Ely Wright House

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Ely Wright House
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Location 901 6th St.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Coordinates 44°57′50″N89°37′22″W / 44.96389°N 89.62278°W / 44.96389; -89.62278 Coordinates: 44°57′50″N89°37′22″W / 44.96389°N 89.62278°W / 44.96389; -89.62278
Area less than one acre
Built 1881
Architect John Mercer
Architectural style Italianate
NRHP reference # 82000684
Added to NRHP March 1, 1982

The Ely Wright House is a historic house located at 901 Sixth Street in Wausau, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1982. [1]

Wausau, Wisconsin Place in Marathon

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Description and history

The fine Italianate style house is two stories, clapboard-clad, with a rectangular cupola. The hood moulds above the windows are decorated with a vine carving. The front door has an elliptical fanlight and sidelights framed by a porch with Doric columns. It was designed and built by John Mercer in 1881. [2]

Italianate architecture 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

Clapboard (architecture) wooden siding on a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping

Clapboard or clabbard, also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.

The house belonged to Ely Wright. Wright was a native of Athens, Pennsylvania who came to Wausau in the 1870s [3] and founded Wausau Iron Works, which built machinery for railroads and sawmills in Wisconsin. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ely Wright House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-12-23.
  2. ↑ Filipowicz, Diane H.; Immel, Carolyn (April 1980). "Wright, Ely, House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-12-23.
  3. ↑ "Wright, Ely, House - Wausau, WI". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  4. ↑ "Wausau Iron Works". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-12-23.
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