between 1990 and 1995.
Bibliographic References:
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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