Property Record
421 S Pearl Street
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Reference Number: | 242845 |
| Location (Address): | 421 S Pearl Street |
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| County: | Waupaca |
| City: | New London |
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| Survey Date: | 2020 |
| Historic Use: | automobile showroom |
| Architectural Style: | Twentieth Century Commercial |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Surveyed 2020: Built of brick laid in a running bond, this former automobile industry sales and car care structure was constructed between 1913 and 1926. It is oriented on an east/west axis, situated in the northwest corner of the S. Pearl /Cook street intersection and faces Pearl Street. The building is setback from the street by the width of the sidewalk. The structure’s façade historically claimed a centered doorway flanked by two large, picture windows. The doorway remains. It is crowned by a glass transom and flanked by single panel sidelights, to either side of which were the historic show windows through which new automobiles could be viewed. They are now unsympathetically infilled with a modern stone veneer, each with two small, single-light windows. Above the infilled windows is a limestone band that extends the width of the building, above which is a prominent, stepped parapet with stone coping. Matching the limestone band on the north and south sidewalls is the edge of the structure’s gabled roof. The north sidewall is solid and unbroken. That to the south claims a number of windows, all with concrete sills, and three doors, the largest of which is an overhead door that accommodated the movement of vehicles into and out of the service area. The other two are/were pedestrian doors. The most prominent window on the south side is that to the east which also permitted a view of the showroom. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |