Property Record
1101 CENTER AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | YOUNG HOUSE HOTEL |
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| Other Name: | FLYNN'S RESTAURANT |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 47089 |
| Location (Address): | 1101 CENTER AVE |
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| County: | Green |
| City: | Brodhead |
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| Year Built: | 1868 |
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| Additions: | C. 1905 |
| Survey Date: | 1976 |
| Historic Use: | hotel/motel |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Exchange Square Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/15/1984 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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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. Rising three stories at the prominent southeast corner of Exchange Square, the Young House hotel is a visual anchor of the Square, a looming presence that dates to the first years of the Square's construction boom. Nearly cubic in dimension, the original building was constructed of cream brick and the walls were punctuated with windows of tall proportion surmounted by heavy brick hoods. Five bays across the front facade (and across the original side facade) the fenestration on each floor is composed of a central round headed window, capped with receding archivolts, flanked on both sides by two segmentally arched windows. The front and side entries were originally sheltered by pedimented porches (now removed and replaced with simple porches). In the early 20th century, the building was nearly doubled in size with an addition that echoed the fenestration and brick hoods of the original building. A uniform cornice, composed of ornamental brick work and denticulation, surrounds the building. Essentially unaltered, the building remains an enduring symbol of Brodhead's commercial prosperity. The Young House, built in 1868 by Brodhead businessman and one-time mayor J.A. Young, was the city's leading hostelry throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Situated on the southeast corner of the Square, directly across from the railroad station and in the heart of the commercial district, the hotel was a "throughly first-class house, up to the requirements of modern times in every material respect." The first floor featured parlors and a large dining room; the upper floor contained 32 guest rooms. The 1884 County History declared it the finest hotel in Green County. Young came to Brodhead in 1863 and ran one of Brodhead's first hotels, the Manley House, south of the tracks. But in 1868-69, Young sold the Manley House at a "smug profit" and built his new hotel on the north side of the tracks where other businesses were locating. In 1895, Young sold the hotel to H.M. Shorb and in the early years of this century (between 1901 and 1908) a rear addition was constructed of similar material and in similar design, considerably increasing the size of the business. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Brodhead Independent Register 3/1/1995. (B) Brodhead Independent Register 7/2/1997. (C) Commemorative Biographical Record. 1901, p. 497. (D) History of Green County. 1884, p. 807. (E) 1900, 1908 Sanborn-Perris Maps. (F) Register of Deeds. (G) Sherwood, T.S., The City of Brodhead, 1873, p. 77. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |