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1839 N 74TH ST

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1839 N 74TH ST

Historic Name:
Edward J. and Ella Kearney House

Other Name:

Reference Number:
8966

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Property Location

Location (Address)

1839 N 74TH ST

County

Milwaukee

City/Village

Wauwatosa

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1906

Additions

1920

Survey Date

1995,2017

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival

Structural System

Wall Material

Brick

Architect

Charles Fitzgerald,Kirchhoff & Rose (1920)

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

Kearney was a founder of Kearney and Trecker in 1898. The ironwork by the pool was executed by Cyril Colnik. The solarium was enclosed in 1925. During the Depression, real estate man, Henry Marx and his wife Elizabeth (Davidson) Marx bought the property.

Bibliographic References

See Wauwatosa Historical Society Walking Tour pamphlet, 1980. Wauwatosa Landmarks, Wauwatosa Landmarks Commission, 1994. 2001 Wauwatosa Historical Society Tour of Homes. "Mr. & Mrs. E.J. Kearney have moved into their new home on 2nd Avenue," Wauwatosa News, 8 December 1906, page 1, col. 3. Note that 2nd Avenue was the previous name for 74th Street. 2015: A Citation in The Improvement Bulletin (Vol. 32, Dec. 1905 - May 1906), 10 February 1906, page 19, indicates that Charles Fitzgerald, Hathaway Building, was preparing plans for a brick, two-story veneer residence for E.J. Kearney in Wauwatosa. It is presumed that it was Fitzgerald who designed the original 1906 home. To date, little is known of Fitzgerald; however, he was born in 1848, the son of Michael and Marie Fitzgerald, in Stockbridge, Calumet County. He moved to Milwaukee to study architecture, where he remained until his death on 7 June 1915. His obituary was in the Chilton Times, 16 January 1915. Plans for the 1920 alterations (drawings are noted as dating to as late as 1925), including the addition of the solarium/swimming pool, are on file at the Wisconsin Architectural Archive.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Not Listed

National Register Listing Date

State Register Listing Date

Contributing

Yes

house Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival

Milwaukee
County

Wauwatosa
Community

1900-1909
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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