1922 MADISON ST

1922 MADISON ST

Dane

Madison

1895

1988

duplex/two-flat

Queen Anne

Clapboard

No

Map code is 070922326115

"This house, one of the neighborhood's oldest, was built in 1895 by Wisconsin pioneer Daniel Sheldon. Sheldon came from central New York State in 1848, the year Wisconsin became a state. For almost fifty years he farmed more than two hundred acres in the area which is now Nakoma.

After he sold his farm, Sheldon bought land in the not yet developed Wingra Park area, and commissioned a carpenter from the eat side of Madison, to build his retirement home. He never lived there; the family lived in a barn on the property during the summer of 1895, and Daniel Sheldon died before the house was completed.

Originally, the house stood in four lots; the back garden, which extended to Monroe Street, was an apple and cherry orchard. The last of the three extra lots was sold in the 1930s. A flowering crabtree by the back door is the only reminder of the orchard, and beds of peonies and iris planted more than forty years ago by Sheldon's daughter remain.

Steeply pitched roof, scalloped clapboards, and intricately turned wood detail on the porch combine to create a charming example of Victorian architecture popular in Wisconsin at the turn of the century.

After Daniel Sheldon's death, the house became the property of his daughter and her husband, Jerome Holt. Holt and his partner, Edwin Cork, who lived on Van Buren Street, were carpenter builders who built or worked on a number of the houses in the Wingra Park neighborhood. The present owner of the house is the Holt's daughter, Daniel Shledon's granddaughter." Walking and Biking Through The Dudgeon Monroe Neighborhood, Dudgeon Monroe Neighborhood Association, 1979.

Walking and Biking Through The Dudgeon Monroe Neighborhood, Dudgeon Monroe Neighborhood Association, 1979. "Many Fine Houses." Wisconsin State Journal, July 8, 1895, p. 1.

Wingra Park Historic District

Oct 14, 1999

Apr 16, 1999

Yes