Property Record
US HIGHWAY 151, N SIDE, .1 MILE E OF EASTSIDE RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Ivey, James & Mary Ann, House |
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| Reference Number: | 55794 |
| Location (Address): | US HIGHWAY 151, N SIDE, .1 MILE E OF EASTSIDE RD |
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| County: | Grant |
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| Township/Village: | Platteville |
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| Town: | 3 |
| Range: | 1 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 14 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1895 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1995 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Wood Shingle |
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| Demolished?: | Yes |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 1995- "Modern shingle siding, vernacular Queen Anne, co. 1895 farmhouse with front-gable roof with smaller front-gabled pavilion. A large side porch has round Tuscan columns and there is a one-story wing behind it. There are decorative Gothic style bargeboards in the two front gables. This house was built as the farmhouse of James and Mary Ann Ivey. Ivey was born in Cornwall, England in 1816 and was a tin dresser in his native land. He came to Grant County in 1845 with his wife and one child and was a miner and worked at a smelting furnace. In 1854 he tried his luck mining in California and in 1855 came back to the Platteville area and bought a farm in the Town of Harrison. In 1872 he bought this farm. Besides raising crops he was also a stock grower. He was a relatively prosperous farmer and raised nine children. One of the children, Edward, took over the farm in the early part of the twentieth century. The current family, the Rosenmeyers, have owned it since before 1931 (plat maps). This house is one of the more intact late 19th century frame houses in the area, but it is has been altered by the addition of shingle siding and it is of no particular historic or architectural distinction." -"USH 151, Dickeyville to Belmont", WisDOT# 1209-02-00, Prepared by Katherine Hundt Rankin (Preservation Consultant) for Rust Environment & Infrastructure Inc, 1995. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |