Property Record
229 N UNION ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | George McNamee House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 39708 |
| Location (Address): | 229 N UNION ST |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | Appleton |
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| Year Built: | 1897 |
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| Survey Date: | 1991 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Wallace W. DeLong-1897 |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
| Demolished Date: | 2019 |
| 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 a two and one half story, gabled-hip-roofed, rectangular, clapboarded house with rock-faced limestone foundations and a partially shingled second story. Virtually all of the architectural detailing is concentrated on the facade which is loaded with eyecatching features including the paneled second story oriel with its classical entablature, the columned second story loggia with its peculiar exposed rafter end cornice, the shell-topped palladian window in the attic gable with its multipaned and cutticed glazing and the large dormer with its gable with exposed rafter ends and shaped brackets jettied out over an ornately latticed amd mulitipaned oriel window. The most original feature of the design is the full length, shed-roofed, front porch supported on paired Tuscan columns resting on stone pedestals. The entrance to the porch is framed by a broad, free-standing, rusticated limestone rich frontispiece with square tear-drop-finial-topped piers rising on the sides to form the newels for the turned balustrade at the second story open deck in front of the loggia. Owned by Lawrence University. Additional map codes are: 8/7. Garage. This structure contributes to the significance of the Appleton City Park Historic District under Criterion C as a highly original example of a medium sized late Queen Anne house displaying an extraordinarily complex and eclectic facade treatment incorporating elements drawn from both the Romanesque Revival and Colonial revival styles. At some point of the building was moved from its original location on 122 N UNION ST to 229 N. Union Street. Damaged by fire in 2018. Demolished due to fire damage in 2019 |
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| Bibliographic References: | Appleton City Directory 1889, 1901, 1904, 1906, 1908, and 1925. Appleton Evening Crescent 8/10/1897. http://www.iasm.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1st-place-awd-winners2018.pdf https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2019/10/31/lawrence-university-owned-home-appleton-set-demolition/4100404002/ https://www.wbay.com/content/news/Lawrence-University-heartbroken-over-demolition-of-118-year-old-house-564121301.html |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |