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245 E DIVISION ST

Historic Name:
FRANCES THORNTON HOUSE

Other Name:

Reference Number:
52294

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Property Location

Location (Address)

245 E DIVISION ST

County

Fond du Lac

City/Village

Fond du Lac

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1927

Additions

Survey Date

1988

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival

Structural System

Balloon Frame

Wall Material

Clapboard

Architect

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

This two and one-half story Colonial Revival house has a steeply-pitched roof with projecting dormers. Both the main roof and dormer roofs have returned eaves. The house has regular fenestration, and first story windows are decorated with transoms and pedimented lintels. The main entrane is decorated with a frontispiece of pilasters, sidelights, entablature, and faux wrought-iron balcony. Sun rooms project off of both ends of the house. A two-story square portico dominates the front facade. It is made up of a flat roof, paneled frieze, and four colossal Tuscan columns. This house is architecturally significant and potentially individually eilgible for the National Register of Historic Places as a fine example of the Colonial Revival Style. The overall symmetry of the plan and details, the simple classical features, and particularly, the outstanding portico, are all fine and well-executed details of the style. This is a well-preserved and outstanding Colonial Revival house.

Bibliographic References

(A) FOND DU LAC REPORTER 8/17/1995. (B) FOND DU LAC CITY DIRECTORIES. (C) SANBORN-PERRIS MAPS - FOND DU LAC. (D) FOND DU LAC TAX ROLLS.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

East Division Street - Sheboygan Street Historic District

National Register Listing Date

Apr 17, 2010

State Register Listing Date

Feb 19, 2010

Contributing

Yes

house Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival

Fond du Lac
County

Fond du Lac
Community

1920-1929
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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