Property Record
305 EISENHOWER AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Frank Kemp House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 87971 |
| Location (Address): | 305 EISENHOWER AVE |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Janesville |
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| Year Built: | 1894 |
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| Survey Date: | 198920142025 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
| Architect: | Kemp, Frank ? |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Prospect Hill Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/5/1992 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 7/22/1992 |
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| Additional Information: | The Prospect Hill & Conrad Cottages Historic Districts: A Guide: "Architect Frank Kemp resided briefly in this house. The steeply-pitched gable roof with wide, sweeping eaves and sawtooth-shingled wall surfaces are of note. Kemp studied architecture in Milwaukee and St. Louis. He practiced in Madison, Janesville, and Beloit, and lived in Janesville between 1892 and 1896. He designed St. Mary's Catholic Church on Prospect Hill and a number of houses on Courthouse Hill. Between 1931 and 1960, 305 Eisenhower was the home of Nevada and Rose McCarthy. Nevada, a druggist, was an early collector of old Janesville photographs and views." This one-and-one-half-story-tall Shingle-Style-influenced Queen Anne Style house occupies a corner lot, has a multi-gable main roof, cut stone foundation walls, and a main façade that faces east onto Eisenhower Ave. The house was first surveyed in 1989, at which time its first story still retained its original narrow gauge wood clapboard siding. Since then, this story has been resided in vinyl clapboards. Its original wood shingle-clad second story and gable ends, though are still intact in 2025. |
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| Bibliographic References: | "Cultural Resources Report For the Proposed Talman House Telecommunications Facility in Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin." WHS Project #14-0719/RO. June 2014. Prepared by Marcy Prchal. The Janesville Historic Commission, Janesville, WI, The Prospect Hill & Conrad Cottages Historic Districts: A Guide, 1992. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |