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119 S. JACKSON STREET
Florentine Frisque House
Built: 1893
Style: Queen Anne
Architectural Significance
Excellent Queen Anne example that remains one of the last if this caliber in the area. The front of the home has a three story tower on the on the east and south facing ells. The main entrance is in the base of the tower, with double doors, and an elaborate gabled roof entrance porch. Also featured are fish scale pattern wood shingles, wave pattern clapboards, and a rectinnear open porch above the bay window Of interest are the wall ements which are banded by wooden boards of the Stick Style period.
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901 Cherry Street
Central Assembly of God/
The Bridal Church
Built: 1862
Style: Greek Revival
Adaptive Reuse/Culturally Significant
Constructed in 1862 by Daniel Whitney, brother of cotton-gin inventor Eli Whitney, this clapboard church features pointed arch stained glass windows lining the nave on both sides, and also flank the steeple. A steeply pitched pyramidal tower rises from a hipped base with small gabled dormers. Aside from the stained glass windows, none of the inside of the church remains intact. It is currently the Bridal Chapel.
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301–305 E. Walnut Street
Northern Building
Built: 1930; 1995
Style: Art Deco
Architect: Selmer Company; Somerville Associates
Architecturally Significant
Buff colored limestone building resting on a polished granite plinth representing an excellent restrained example of the style. A decorative incised cut stone string course with a chevron and scallop pattern encircles the building above the display windows. Stylized floriated patterns of blooming flowers in colored stone are repeated in window panels on the side window groups. The cut stone entrance features two bronze lamps flanking the original wooden inner doors. Originally decorated elevator doors and marble walled entrance and vestibule remain intact.
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1040 South Van Buren
Mrs. John L. Jorgenson House
Built: 1921
Style: Prairie School
Architecturally Significant
Historic home in Astor Park combining the low horizontal lines of the Prairie style with architectural detail typical of the Mediterranean style. It is a brick construction with a hip roof, featuring horizontality of the roof line extending into one-story pavilions and the carport. This home was built by Mrs. John L. Jorgenson, who succeeded her husband as the president of Green Bay’s largest department store—Jorgenson-Blesch Co. After Mrs. Jorgenson died in 1935, the home was purchased by industrialist J.M. Conway—president of Charmin Paper Mills.
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345 S. Monroe Avenue
Raphael Soquet House
Built: 1897
Style: Queen Anne
Architect: George F. Barber (Designer)
Architecturally Significant/Adaptive Reuse
This mail-order home is illustrated as Design #33 in Barber’s The Cottage Souvenir, and is an elaborate example of “Steamboat Gothic.” The home is typical of Green Bay’s Queen Anne style homes, however the second floor are unique with extensive use of turned columns, open, elaborate porches, and variegated surface treatments. The original carriage house featuring a gable-roof remains intact on the property.
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615 N. Irwin Avenue
Fred Schleiss House/
Curly Lambeau Residence
Built: c1868
Style: Front Gabled
Socially Significant
Excellent example of an intact post-Civil War front gabled brick home. This house features semi-circular arched windows along with light colored handmolds. It also has social significance to the community as the home of Curly Lambeau, founder of the Green Bay Packers.
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130 N. Monroe Avenue
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Built: c1904
Style: Neoclassical Revival
Architecturally Significant
Significant as the only intact example of Neoclassical Revival applied as a church in the city. Features include a pedimented portico, cut stone Ionic columns, denticulated moulding, as well as a Greek key design decorative frieze band. Other noteworthy elements include original stained-glass window groups, and a polygonal dome metal roof. The original stucco exterior was replaced with light colored brick in the early 1990’s.
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800 Main Street
Whitney Park
Founded: c1829
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