North Broadway Street Historic District Explained

The North Broadway Street Historic District is a 28acres historic district in De Pere, Wisconsin which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It included 47 contributing buildings and seven non-contributing ones.^[1]

The district is located on the north side of De Pere. Contributing buildings within its boundaries were constructed from 1836 to 1923 and were built in a variety of architectural styles.^[2]

Buildings deemed to have "pivotal" historic importance within the district (with building # as in NRHP document, and photo # as in linked photos) are:

• Kellogg-McGeehan Residence, 515 N. Broadway St., a two-story frame house with, on its front facade, a projecting pavilion and a full-length one-story veranda^[1]
• J.S. Chase Residence, 602 N. Broadway St., a two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne house with a square tower. Its "architectural character" has been "compromised by siding"^[1]
• H.J. Wheeler Residence, 620 N. Broadway St., a brick house with a shingled mansard roof and a recessed corner tower (building #33, photo #34)^{[1] [3]}
• F.A. Dunham Residence, 639 N. Broadway St., a two-story-plus-attic house with a tower. Its interior was remodeled in 1925 to Stick/Shingle fashion.^[1]
• Randall Wilcox Residence, 707 N. Broadway St., with two-story central flanked by one-story wings. It has Greek Revival-style entablatures.^[1]
• E.E. Bolles Residence, 721 N. Broadway St., built as a large Queen Anne house, but its picturesque massing was reduced by early 20th-century renovations. It has a historic one-story carriage house at the rear.^[1]
• A.G. Wells Residence, 807 N. Broadway St., a large two-and-a-half-story "English eclectic manor of stone, with stucco and wood trim"^[1]
• John P. Dousman Residence, 813 N. Broadway St., a late Queen Anne cottage^[1]
• John S. Gittens Residence, 823 N. Broadway St., built as a two-and-a-half-story gambrel roof Colonial Revival, it received a gable-front compatible addition^[1]
• E.P. Smith Residence, 903 N. Broadway St., a red brick house with original interior woodwork and Adamsesque fireplace (building #23, photo #21)^[1]
• Capt. Joseph G. Lawton Residence, 935 N. Broadway St., a stone Italianate house whose appearance was accomplished in 1914 and 1920 remodelings. An earlier 1858 stone house, of Captain Joseph Lawton, appears not to have survived within.^[1]
• Gustave H. Fleck Residence, 432 N. Wisconsin St., with elements of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style^[1]
• F.E. White Residence, 421 Cass St., a two-story frame Greek Revival house with a veranda having square columns topped by square Doric capitals.^[1]
• Jacob Falk Residence, 321 N. Wisconsin St., a Queen Anne cottage with a corner tower and a veranda.^[1]

See also

• Otto and Hilda Gretzinger House, at 922 N. Broadway, across from several houses in this district, was separately listed on the National Register in 2011.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=83003368}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: North Broadway Street Historic District ]. National Park Service. Diane Filipowicz . August 1982 . April 4, 2018. With .
2. Web site: North Broadway Historic District. City of De Pere. 2018-04-04.
3. This might be deemed to be Second Empire in style.
4. Web site: 922 North Broadway. Wisconsin Historical Society. 2018-04-04.