Ok – so I expected that some of those Kozak properties were going to be of historic value. After all, as I was reminded on Friday, some of them are in the Fourth Lake Ridge Historic District . . . but I wasn’t prepared to find all so many of them listed in the Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory . . .
The following houses are in the Fourth Lake Ridge Historic District . . .
(Sorry the photos aren’t the greatest, between dodging traffic, avoiding taking pictures of people and moving cars, the trees, the sun and the shadows it created and using a camera phone, this is the best I could do . . . but it will give you a flavor of the homes.
Additionally, I’m don’t have any experience in historic research, but this is what I could find on my own.)
651 E. Gorham
1895 H Fletcher House
645 E. Gorham
1931 A. O. Fox Apartment House
625 E. Gorham
1909 Nathanial Crampton House
(Apparently known for attending every UW home football game from 1890 until his death in 1933. He was a member of the Capitol Police Force and a Capitol Guide. He came to Madison in 1850. He fought in the Civil War and shook Lincoln’s hand. He belonged to the GAR and was Mason. It appears he was involved in one of the first water controversies in Madison during the Capitol fire in 1904 which he discovered and there are several stories with his first hand account of what happened.)
623 E. Gorham
1902 August and Carolina Scheibel House
619 E. Gorham
1905 Minorah and Vincent Kubly House
(One of the original owners of Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig hardware store. In 1891 he and Louis Hirsig went to Monroe to learn the sheet metal trade. In 1902 they formed Wolff and Kubly at 136 S. Pinckney. In 1907 it became Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig. In 1909 they moved to the corner of Broom, Gilman and State. In 1919 they opened a second store on the square.)
615 E. Gorham
1913 Fred and Philomena Schmitz House
609 E. Gorham
1910 Theodore and Emily Wiedenbeck House
Theodore was the Vice President of the Union Trust Bank and President of Wiednebeck-Dobelin Co.
601 E. Gorham/323 N. Blair
1904 E.B. and Sophie Steensland House
(Started as the Secretary and later became president of the Savings and Loan Trust, which was started with his father in 1890.)
As far as I can tell, the following houses are not in the Fourth Lake Ridge Historic District but have some history behind them . . .
314 N. Blount St.
1894 Henry Fletcher House
319 N. Blair
1916 Lewis and Clara Giffert House
311 N. Blair
1852 Joseph Bayer House
309 N. Blair
1886 August Bayer House
602-04 E. Johnson
1885 Charles Hoebel Residence
606-08 E. Johnson
1921 Kenney Company Two Flat
610 E. Johnson
1900 John and Mary Eagan Residence
612 E. Johnson
1913 Fred Schmitz Residence
614 E. Johnson
1903 Christian P. Schubring Grocery Store
618 E. Johnson
1853 Collins-Farwell-Hendricks House
620 E. Johnson
1871 Carl Hoebel Residence
630 E. Johnson
1927 Harry and Ethel Church Residence
644 E. Johnson
1885 Linous Palmer
308 N. Blair St.
1877 R.R. Smith House
119 N. Franklin
1899 George H. & Dagmar Armbrecht residence
101 N. Franklin
1857 William F. Reiche residence
Born June 21, 1825, Died February 23, 1866. Attended German Methodist Church.
209-11 N. Blount
1912 Peter Lahm, Jr. Duplex
These were the houses I found no historic information on . . . but the assessors site says they were built in the following years:
315 N. Blair (built 1910)
520 E. Johnson (built 1885)
104-06 N. Blair St. (1947)
103-5 N. Franklin (1918)
710 E. Johnson (1907)
711-13 E. Johnson (1909)
707-09 E. Johnson (1880)
213-15 N. Blount St. (1909)
207 N. Blount (1925)
I couldn’t find any information on th1s house . . .
708/708 1/2 E. Johnson
