Property Record
410 N LIVINGSTON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Steven and Frances Gilman House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 91755 |
| Location (Address): | 410 N LIVINGSTON ST |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1903 |
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| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Two Story Cube |
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| Wall Material: | Stucco |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Fourth Lake Ridge Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 2/26/1998 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 11/6/1996 |
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| Additional Information: | "In 1900 the Doyons decided to subdivide the land behind their house at 752 E. Gorham Street. This created four new lots stretching along the 400 block of North Livingston Street to Lake Mendota in what was then one of Madison's elite neighborhoods; these lots were soon acquired as home sites by prominent Madisonians. The earliest of these homes was the very fine house at 414 N. Livingston built for socially prominent piano instructor Ada S. Bird in 1901 as a cost of $6,000. This "Progressive" design is noteworthy for its hooded entrance porch and attic dormer, both features that are echoed in the dormers of the Kayser house across the street, which was also built in 1901. In 1903, 410 and 416 N. Livingston Street were built; the former for Frances and Steven Gilman, an attorney who afterwards became a UW professor of business administration and an important force in the creation of the UW business school, and the latter for Mary and George Welsh, a retired grocer. The last and most elaborate of these four houses is the lakeshore home built for Joseph and Emlen Davies in 1907. Emlen Knight Davies was the daughter of a wealthy lumber family. Davies was then a prominent corporate lawyer who later married cereal heiress Marjorie Merriwether Post and became U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union." Old Market Place Neighborhood walking tour guide. Madison Landmarks Commission and Old Market Place Neighborhood Association, 1991. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Old Market Place Neighborhood walking tour guide. Madison Landmarks Commission and Old Market Place Neighborhood Association, 1991. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |