Property Record
2014 CHAMBERLAIN AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Charles E. Allen House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 95349 |
| Location (Address): | 2014 CHAMBERLAIN AVE |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1910 |
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| Survey Date: | 1998 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Prairie School |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Alvan Small |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | University Heights Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/17/1982 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | "Charles E. and Genevieve S. Allen built this house about 1911 while ha was a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin. A more complex residential design than Alvan Small usually produced, the house has attic dormers which almost rest on the second floor windows, and give an unusually interesting facade to the house. A horizontal effect is achieved through the use of two different materials -- shingles on the first floor and stucco on the second. The same design technique was used on the house for Clarence S. Haen, the librarian for the College of Agriculture, whose Alvan Small-designed home almost abuts the rear lot line of the Allen House. Small, like his contemporary Louis Claude, had studied with Allen D. Conover (see the Buell House) while as undergraduate at Madison, and had then gone to Chicago to work with Louis Sullivan. His commitment to the forms and concepts of the Prairie School remained true to the last days of the design school's pre-eminence." Madison Landmarks Commission, University Heights: A Walk Through A Turn of the Century Suburb, n.d. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Madison Landmarks Commission, University Heights: A Walk Through A Turn of the Century Suburb, n.d. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |