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Planning Services Department
0'1 Hall
50 West 13th Street
Dubuque, Iowa 52001-4864
(563) 5894210 office
(563) 589-4221 fax
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The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
City of Dubuque
City Hall-50 W. 13th Street
Dubuque, IA 52001
RE:
To place the West 11th Street Historic District on the National Register of
Historic Places
Dear Mayor and City Council Members:
The City of Dubuque Historic Preservation Commission has reviewed the above-
cited request. The application, staff report and related material are attached for
your review.
Discussion
Historic Preservation Consultant Jim Jacobsen presented the nomination and
spoke in favor the request.
Staff Member Wernimont reviewed the nomination, and the criteria for
significance. He noted that the HPC sent a letter to all the property owners in the
West 11th Street Historic District notifying them of the proposed National Register
Designation (see attached). He indicated that currently the West 11th Street
Historic District is a "city designated" Historic District. He indicated that Old Main,
Cathedral and Jackson Park are "city designated" Historic Districts that are also
National Register Historic Districts. He noted that listing of the West 11 th Street
Historic District to the National Register will not place any additional regulations
on properties. He noted that listing this district on the National Register makes
the properties eligible to apply for Federal and State Historic Preservation Tax
Credits for rehabilitation and Federal and State grants when available.
There were no public comments.
The Historic Preservation Commission discussed the request, noting that it
meets criteria for placement on the National Register of Historic Places.
Recommendation
By a vote of 6 to 0, the Historic Preservation Commission recommends the
nomination of the West 11th Street Historic District to the National Register of
Historic Places based on criteria C.
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May 20, 2004
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A simply majority vote is needed for the City Council to concur with the request.
Respectfully submitted,
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Christopher Wand, Chairperson
Historic Preservation Commission
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May 20, 2004
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
City of Dubuque
City Hall-50 W. 13th Street
Dubuque, IA 52001
RE:
To place the West 11th Street Historic District on the National Register of
Historic Places
Dear Mayor and City Council Members:
The City of Dubuque Historic Preservation Commission has reviewed the above-
cited request. The application, staff report and related material are attached for
your review.
Discussion
Historic Preservation Consultant Jim Jacobsen presented the nomination and
spoke in favor the request.
Staff Member Wernimont reviewed the nomination, and the criteria for
significance. He noted that the HPC sent a letter to all the property owners in the
West 11 th Street Historic District notifying them of the proposed National Register
Designation (see attached). He indicated that currently the West 11th Street
Historic District is a "city designated" Historic District. He indicated that Old Main,
Cathedral and Jackson Park are "city designated" Historic Districts that are also
National Register Historic Districts. He noted that listing of the West 11th Street
Historic District to the National Register will not place any additional regulations
on properties. He noted that listing this district on the National Register makes
the properties eligible to apply for Federal and State Historic Preservation Tax
Credits for rehabilitation and Federal and State grants when available.
There were no public comments.
The Historic Preservation Commission discussed the request, noting that it
meets criteria for placement on the National Register of Historic Places.
Recommendation
By a vote of 6 to 0, the Historic Preservation Commission recommends the
nomination of the West 11th Street Historic District to the National Register of
Historic Places based on criteria C.
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May 20, 2004
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A simply majority vote is needed for the City Council to concur with the request.
Respectfully submitted,
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Christopher Wand, Chairperson
Historic Preservation Commission
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CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
May 11, 2004
FROM:
Historic Preservation Commission ~
Wally Wernimont, Assistant Planner
TO:
SUBJECT: National Register Nomination for the West 11th Street Historic
Preservation District
The State Nominations Review Committee plans to consider the West 11th Street
Historic District for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places during
their June 11, 2004 meeting. As a participant of the Certified Local Government
Program, the City of Dubuque is required to review and comment on the
proposed National Register nominations of properties within its jurisdiction. The
State has provided copies of the nomination, photographs, and review form for
this nomination.
The Commission should review this nomination at a public meeting, which is
slated for May 19, 2004. The State is requesting the Commission review the
nomination, and then comment on whether the West 11th Street Historic District
meets the significance criteria (A,B,C, or D) for listing on the National Register of
Historic Places. The nomination indicates that the property is significant under
criteria C. Criteria C is a property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a
type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or
possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable
entity whose components lack individual distraction.
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Please review the attached documents and be prepared to recommend whether
the West 11th Street Historic District should be listed or not.
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CLG NATIONAL REGISTER REVIEW
CLG Name Dubuaue Date of Public Meeting AAPrf 1 ""/ 2".Ooc-(
Property Name
West Eleventh Street Historic District Rouahlv bounded bv Loras Blvd. Walnut Street.
Jefferson Street and Grove Terrace. Dubuaue. Dubuaue Countv
1. For Historic Preservation Commission:
Signature
Date s/rty
Print Name
Title
Reason(s) for recommendation:
2. For Chief Elected Local Official:
0 Recommendation of National Register eligibility
0 Recommendation of National Register ineligibility
Signature
Date
Print Name
Title
Reason(s) for recommendation:
3. Professional Evaluation
Name
0 Recommendation of National Register eligibility
0 Recommendation of National Register ineligibility
Signature
Date
Print Name
Title
Reason(s) for recommendation:
RETURN TO: State Historical Society of Iowa, ATTN: National Register Coordinator, 600 E. Locust, Des Moines,
IA 50319
Planning Services Department
0'1 Hall
50 West 13th Street
Dubuque, Iowa 52001-4864
(563) 589-4210 office
(563) 589-4221 fax
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May 4, 2004
Subject:
Listing of the West 11th Street Historic District
on the National Register of Historic Places
Dear Property Owner,
This letter is to inform you that the Historic Preservation Commission will review
the nomination to list the West 11th Street Historic District on the National Register
of Historic Places. The Cathedral, Jackson Park and Old Main Historic Districts
are "City designated" historic districts that are already listed on the National
Register. Currently, the West 11th Street Historic District is only a "City
designated" historic district.
The listing of the West 11 th Street Historic District on the National Register of
Historic Places will not place additional regulations on your property. Listing
makes properties in the district eligible to apply for Federal and State Historic
Preservation Tax Credits for rehabilitation. Listing also qualifies the property for
Federal and State grants when available.
Enclosed is a copy of the National Register Nomination Form for the West 11 th
Street Historic District.
The Historic Preservation Commission will review the nomination at the Carnegie
Stout Public Library Auditorium (3rd Floor) on Wednesday May 19, 2004 at 5:00
pm. You are invited to attend the meeting. Jim Jacobsen, historic preservation
consultant, will be giving a presentation about the history of the district.
If you have any questions feel free to contact Assistant Planner Wally Wernimont
at 563-589-4210.
Sincerely,
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Christopher Wand, Chairperson
Historic Preservation Commission
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A Division of the Iowa Department of cunural Affairs
Wally Wernimont
Dubuque HPC
Planning Service Department
City of Dubuque
City Hall
50 W 13th St
Dubuque IA 52001
RE:
The Architectural and Historic Resources of Dubuque, Iowa, 1833-1955
West Eleventh Street Historic District, Roughly bounded by Loras Blvd., Walnut Street,
Jefferson Street and Grove Terrace, Dubuque, Dubuque County
Langworth)' Historic District, Langworthy, West Third, Melrose Terrace, between hill and
West 5th, Alpine and Walnut between Solon and West Fifth, Dubuque, Dubuque County
Dear Mr. Wernimont:
The State Nominations Review Committee (SNRC) plans to consider the property referenced above for
nomination to the National Register of Historic Places during their June 11, 2004 meeting. As a
participant in the Certified Local Government Program, Dubuque is required to review and comment on
proposed National Register nominations of properties within its jurisdiction. The State is required to
provide you with a 60-day period for the your review, unless we mutually agree to expedite the process.
I am contacting you to ask that you initiate the review process for the Historic Preservation Commission.
Enclosed are copies of the nomination, photographs, and the review form. The review process will
require the following:
. The Historic Preservation Commission should schedule the review during one of their meetings.
Send a formal invitation to the Mayor and to the property owner/owners with a copy of the
nomination. If they are not familiar with the National Register, be sure to include an explanation.
Make sure that a copy of the nomination is available for public review prior to the meeting. For
example, leave a review copy at the courthouse or public library. Indicate in your meeting
announcement that a review copy of the nomination is available and where the review copy can be
found.
. The question to answer when reviewing the nomination is whether the nominated property meets the
National Register of Historic Places significance criteria. If the Commission feels that the
nomination makes the case for meeting significance criteria, the Commission should check the box
recommending that the property be listed. If the Commission feels that the property does not meet
the significance criteria, then check the box recommending that the property not be listed. The
Mayor should use the same approach when reviewing the nomination.
. You might want to invite the individual who prepared the nomination to attend the public meeting
and present the nomination. Keep a record of the meeting (copy of notice, agenda, minutes, list of
600 EAsrLocuSTSTREET, DES MoINES, IA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-51l1
attendees). At the conclusion of the meeting, the Commission should make a motion regarding their
recommendation. The Chainnan of the Commission will complete Item #1, the Commission's
portion of the review form. Be sure to fill in the date of the public meeting, sign the signature line
and record any comments that were made. If the Mayor attended the public meeting, inquire if
he/she is prepared to complete Item #2 on the review fonn.
. In the event that the Mayor was unable to attend the meeting. The Commission Chairman should
forward the Review fonn to the Mayor for review and comment. Have the Mayor sign the fonn and
return them to the Historic Preservation Commission.
. Item #3 on the Review fonn asks for the review and comment of a preservation professional. If your
commission does not have a professionally qualified historian or architectural historian who can
complete this part of the fonn, you may leave Item #3 blank and I will arrange to have a State staff
member complete that part of the fonn.
