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1029 N MARSHALL ST

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1029 N MARSHALL ST

Historic Name:
George W. Peckham House

Other Name:
Friendship House

Reference Number:
111227

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Property Location

Location (Address)

1029 N MARSHALL ST

County

Milwaukee

City/Village

Milwaukee

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1855

Additions

Survey Date

1984

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Italianate

Structural System

Wall Material

Stucco

Architect

Mygatt and Schmidtner

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

Peckham was born in 1795 in Rhode Island. He practiced law in Albany, New York before coming to Milwaukee in 1853. Committed suicide by jumping off the Oneida St. Bridge. Architectural Significance: This is an outstanding example of pre-Civil War Italianate residences. Its form is characteristic of the period with its square blockishness, projecting center gabled pavillion, and double stacked bays. This is in sharp contrast to the later assymetrical, more flamboyant Victorian Italianate. Designed by the architects Mygatt and Schmidtner, it is one of the very few extant from this period and is one of the last remaining major works of this early Milwaukee firm. It is in superb condition and exhibits original form and design. Historical Significance: George W. Peckham was a prominent attorney in the city of Milwaukee. Born in 1795 in Rhode Island he practiced law in Albany, NY before coming to Milwaukee in 1853. Peckham had an untimely death by committing suicide by jumping off the Oneida (Wells) Street bridge in 1873.

Bibliographic References

Milwaukee Sentinel 4/28/1855. Milwaukee Sentinel 12/4/1873, 8/2. Zimmermann, The Past in Our Present, v. 2, pp. 38-40. Milwaukee Journal June 25, 1972.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Not Listed

National Register Listing Date

State Register Listing Date

Contributing

house Italianate

Milwaukee
County

Milwaukee
Community

1850-1859
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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