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Drawing

First Bank Building in De Pere

Date: 
Description: Pencil drawing of the building with a decorative frieze in a pediment above the columned entrance.
Photograph

McDonald Residence from Park Avenue and 2nd Street

Date: 1920
Description: Home of John McDonald, Park Avenue and Second Street. General U.S. Grant was a guest at this home at one time.
Photograph

Mapleside House

Date: 01 25 1970
Description: Mapleside, a 116-year-old Greek-revival, sandstone house at 3535 University Avenue which was built by Abel Dunning.
Photograph

The Pierce House

Date: 07 18 1971
Description: Exterior view of the Pierce House at 424 North Pinckney Street, which was designed by Samuel H. Donnell, an architectural partner of August Kutzbach (Kutzb...
Photograph

The Curtiss House

Date: 04 16 1972
Description: Exterior view of the Curtiss House at 1102 Spaight Street, which features a turret. The "Curtiss House" (named after the family which built it) is typical ...
Photograph

Storybook House

Date: 06 13 1973
Description: The design of the "Storybook House" at 2114 Van Hise Avenue, was inspired by fairytale drawings and French Norman architecture. The house was built of holl...
Photograph

Brown House Detail

Date: 06 08 1973
Description: One of four Ionic-style columns on the Greek revival Brown house at 116 East Gorham Street.
Photograph

Kendall House

Date: 07 15 1973
Description: Kendall House, 104 East Gilman Street. Built in the Italinate style in 1855 with French Second Empire Mansard roof added in 1873.
Photograph

Breese Stevens House

Date: 07 22 1973
Description: Exterior view of the Italianate-style house, 401 North Carroll Street, built for Daniel Tenney in 1863 and owned by Breese Stevens.
Photograph

Judson C. Cutter House

Date: 11 18 1973
Description: Judson C. Cutter house, 1030 Jenifer Street, built in 1884. The house was built with influences of American Stick Style architecture with lateral clap boar...
Photograph

Executive Residence

Date: 11 25 1973
Description: Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street, which housed 17 governors before it was sold to the University of Wisconsin in 1950.
Photograph

Meditteranean-Influenced House

Date: 05 05 1974
Description: House with an apparent Mediterranean, "High Renaissance" influence, 1122 Sherman Ave., built by Joseph E. Messerschmidt in 1922.
Photograph

Tiffany House

Date: 07 21 1974
Description: Tiffany House, a Cotswold cottage-style house at 1001 Seminole Highway.
Photograph

Italianate-Gothic Style Home

Date: 12 08 1974
Description: Exterior view of an Italianate-Gothic style house at 2709 Sommers Street, built in 1862 for Simeon Mills.
Photograph

Mini-Rooftop on a House

Date: 01 05 1975
Description: A peculiar mini-rooftop featuring a classical triangular pediment on a house at 124 North Baldwin Street.
Photograph

Gothic Revival Rooftop

Date: 04 13 1975
Description: The rooftop of a house at 753 East Gorham Street reflecting the Gothic revival style in its extensive use of glass, vaults, and pointed arches.
Photograph

English Georgian Details

Date: 08 03 1975
Description: Exterior of a house showing Georgian period influences including gable windows, Doric columns, and decorative arches.
Photograph

English Style House

Date: 09 14 1975
Description: House at 14 North Prospect Street displaying English characteristics, particularly the combination of timber and brick as building materials. The house has...
Photograph

House on State Street

Date: 09 21 1975
Description: Built in 1907, this house at 534 State Street featured Doric columns and a corner tower.
Photograph

19th Century Regency Style Entrance

Date: 11 02 1975
Description: Brick entrance of a house at 150 North Prospect Street. Its small, leaded windows, ironwork, and arch reflect the 19th Century Regency style.

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