Property Record
18A SHAKE RAG ST
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Other Name: | SHAKE RAG UNDER THE HILL COACH HOUSE |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 30337 |
| Location (Address): | 18A SHAKE RAG ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1840 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Mineral Point Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/30/1971 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | BUILT BETWEEN THE YEARS 1838 AND 1842, THIS SIDE GABLED HOUSE FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, A CLAPBOARD EXTERIOR, A WOOD TRIM, AND A SHINGLED, GABLE ROOF. TWO BRICK END CHIMNEYS APPEAR ON THE ROOF'S APEX. ADORING THE OPENINGS ON THE FACADE ARE SASH WINDOWS WITH SIX-OVER-SIX PANES. A SECOND STORY PORCH HAS A SIDELIGHTED AND TRANSOMED ENTRANCE DOOR. BENEATH IT ON THE FIRST STORY, THE PORCH ROOF, WHOSE CORNICE IS DETAILED WITH DENTIL TRIM, IS SUPPORTED BY SQUARED POSTS. THIS PORCH ORIGINALLY SPANNED THE FULL LENGTH OF BOTH STORIES. (SEE BIB. REF. A); IT RETAINED ITS OPEN DESIGN, BUT WAS REDUCED IN SIZE AT AN UNKNOWN DATE. FRAME ADDITIONS WERE BUILT AT THE REAR OF THE STRUCTURE, ALSO AT AN UNKNOWN DATE. THIS RESIDENCE IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE SHAKE RAG UNDER THE HILL COACH HOUSE IS CURRENTLY BEING USED AS RETAIL SPACE. THE BUILDING WAS LOCALLY DESIGNATED IN 1972 AND IS PART OF THE MINERAL POINT LANDMARK DISTRICT. 2012- "This building has been called the "Coach House: for decades, although no records indicate just where the coaches stopped in stage coach days. A few yards south of this site Hoard Street, as Shake Rag Street was known originally, intersected with the Lead Road, the main route south to the other early mining communities of Shullsburg, Gratiot's Grove, New Diggings, and Galena, Illinois, so it is possible that this building was on the stagecoach route. Joseph James, who is credited with building the stone house at 28 Shake Rag was the original patent holder of this lot but little else is known abouth the early history of the building, including the name of the builder and the original occupant. According to tradition, it was an inn or a boarding house as it had no interior stairs. Another tradition says that a double porch extended across the street side of the building but it was removed after a small child fell from it and died. The building was restored in 1969 when it and the other buildings in the valley were developed in to Shake Rag Under the Hill, a crafts center with extensive gardens. The complex later became known as Shake Rag Valley. The building has been part of Shake Rag Allley School of Crafts since 2004." -from "A Field Guide to Mineral Point" by Nancy Pfotenhauer of the Mineral Point Historical Society, 1st Edition, 2012, Little Creek Press. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 151: Dodgeville To Belmont.” WHS project number 92-0510IA/LT. October 1993. Prepared by Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center (GLARC). A. MINERAL POINT TAX RECORDS, 1840-1910; "SHAKE RAG UNDER THE HILL" BROCHURE, N.D., N.P.; DATE OF CONSTRUCTION - SHAKE RAG ALLEY GUIDE; FRANK HUMBERSTONE AND ANNE JENKIN, "THE HOMES OF MINERAL POINT," (MINERAL POINT: FOUNTAIN PRESS, 1976). **THE CONSTRUCTION DATE AND THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS HOUSE IS NOT RECORDED BECAUSE THE TAX RECORDS AND THE MAPS OF THE PROPERTIES IN LOT 91-92-93-94 PROVIDED INCONCLUSIVE DATA. B. FRANK HUMBERSTONE AND ANNE JENKIN, "THE HOMES OF MINERAL POINT," (MINERAL POINT: FOUNTAIN PRESS, 1976). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |