Property Record
2517 FINGER RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Edmund J. and Alice Delwiche House |
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| Reference Number: | 30935 |
| Location (Address): | 2517 FINGER RD |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1918 |
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| Survey Date: | 19852023 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2023- Edmund Delwiche was born in Belgium in 1874 and immigrated to the United States with his family as a child in 1879, settling in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Working as a farmer as a young man, he married Alice Collin in 1898. Delwiche attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated with a bachelor’s in agronomy in 1906 and a master’s degree in 1909, becoming an assistant professor in agronomy at the university. He became the superintendent of the northern branch of the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, based outside Green Bay at his farm. He would soon become the superintendent of new experiment stations in Ashland, Sturgeon Bay, and Spooner. During the 1910s and 1920s, he pioneered soil erosion prevention methods and studied the hybridization of corn, producing two new varieties. His experiments resulted in new disease resistant strains of peas, wheat, barley, oats, and soybean crops. Much of his work was published in experiment station bulletins and other publications. In 1918, Edmund and Alice Delwiche constructed a house on their property at 2517 Finger Road in Green Bay. The house was once surrounded by various agricultural outbuildings, nearly all of which are non-extant except for a garage. Delwiche served as president of the Northern Grain Show Association for two decades. Edmund Delwiche retired in 1945 as an emeritus professor, leaving the farm to his four sons to manage. He died in 1950. Essentially Colonial Revival house with Craftsman elements including the pergola-like entrance porch, wide overhanging eaves with exposed rafters. Three window groups on the first floor flanking the entrance door with each group having a wider center window. Windows all have brick sills and soldier course lintels. Brick pilasters double the square entrance porch piers. This is a large substantial brick house looking somewhat out of place in its semi-rural setting. #650: Barn. |
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| Bibliographic References: | 2023 - “Obituary: Edmund Delwich.” Madison Capital Times, January 20, 1950 Green Bay Press-Gazette, March 3, 1945 Green Bay Gazette, July 31, 1935. City assessor. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |