Property Record
N1307 STATE HIGHWAY 14
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Cyrus & Mary Church House |
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| Reference Number: | 9745 |
| Location (Address): | N1307 STATE HIGHWAY 14 |
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| County: | Walworth |
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| Township/Village: | Walworth |
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| Town: | 1 |
| Range: | 16 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 21 |
| Quarter Section: | NW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1873 |
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| Survey Date: | 2010 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 1974-PAIRED SCROLLED BRACKETS UNDER EAVES This house was built by Cyrus & Mary Church by no later than 1873, as it is depicted in plat map of the same year. Born in Connecticut in 1817, Church is identified as one of the earliest settlers in the Town of Walworth, settling here in 1837. He first built a frame house, which was followed by the subject structure. He served as an early tax collector for the towns of Sharon and Walworth; he is also noted as instrumental in establishing churches and schools in the county. Church, a member of the local Baptist community, was a Prohibitionist. He was also identified as #28;among the most wealthy and Progressive in the State of Wisconsin.#29; He died in 1899. the 1913 photograph referenced above shows a more delicate, sawn-trim porch, with a slight shed-roof overhang and carved wooden supports. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A 1913 photo of the house is in the Local History Collection at the Walworth Memorial Library. History of Walworth County (1882), 799 Beckwith, A History of Walworth County (1912), 2:933 Combined Atlas Map of Walworth Wisconsin (Chicago: Everts, Baskin & Stewart, 1873). Local historian Nancy Alberth Lehman wrote a short book on Church, which is located at the Wisconsin Historical Society library. “Architecture/History Survey: Reconstruct USH 14: Illinois State Line To I-43.” WHS project number 11-0524/WL. July 2010, rechecked February 2011. Heritage Research, Ltd. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |