Property Record
3821 N PROSPECT AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Seneca W. and Bertha Hatch House |
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| Reference Number: | 24466 |
| Location (Address): | 3821 N PROSPECT AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Shorewood |
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| Year Built: | 1924 |
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| Survey Date: | 1985 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Other Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | Ernest Flagg |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Hatch, Seneca W. & Bertha, House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/12/1985 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County |
| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property named 'Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County'. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. One of the Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County. This one and one half-story Flagg System house has a limestone exterior. There are one pair of ridge dormers, one gable dormer and two chimneys. There is a hip roof. Window and door openings are symmetrical. There is an octagonal tower centrally placed on the east which contains stairs to the second floor. There is a laundry room on the first floor and no basement. There is no garage. The living room has a stone fireplace and casement windows. There is a beam and girder ceiling on the first floor. The bathroom floor is one step above the level of the second floor hallway. The former front entrance and south exterior wall became the interior wall of an addition built onto the house in 1955. It contains a family room and bedroom. This house is architecturally significant because it is one of a group of stone masonry houses built in Milwaukee County by Arnold F. Meyer according Ernest Flagg's system of construction. It is similar to the house built on Beaumont for members of the family for whom this house was built. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Building Inspector's Office, Village of Shorewood. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |