625 GIDDINGS AVE | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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625 GIDDINGS AVE

Architecture and History Inventory
625 GIDDINGS AVE | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:David Giddings House
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Reference Number:82361
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):625 GIDDINGS AVE
County:Sheboygan
City:Sheboygan Falls
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1865
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Survey Date:2002
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:Italianate
Structural System:Masonry
Wall Material:Cream Brick
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Demolished?:No
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NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name:Not listed
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NOTES
Additional Information:David Giddings, an early prominent landowner, built this cream brick Italianate house which was later owned by the Reisses of Sheboygan and used to house their servants.

David Giddings acquired 400 acres, including the site on which this house sits, in 1838. He lived on this property until at least 1875, at which time this house was part of his 110 acre farm. Harvard Giddings succeeded his parents, operating the property as the Evergreen Dairy Stock Farm. In 1889, Giddings raised shorthorn and jersey cattle, as well as Hamiltonian horses. Harvard Giddings sold the property to Peter Reiss, a wealthy Sheboygan businessman, sometime between 1909 and 1914. Reiss remade the property into a modern dairy farm, with a rambling house (511 Giddings Ave) and a sprawling barn complex. The manager of Pinehurst Farms, as Reiss' model enterprise was called, lived in the Giddings Farmhouse until c. 1946, when the farm ceased operation. The property was subsequently subdivided.

Bibliographic References:"Architecture/History Survey." October 2002. Prepared by Elizabeth L. Miller.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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