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223 S 11TH ST

Historic Name:
HENRY G. WOHLHUTER HOUSE

Other Name:

Reference Number:
29572

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Property Location

Location (Address)

223 S 11TH ST

County

La Crosse

City/Village

La Crosse

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1913

Additions

Survey Date

1996

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Prairie School

Structural System

Wall Material

Stucco

Architect

Percy Dwight Bentley

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

A 'site file' exists for this property named 'Chase, Dr. Herbert H., House; Wohlhuter, Henry G., House'. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. In 1913, Chase, a dentist, and his friend Wohlhuter hired Bentley to design side-by-side houses for their families, and Bentley skillfully distilled the classic Prairie formula into a small-scale plan. The nearly mirror-image bungalows occupy narrow lots on either side of a shared driveway and stretch away from the street. Nearly every element of their design emphasizes horizontality: low hipped roofs with wide-overhanging eaves, light-colored bands of stucco interlaced with ribbons of windows, and below the stucco, contrasting bands of dark, horizontal lap-board. Upper stuccoed surface and window band visually compressed between board plane roof overhang and the clapboard covered tower surface below the windows; vertical projecting piers and the large outside wall chimney break the horizontal line; leaded glass in front porch; side entrance; essentially identical in plan except reversed, to the adjacent H.H. Chase House at 221 south 11th Street. Contemporary with and essentially identical in plan, except reversed, with the adjacent Chase House, Percy Bentley of the Bentley and Merman architectural firm designed the twin houses in 1913. As a model for many builders of vernacular Prairie school styled residences in the area, the Wohlhuter House is a significant example of a modest design by Percy Bentley, a local architect noted for his Prairie School work in La Crosse. Henry Drake was the builder. Harry Wolhuter was manager of the La Crosse Theater when this house was built. Cass and King St. H.D. National Register #: 97001410

Bibliographic References

A. City of La Crosse Tax Records, ARC Musphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. B. H. Allen Brooks, The Prairie School (New York: W.W. Norton, 1972). pp. 266-267. C. H. Allen Brooks, "Percy Dwight bentley at La crosse, The Prairie School Review" vol. IX, No. 3, 1972. LACROSSE TRIBUNE 5/28/1995. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. 5/6/1912 La Crosse Leader Press Perrin, Richard W. E., Historic Wisconsin Architecture, First Revised Edition (Milwaukee, 1976).

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Chase, Dr. H. H., and Henry G. Wohlhuter Bungalows

National Register Listing Date

Jun 30, 1983

State Register Listing Date

Jan 01, 1989

Contributing

Yes

house Prairie School

La Crosse
County

La Crosse
Community

1910-1919
Decade

National and State Register Listing

Unique ID
HI29572

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