Property Record
1304 CASS ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Eleanora and Henry Gund House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 34790 |
| Location (Address): | 1304 CASS ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1918 |
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| Survey Date: | 1996 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Howard and Shaw |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Cass and King Street Residential Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/7/1997 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 4/22/1997 |
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| Additional Information: | Two-story gable roofed house with roof dormers, symmetrical five-bay structure with two-story west gable roofed extension, multiple gabled roof dormers, cornice returns in gable ends, six over six windows, small scale one-bay open entrance portico with dentil trim supported by slender Tuscan columns over sidelighted door with side lights and applied pilaster door frame, blind fan-shaped ornament over entrance door, inside and outside chimney, east gable roofed porch, formal garden at rear, and circular drive and stone fence surrounding the property. Garden side facade exhibits less formal appearance with bay windows and shed roofed porches. Sited in a garden setting with access from a circular drive, this substantial house derived from Classical architecture makes a significant contribution to the archtectural environment of La Crosse as a good example of fashionable architecture in the early decades of the 20th century. This house replaced an earlier brick veneered Queen Anne style built c. 1890 by Benjamin Edwards, vice-president of the La Crosse Knitting Mills and president of the La Crosse City Railway Co.. Gund first appears at this address in the 1919 city directory. Henry Gund was the son of John Gund, the most important of La Crosse's brewery owners. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Wright's La Crosse City Directory (Milwaukee: Wright Directory Co., 1985, 1919). (B) Sanborn-Perris Map, City of La Crosse, 1891, 1906. (C) La Crosse Tribune 11/28/93. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |