| Additional Information: | In the style of an English townhouse, this red brick building with stone trim was built in 1911 by H.W. Buemming for John P. Reiss, the head of Reiss Steamship Company. Sheboygan County Landmark.
2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan recommendation write-up:
This property consists of a Georgian Revival-style house (1913; AHI#82337) and carriage house (1913; AHI#129479); ornamental metal fencing with brick piers delineates the lot. Topped with a Mansard roof from which round-arched dormers and at least four brick chimneys rise, the house is sheathed with brick and trimmed with stone quoining. The home’s primary entrance is located along St. Clair Avenue, within a projecting, one-story enclosure. Ornamental wrought iron railings accents second-floor windows along both its north and east elevations. A glass canopy that once sheltered the east entry is no longer evident and the stone balustrade that originally topped the north entrance is also missing.
Designed by Milwaukee architect H.W. Buemming and built by W.C. Weeks, Inc., this house and carriage house/garage was completed in 1912 for John Peter & Charlotte Reiss. John P. Reiss was born in 1875, the son of Clemens Reiss, the founder of the C. Reiss Coal Company, the company for which John worked for twenty-three years, ten years of which he served as the vice president and treasurer. He married former schoolteacher Charlotte Buchanan in 1902 and they had three children. Charlotte died in 1913 and John died just three years later, at the age of forty-one. At the time of his death, he was also vice president and treasurer of the Reiss Steamship Company, vice president of the Sheboygan Railway & Electric Company and a directory in the North American Steamship Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The minor children of the Reisses remained in the home with their maternal grandmother Elizabeth Buchanan and aunt Kathryn Buchanan. The house then passed on to John P. Reiss Jr., who owned the house with his wife Ruth (nee Wheeler) until his death in 1972. The house, which was sold outside of the Reiss family in 1973, was one of five properties designated as a Sheboygan County landmark in 1982. The house has previously served as the Lake View Mansion Bed & Breakfast and, since 2014, it is a rental venue known as the Castino Lakeview Mansion.
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| Bibliographic References: | LJM Architects, Inc. City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Architectural and Historical Intensive Survey Report. City of Sheboygan Historic Preservation Commission & Department of City Development; 2002, 2004 & 2006.
Citations for the 2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan recommendation write-up:
Newsbrief (re: house opening dinner party held), The Sheboygan Press, 31 December 1912, 1; “Funeral of Mrs. J.P. Reiss Saturday,” The Sheboygan Press, 26 December 1913, 1; “Sudden Death of John P. Reiss at Early Hour Today,” The Sheboygan Press, 21 July 1916, 1; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950; “Mrs. Elizabeth Buchanan is Called to Rest Early Today,” The Sheboygan Press, 21 October 1930, 2; “John P. Reiss Dies at 64,” The Sheboygan Press, 25 August 1972, 16; “J.P. Reiss Mansion Sold,” The Sheboygan Press, 21 April 1973, 19; Dawn Belleau, “Gatsby Would Have Loved It,” The Sheboygan Press, 2 June 1975, 8. |
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