Property Record
224 DAVIS ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | ST. MARY'S GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH |
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| Other Name: | ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 56647 |
| Location (Address): | 224 DAVIS ST |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Mineral Point |
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| Year Built: | 1901 |
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| Survey Date: | 19821993 |
| Historic Use: | church |
| Architectural Style: | Romanesque Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Mineral Point Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/30/1971 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | THIS ONE AND A HALF STORY ROMANESQUE REVIVAL CHURCH FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A LIMESTONE FOUNDATION, A BRICK EXTERIOR, A STONE TRIM AND AN ASPHALT SHINGLED GABLE ROOF. PARAPETS CAN BE SEEN AT THE UPPER PORTION OF EACH GABLED END. ROUND ARCHED OPENINGS ARE LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING. SOME OF THESE OPENINGS CONTAIN DELICATE TRACERY, AND MORE ABUNDANTLY, STAINED GLASS, WHICH HAS REMAINED INTACT OVER THE YEARS. AT THE SIDE OF THE CHURCH, BUTTERESSES REST UPON LIMESTONE BASES. BY FAR THE MOST DOMINANT ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT OF THIS CHURCH IS THE FRONT-FACING TOWER, WHICH PROJECTS FROM THE OPEN GABLED END. THIS TOWER IS EMBELLISHED BY STONE STRING COURSES AND BRICKWORK DETAILING. POLYGONAL ENTRANCE BAYS WITH TRUNCATED HIPPED ROOFS FLANK EACH SIDE OF THE TOWER. THIS BUILDING, CONSTRUCTED IN 1901 (SEE BIB. REF. E), IS PRESENTLY IN GOOD CONDITION. THIS PLACE OF WORSHIP WAS KNOWN HISTORICALLY AS THE ST. MARY'S GERMAN CATHOLIC CHRUCH. IT HAS SERVED AS A CHURCH FROM 1901 TO THE PRESENT DAY, AND IS NOW KNOWN AS THE ST. MARY'S CHRUCH. (SEE BIB. REF. E, F, G). |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 151: Dodgeville To Belmont.” WHS project number 92-0510IA/LT. October 1993. Prepared by Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center (GLARC). A. TAX ROLLS FOR THE CITY OF MINERAL POINT. ON FILE AT THE AREA RESEARCH CENTER OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE, PLATTEVILLE, WI. B. "MINERAL POINT GUIDE." MINERAL POINT: MINERAL POINT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, N.D. C. FRANK HUMBERSTONE, JR. AND ANNE D. JENKIN, "THE HOMES OF MINERAL POINT." MINERAL POINT: FOUNTAIN PRESS, 1976. D. C. W. BUTTERFIELD, "THE HISTORY OF IOWA COUNTY, WISCONSIN." CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1881. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. E. GEORGE FIEDLER, "MINERAL POINT, A HISTORY." MADISON: STATE HISTORICAL SOCEITY OF WISCONSIN, 1973. F. FIELD OBSERVATION BASED ON ARCHITECTURAL STYLE, BUILDING MATERIALS AND LOCAL HISTORY. G. SANBORN-PERRIS FIRE INSURANCE MAPS FOR THE CITY OF MINERAL POINT. ON FILE IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON. Historic Mineral Point Architectural Walking Tour brochure, 2000. From Mining to Farm Fields to Ethnic Communities: Buildings and Landscapes of Southwestern Wisconsin. Ed. Anna Vemer Andrzejewski , Arnold R. Alanen and Sarah Fayen Scarlett for “Nature + City: Vernacular Buildings and Landscapes of the Upper Midwest,” 2012 Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) in Madison, Wisconsin. Mineral Point Chamber/Main Street & The Mineral Point Historical Society, Historic Mineral Point Architectural Walking Tours, not dated. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |