Property Record
1409 - 1409A WASHINGTON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | William and Lydia Gaterman House |
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| Reference Number: | 58801 |
| Location (Address): | 1409 - 1409A WASHINGTON ST |
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| County: | Manitowoc |
| City: | Manitowoc |
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| Year Built: | 1911 |
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| Survey Date: | 19962023 |
| Historic Use: | duplex/two-flat |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Intact Beaux Arts details; carving, relief, porch urns.with porte cochere . The William Gaterman house is a large home featuring a two story brick main block topped by a frame attic floor. The cross gable roof features hsingle clad gable end with inset window framed by Ionic columns. Window inset has large Beaux ARts reminiscent carved panels in the gable end. Roof and gables overhang the main block slightly. Two story polygonal bays are on front and both side facades. A full front porch extends across the entire front and continues east to form a port cochere. The porch is supported by Ionic columns on stone piers. Urns are found on the porch. This building aend its carriage house are considered significant as an example of the late Queen Anne/early Colonial Revival style in Manitowoc. It is intact except for its formal carriage hosue. Part of its significance emerges fron the survival of the original positioning and setting of the buildings. 2023: This 2 ½ story Queen Anne duplex was constructed in 1911 for William and Lydia Gaterman. It rectangular in plan with cast rock-faced concrete brick walls (not to be confused with brick-faced concrete block) and an asphalt-shingled cross gable roof. The front elevation faces north and is asymmetrical in composition with a full-width front porch. The porch features ornate stone or cast concrete supports that consist of a tapered columns with Ionic capitals resting atop fluted urns; in turn, these supports sit on squared stone or concrete piers. Railings along both sides of the porch and across a portion of its front are of decorative cast concrete with a similar motif to that of the porch supports. The porch is further ornamented by arched spandrels across the front and side openings. A set of concrete steps (divided by a metal handrail) is located at the western end of the porch face opposite two multi-light wood-framed doors with stone lintels. The porch also shelters a three-sided bay window that contains single 1-over-1 windows on each side and a larger window with transom at the center; all windows feature stone sills and lintels. Above the porch, the second story contains a similar bay window at the western end and a multi-light wood-framed door flanked by 1-over-1 windows at its eastern end. The door provides access to the flat porch roof. The second story is sheltered by an overhanging attic story; the overhang is ornamented by decorative modillions. A bank of three 1-over-1 windows is located under the gable and is recessed within an ornate, classically inspired surround that features Ionic columns on each side and an arched spandrel above, the whole of which is capped by an entablature with dentil detailing and a round-arched molded panel above; the surrounding wall space is clad in decorative wood shingles. Similarly styled gable windows are located in the gables of both side elevations. Each gable is further ornamented by a small turned wood finial. The east elevation features two 2-story bay windows, between which is a flat-roofed porte-cochere with columnar supports (these supports are post-1985 replacements for the originals that mimicked the Ionic column and urn motif of the main porch supports). The property also contains an associated garage building (AHI 58799). The house was originally owned by William Gaterman, a local inventor, founder of the Gaterman Manufacturing Company (located about a block north of the Gaterman House on S. 15th Street), and a director of the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Company. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. County Tax Rolls. B. Falge, Louis J., Hisotry of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Vol. II, p. 548. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |