Property Record
2126 WAUWATOSA AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | O. J. Olin Investment Property |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 77321 |
| Location (Address): | 2126 WAUWATOSA AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Wauwatosa |
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| Year Built: | 1914 |
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| Survey Date: | 2010 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | American Foursquare |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Wauwatosa Avenue Residential Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 6/20/2012 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 8/19/2011 |
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| Additional Information: | Following the Sweets and the Williams' tenure in the house, by 1920, the census enumerates Charles (age 32) & Anne (age 32) Morgan as renting the home, along with their two children, Charles and Francis (ages 4 and 2) and Anne's 70-year-old mother. Morgan worked as a superintendent at a tea company. By 1926, the city directory identifies Gilbert Prentiss, a clerk, his wife Alice and their daughter Marion S., a teacher, as living there. by no later than 1930, the house was purchased by Walter & Julia Van de Erve. Walter was an ear, nose and throat doctor. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Designated as part of Wauwatosa Avenue Historic District, Wauwatosa Historic Preservation Commission, 2010. Tax roll information indicates that it was built between 1913 and 1914 by O.J. Olin. The 1914 Wauwatosa City Directory records that Arthur J. Sweet was the first occupant of the home, which was, at that time, 504 Wauwatosa Avenue. Sweet was a construction engineer. A bio sketch of Sweet is in the History of Milwaukee, 1922, vol. 3, page 530, 533-34. "Mr. & Mrs. A.J. Sweet, formerly of 504 Wauwatosa Avenue, have stored their furniture, Mrs. Sweet and children leaving for New York City to spend the summer with relatives. The house they vacated is now occupied by Mr. Williams and family, previously on Western Avenue," Wauwatosa News, 5 May 1916. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |