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1228 SHERMAN AVE

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1228 SHERMAN AVE

Historic Name:
Bertha and John L. Erdall House

Other Name:

Reference Number:
78136

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Property Location

Location (Address)

1228 SHERMAN AVE

County

Dane

City/Village

Madison

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1895

Additions

Survey Date

1982

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Queen Anne

Structural System

Wall Material

Clapboard

Architect

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

A 'site file' exists for this property. 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. Map code is 0709-124-1015-0. The Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood: A Walking Tour: "The first house constructed on Sherman Avenue was this fine Queen Anne style house, which was built in 1895 for John L. Erdall, a prominent local attorney. Prior to that time, building along Lake Mendota shore between Brearly Street and the Yahara River would have been an impossibility due to the marshy condition of the low-lying land that bordered both sides of this willow-lined pleasure drive. In 1892, however, this land was purchased by the Willow Park Land Company, which began a program of dredging and filling that, by 1895, had made the land suitable for building. John Erdall was the corporate secretary of the Willow Park Land Company when his new house was being constructed. The designer of this house is not known but a good guess would be the Madison architectural firm of Conover & Porter, which was designing similar Queen Anne style houses at this time. Like many other Queen Anne style houses of this period, each story of the Erdall house is clad in a different siding material, in this case, narrow clapboards below and wood shingles above and in the gable ends. Other typical Queen Anne features of the house include its steeply pitched combination hip and gable roof and the placement of an octagonal tower on its asymmetrical main facade."

Bibliographic References

Tax records. City directory. The Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood: A Walking Tour, 1997, Madison Landmarks Commission.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Sherman Avenue Historic District

National Register Listing Date

Mar 22, 1988

State Register Listing Date

Jan 01, 1989

Contributing

Yes

house Queen Anne

Dane
County

Madison
Community

1890-1899
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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