| Additional Information: | Information from the 2022 WisDOT survey report:
Rising two stories, this side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house (1937) is clad in brick and features a one-story, flat-roofed porch at its east end. An exterior brick chimney runs up the east gabled endwall of the two-story block. The central entry is outlined by a classical surround that includes fluted columns and a full pediment with dentil trim. A narrow transom tops the door. Six-over-six-light, double-hung sash flanked by shutters are arranged symmetrically along the main block’s street-facing elevation. Window sills are comprised of header brick, while soldier brick headers top the first-floor openings. A continuous run of casement or slider windows are evident on the porch, which was added in 1949.
This house was built in 1937 for Henry & Nathalie Cassell at an approximate cost of $9,500. Henry was born in 1903 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In 1926, he married Nathalie Groesbeck and, three years later, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Civil Engineering. From 1926 to 1936, he was employed with the Wisconsin Highway Department, after which he was an engineer with the federal government. During World War II he served on the Board of Economic Warfare in Washington, D.C. By no later than 1945, the Cassell family moved to Fond Du Lac. The house was then sold to Robert H. & Elizabeth Rice. As of 1950, Robert was the secretary-treasurer of the Rice Excelsior & Supply Company, consignee wholesale grain and feed. In 1949, the Rices, who had five children, added the sunroom on the east side of the house at an approximate cost of $1,500. The Rices remained in the home through the 1950s, after which it was purchased by Anthony and Eda Fazio. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Citations for the 2022 WisDOT survey report information below:
“Groesbeck-Cassels (sic),” wedding announcement, The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, WI), 9 September 1926, 3; Original building permit application, 920 E. Calumet Road, 4 May 1937, owner: Henry & Nathalie Cassell, est. cost, $9,500; “Henry Clay Cassell,” in the U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Available online at www.Ancestry.com, Accessed October 2022; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1930, 1940, 1950; Fond du Lac City Directory, 1946; “Henry C. Cassell,” Obituary, The Capital Times (Madison, WI), 8 July 1959, 8; Building permit application for porch addition, 920 E. Calumet Road, 17 June 1949, owner: R. Rice, builder: E.H. Bode & Son, est. cost, $1,500; Whitefish Bay-Fox Point Directory, 1958-59, 1960-1961. |
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