Property Record
1175 GRIGNON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Peter Christman House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 31085 |
| Location (Address): | 1175 GRIGNON ST |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Green Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1929 |
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| Survey Date: | 19852022 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Dutch Colonial Revival |
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| 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: | Excellent design combines two styles. The house has a very rare jerkinhead gambrel roofed design having very wide boxed eaves whose soffits are covered in thin tongue and groove board siding. Both the 2nd floor gambrel ends and the dormers are sided in stucco, while the first floor iw wholly sided in brick. A wide soldier course brick water table encircles the house and is laid flush with the main walls. All windows ar 7/1 lite in a pattern unique to Green Bay houses. There is a large polygonal sunporch on the east facing facade having a mansard roof with bellcast eaves above with a wrought iro balcony for the terrace formed by the roof of the porch. The sunporch is lit by tall 11 lite casement windows whose muntin pattern echoes that of the rest. A similar roof covers the entrance porch which also has a semi circular arched gablet over the similar entrance door below. ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE This fine and unusual design is essentially a good example of a side-gambreled Dutch Colonial Revival design utilizing elements of the craftsman style in its wall surfaces and in its decoration. It is unusual for larger, mroe substantial houses of this period to mix styles or to incorporate Craftsman elements such as the muntin patterns on the windows and the brick and stucco wall surfaces. This house is significant architecturally, both for its successful combining of styles and for its totally original appearance which has been well maintained. The house also occupies a prominent, tree-filled corner site at the corner of the proposed Astor Historic District. #650: Garage is original to the house and identical in style and materials. Green Bay Intensive Survey Phases 2, 3 & 4 |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Brown County Tax Rolls. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |