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In 1937, Keck created this relatively simple International Style house, with a dramatically curved glass-block solarium projecting from the central core. The Bellack House steps up from symmetrical one-story cubes at each end to a two-story cube at center. These cubes are made of stucco-covered steel panels and topped with flat roofs, so that the entire composition looks as if it were made of building blocks. Over the wings, the roofs form decks, enclosed by pipe rails, a nautical touch popular for modernistic houses. A tripartite picture window with a ladder-like series of squares running vertically down the center pierces each of the three building blocks.
Although Keck did not develop a passive solar design here as he later did for some clients, he fitted the windows with external aluminum Venetian blinds that roll up into overhead pockets by means of a worm gear operated from inside.
Altered International style house, built by the same architect that built the William Kellett House, Menasha was and is one of the few experimental houses in the city.
Willard Bellack was vice president of Jersild Knitting Mills.
The 1981 map code is 6/10 on city engineers base map. The 2004 map code is 156/20a.
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HI62174
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