628 N 8TH ST

628 N 8TH ST

Manitowoc

Manitowoc

1865

2000,2022

house

Greek Revival

Balloon Frame

Aluminum/Vinyl Siding

No

Very fine and mainly intact example of the Greek Revival style. The main block is symmetrically composed with cornice returns. A one story polygonal bay is on the south facing facade. A flat roofed porch extends across the front of the main block meeting a projecting ell. The front entry has lights and a transom and all windows on this part of the house appear to be original and are 6/6 lights. The rear rectangular block, though of similar materials and the same basic design, appears to be a later addition as is the shed roofed screen porch in back of that.

This is the finest example of the Greek Revival style in the district and is significant as an intact example of this early style.

C.C. Barnes was a local physician who arrived in Manitowoc in the early 1850s. He was commissioned as a regimental surgeon and served in the Civil War, building this house after his rturn. He remained in Manitowoc until the early 1880s when he moved to Two Rivers, practicing medicine in that city until his death a few years later.

In business, C.C. Barnes and others formed the Bank of Manitowoc in 1858. Barnes served as its first president until called to war. The bank changed its name to the First Bank of Manitowoc in 1866 and failed in 1892.

A. County Tax Rolls. B. Falge, Louis J., History of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Vol. I, pp. 202, 205, 454.

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