Property Record
103 W MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Dr. William and Mary A. Quivey |
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| Other Name: | Allen-Meredith Funeral Home |
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| Reference Number: | 84960 |
| Location (Address): | 103 W MAIN ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Evansville |
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| Year Built: | 1860 |
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| Survey Date: | 1977 |
| Historic Use: | carriage house |
| Architectural Style: | Other Vernacular |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property named 'Dr. William and Mary Quivey House'. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Evansville's historic district is unusually rich in architectural examples from the mid-nineteenth century through the early years of the twentieth. The district encompasses most of the original city plat, including the downtown area, three churches, a seminary, and several residential neighborhoods. These areas remain much as they did at the turn of the century, in large part because the city's development was unmarked by boom periods. Instead, it grew slowly to meet the needs of the surrounding countryside. Evansville began life as a rural market community in 1839, and it gradually developed into a processing center for the wheat and tobacco grown in the surrounding area. Even Evansville's chief industrial concern--Baker Manufacturing--served the agricultural community, producing windmills and pumps. The city is particularly well endowed with buildings in the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne modes. Most are simply typical of their era, but several, clustered especially on two blocks of Main Street, are outstanding. The two-story Dr. William and Mary Quivey House, constructed sometime before 1858, is an imposing Greek Revival building with a temple front. Doric columns with fluted shafts rise to support an entablature with triglyphs along the frieze. A triangular pediment with mutule blocks crowns the portico. After 1883, the house was enlarged, and the eastern two-story bay window was added. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |