Property Record
7821 State Highway 42
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Reference Number: | 244324 |
| Location (Address): | 7821 State Highway 42 |
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| County: | Door |
| City: | Egg Harbor |
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| Survey Date: | 2022 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2022/HRL: This building is situated on the west side of STH 42 and faces east. It is setback from the street about twenty-feet and has two sections. That to the south, with its commercial vernacular architectural character, likely dates to the early years of the twentieth century while that to the north was more probably constructed sometime between 1938 and 1951, if not later. The entire building is sheathed with clapboard. The south half of the greater structure rises from a stone and mortar foundation. It is two stories and sheltered by a gently pitched roof sloped from east (building front) to west (building rear). Its most distinctive feature is its store front framed by two, fluted, faux columns that appear to carry a dentilled cornice. Centered within the storefront is a recessed doorway immediately flanked by wooden bulkheads that carry one, vertically-placed glass pane with a transom light. Two, large, vertical glass pane units, then, each with three, horizontally-oriented transom lights, reach from the doorway recess to the faux columns to the north and south. Two, symmetrically-placed, one-over-one-light sashes are situated on the second floor, above which is a bracketed cornice. The southside of this building component has two first floor windows while the second floor has five. All are of varying sizes and are randomly placed. It is unknown if the north half of the building was constructed in its own right and then attached to the south unit, or if it was originally built as an addition. Regardless, it appears substantially remodeled. Its primary attributes are its recessed doorway sheltered by a shed roof, a gabled wall dormer sheathed with fish-scale pattern shingles and half an octagonal tower situated at the northeast corner of the building though it has a full, octagonal roof. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Egg Harbor Historical Society. Celebrating Egg Harbor, 1861-2011, Volume 1: A Patchwork of Family Memories. Egg Harbor, WI: Egg Harbor Historical Society, 2011 (p. 210). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |