Property Record
1603 JEFFERSON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Burd, Leslie and Grace, Residence |
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| Reference Number: | 37412 |
| Location (Address): | 1603 JEFFERSON ST |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1897 |
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| Survey Date: | 1988 |
| Historic Use: | duplex/two-flat |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Map code is 070922410017. "Architectural fashion underwent a transition in the 1890s from the more elaborate Queen Anne style houses that had predominated Madison and elsewhere to buildings exhibiting simpler, more classically-inspired designs which drew their inspiration from America's colonial past. As in any other transitional period, however, some designs tried to have it both ways and the results occasionally bordered on the eccentric. A case in point is this highly individualistic design created by an unknown architect for Leslie and Grace Burd. Burd was then the clerk of the UW Board of Regents and his new house was the first house built in Oakland Heights. The basically cruciform plan of the house typified many of the smaller Queen Anne style houses of the day, but the Dutch Colonial gambrel roofs, with their Palladian window groups, looked forward to the period revival styles that were to follow. The very elaborate shingling in the gable ends, though, echoes the complexity of the Queen Anne style. In 1904 noted Madison attorney Emerson Ela (1875-1956) built a larger but more restrained version of this house at 1101 Grant Street. While its plan and massing still retained echoes of the Queen Anne style, its greater simplicity was much more in keeping with its Dutch Colonial precedents." The Greenbush-Vilas Neighborhood: A Walking Tour. Madison Landmarks Commission and the Brittingham-Vilas Neighborhood Association, 1991. |
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| Bibliographic References: | The Greenbush-Vilas Neighborhood: A Walking Tour. Madison Landmarks Commission and the Brittingham-Vilas Neighborhood Association, 1991. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |