Property Record
203 N UNION ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | E.H. Olds House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 39705 |
| Location (Address): | 203 N UNION ST |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | Appleton |
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| Year Built: | 1891 |
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| Additions: | 1914 |
| Survey Date: | 1991 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Wallace W. DeLong-1914 |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Appleton City Park Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 10/25/2002 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 7/19/2002 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. This is two and one half story, gabled hip-roofed, frame Queen Anne style house with rusticated limestone foundations. The large, rectangular house has architectural elevations facing both Union and Washington streets. Although attempts were made to give the house a picturesque look by using a complex roofline with many jettied gabled supported on curved Queen Anne brackets by cantilevering a portion of the second story out over a canted bay window on the Washington Street elevation, by using many different sizes and shapes of windows and by dividing the second story wall planes with a continuous belt course of wide boarding at the window sill level. The house is basically rather plain and boxy. The gabled front porch has had its posts and railings replaced with modern wrought iron, but the side porch on Washington Street is in more original condition. The patterned shingling in the front gable and the stained glass transoms in the parlor windows are interesting features. As of 1991, the property was owned by Lawrence University. Garage. This structure contributes to the significance of the Appleton City Park Historic District as a representative example of a large Queen Anne house of the 1890s. The conservatively designed house has been little altered and still displays many fine original features. The property was owned by George Holliday as of 1914 but is believed to have been rented out. |
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| Bibliographic References: | The American Contractor 10/24/1914. Appleton City Directory 1925. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |