| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. 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.
SEE ALSO 43214.
2022 - AHI 43214: The Cunningham Filling Station: The filling station is a small, end gabled building clad in clapboard siding with corner boards. The roof extends out past the end of the building to create an overhang where gas pumps were once located. The roof is clad with asphalt shingles. The overhang is supported with square pillars. There are two entrances: one located on the STH 80 facing façade and the other on the south facing façade facing the local street. Two large boarded over windows flank the west entrance. The building sits on a stone block foundation.
AHI 27816: Cunningham House; Cunningham Store and U.S Post Office: The Cunningham House is a two-story, L-shaped frame house clad with clapboard siding and covered by a gabled roof clad in asphalt shingles. It sits on a stone foundation. A covered porch with a shed roof clad in asphalt shingles and supported with turned posts runs along the first story of the front façade (facing south); the same style porch is also located on the rear façade of the house (facing north). Paired rectangular windows with two over two lights are found in the second story of the front facing gable (facing south) and the rear facing gable (facing north). Single rectangular windows with two over two lights are found on the second level of the ell both front and rear facing, the second level of the east facing gable and west facing second level. The front entrance is located in the center of the first floor of the front gable (facing south) and is flanked by single windows, with two over two lights. To additional entrances are located on the front façade ell while a single entrance is located on the rear façade ell. There is an enclosed exterior basement entrance attached to the rear façade.
A small, rectangular frame shed is located on the east side of the house. It sits on a concrete foundation and is clad with horizontal clapboard siding and covered with gabled roof clad with metal. A grouping of three rectangular windows with two over two lights are found on the south side of the building. Per the Determination of Eligibility completed in 1994 this shed was moved to this location from a neighboring farmstead in 1981 and is a noncontributing element.
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| Bibliographic References: | Apps, Jerry. Barns of Wisconsin. Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010.
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United States Department of Agriculture. Richland County [air photo]. 1:30,000. Photo 4-323. Wisconsin. 1937, accessed September 2022, http://maps.sco.wisc.edu.
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