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"The Greek Revival style Hause house was one of the first houses built in the new Greebush Addition. Its solid brick walls, heavy cut stone lintels and simple, dignified two-story design make it the most impressive of the several other surviving brick houses in the immediate vicinity built in the mid-1850s. These include the house directly behind at 1014 Emerald Street, built for bookbinder John and Dorothea Eberhard in 1855, and the James Blakely house located at 1140 Drake Street, which was built in 1857.
Each of these houses, and most of the other houses built in Madison in the 1850s, were influenced to some degree by the Greek Revival style--the first national style to be widely used in Wisconsin. Greek Revival style buildings are generally symmetrical in design, orderly in appearance, and feature regularly spaced door and window openings. The features most commonly associated with this style include: porticos and corner pilasters; prominent, generally front-facing gables framed with wide structural and decorative elements; low-pitched gable or hip roofs; and classically inspired cornices with end returns. Vernacular examples such as the Eberhard and Blakeley houses often make do with a limited number of Greek Revival details such as pedimented gable ends and returned cornices." The Greenbush-Vilas Neighborhood: A Walking Tour. Madison Landmarks Commission and the Brittingham-Vilas Neighborhood Association, 1991.
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