Property Record
1003 MILWAUKEE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Norman and Carrie Leyse House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 33916 |
| Location (Address): | 1003 MILWAUKEE ST |
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| County: | Kewaunee |
| City: | Kewaunee |
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| Year Built: | 1914 |
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| Survey Date: | 1999 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | American Foursquare |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Marquette Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/4/1993 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 4/23/1993 |
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| Additional Information: | Norman Leyse was a co-founder, with his brother Albert, of the Leyse Aluminum Company which started in 1903 in Two Rivers and moved to Kewaunee in 1905. The company at first manufactured aluminum signs and related products. It covertd to the manufacture of aluminum cookware during World War II and built a new plant in Kewaunee. In 1938 Leyse Aluminum had 90 workers and by 1983, when it merged with General Housewares Corp., it had more than 230 workers. By the 1990s it was owend by the Vollrath Corporation. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Historic name, date of construction: tax rolls. Luxemburg News 9/2/1999. Step back in time…stroll the streets of Old Kewaunee, Marquette Historic District Planning Committee, 1994. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |