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509-511 E BELOIT ST

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509-511 E BELOIT ST

Historic Name:
O. E. Ovestrud House

Other Name:

Reference Number:
85420

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Property Location

Location (Address)

509-511 E BELOIT ST

County

Rock

City/Village

Orfordville

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

Additions

Survey Date

1977,2021

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Gabled Ell

Structural System

Wall Material

Cream Brick

Architect

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

When first surveyed in 1977 a small clapboard-clad shed-roofed wing had already been added to the rear of the house and it is still extant today (2021) and has been resided in vinyl clapboards. 2021: This substantial two-story-tall Gable Ell Vernacular Form house has a cruciform plan, it rests on a cut stone foundation, and its walls are clad in cream brick, and they are sheltered by the house’s intersecting gables main roof. The main façade faces Beloit St., and it has a projecting two-story-tall center upright that is flanked on both sides by equal height two-story ells. On this façade, the first story of both of these ells contains an entrance door that is flanked by a segmental-arched window opening and these entrances are both sheltered by their original open wood porches, which still retain most of their elaborate decorative wooden elements. These porches are not equal in size, though, and it is not known if the building was originally organized as a duplex and served more than one family. Plat maps show that the house was already in existence by 1891, at which time it was owned by O. E. Ovestrud, and it was probably built ca.1875.

Bibliographic References

Orfordville Public Library. Local History Collection. Plat Book of Rock County, Wisconsin. Minneapolis: Charles M. Foote Co., 1891.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Not Listed

National Register Listing Date

State Register Listing Date

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house Gabled Ell

Rock
County

Orfordville
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