. After you have completed Items #1 through #2 (through #3 if a preservation professional is
available), please make a copy of the completed review fonns for your file and send the original
copies ofthe completed fonns to me. The fonns need to be returned at least two weeks before the
State Nominations Review Committee meeting so they may be processed and mailed to the State
Nominations Review Committee to be reviewed before their June 11, 2004 meeting.
. The Commission should keep the nomination and photographs. File them together in your inventory,
as you will need the infonnation for future reference. If a State preservation professional was
needed to complete Item #3 on the review fonn, I will return a copy to the commisSion for filing.
If the Historic Preservation Commission and the Mayor disagree with one another on the property's
National Register eligibility, both views will be presented to SNRC for their consideration during review
of the nomination. Ifboth the Historic Preservation Commission (by Commission majority) and the
Mayor do not consider the property eligible for National Register listing, we must halt the nomination.
Be advised that when a nomination is halted, the property owner, the person who prepared the
nomination or any interested party may appeal the decision. In addition, the nomination will still go
forward to the National Park Service for an official "Determination of Eligibility."
Please contact KenyMcGrath at 515/281-6826 with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
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Elizabeth Foster Hill
Tax Incentive Programs Manager/
National Register Coordinator
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NPS Form 10-900
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United States Department of the Interior
National Park SeIVÎCe
MAR 3 0 2004
National Register of Historic Places
Registration Form
This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National
Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16AI. Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering
the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "NIA" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural
classification, materials and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative
items on continuation sheets INPS Form 10-g00a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items.
1. Name of Property
historic name West Eleventh Street Historic District
other names/site number
2. Location
street & number
llilðJ not for publication
city or town
Dubuaue
llilðJ vicinity
state
Iowa
code ~ county
Dubuaue
code ~ zip code
3. State/Federal AgencY Certification
As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. I hereby certify that this W nomination
U request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register
of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the
property ug meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant
U nationally U statewide ug locally. (U see continuation sheet for additional commentsl.
Signature of certifying officiallTitle
Date
State or Federal agency and bureau
In my opinion, the property [XJ meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. IU See continuation sheet for additional
comments.J
Signature of certifying official/Title
Date
State or Federal agency and bureau
4. National Park SeIVice Certification
hereby certify that the property is:
U entered in the National Register.
U See continuation sheet.
U determined eligible for the
National Register.
U ~ee continuation sheet.
U determined not eligible for the
National Register.
U removed from the National
Register.
U other, lexplain:)
Signature of the Keeper
Date of Action
West Eleventh Street Historic District
Name of Property
Dubuaue Dubuaue County
County and State
5. Classification
Ownership of Property
(Check as many boxes as applyl
[2g private
U public-local
U public-State
U public-Federal
Category of Property Number of Resources within Property
(Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.)
U building(s) Contributing Noncontributing
[2g district 191 61
U site
U structure
U object
buildings
2
sites
32
structures
objects
224
64
Total
Name of related multiple property listing
(Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.)
Number of contributing resources previously listed
in the National Register
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6. Function or Use
Historic Functions
(Enter categories from instructions)
Current Functions
(Enter categories from instructions)
Domestic/Sinaie Dwellina
Domestic/Sinale Dwellina
Domestic/Multiole Dwellina
Domestic/Multiole Dwellina
Domestic/Secondary Structure
Domestic/Secondary Structure
CommerciallTrade/Soecialty Store
Commercial/Trade/Specialty Store
T ra ns oortatio n/Pedestrian-related
T ransoo rtatio n/Pedestrian-rel ated
Landscaoe/Park
7. Description
Architectural Classification
(Enter categories from instructions)
Materials
(Enter categories from instructions)
Early Republic/Federal
foundation stone
Mid-Nineteenth Centurv/Gothic Revival
walls
brick
Mid-Nineteenth Century/Italian Villa
roof
other
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Narrative Description
(Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.)
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. Name of Property
8. Statement of Significance
Applicable National Register Criteria
(Mark "x' in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property
for National Register listing.)
U A Property is associated with events that have made
a significant contribution to the broad patterns of
our history.
U B Property is associated with the lives of persons
significant in our past.
[2S] C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics
of a type, period, or method of construction or
represents the work of a master, or possesses
high artistic values, or represents a significant and
distinguishable entity whose components lack
individual distinction.
U D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield,
information important in prehistory or history.
Criteria Considerations
(Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.)
Property is:
U A owned by a religious institution or used for
religious purposes.
U B removed from its original location.
U C a birthplace or grave.
U D a cemetery.
U E a reconstructed building, object, or structure.
U F a commemorative property.
U G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance
within the past 50 years.
Narrative Statement of Significance
(Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.)
Dubuoue. Dubuoue CountY
County and State
Areas of Significance
(Enter categories from instructions)
Architecture
Period of Significance
c.1847-1954
Significant Dates
N/A.
Significant Person
(Complete if Criterion B is marked above)
N/A
Cultural Affiliation
Architect/Builder
Guilburt. W. F.
Heer, Fridolin
9. Major Bibliographical References
Bibliography
(Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.)
Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data:
U preliminary determination of individual listing [2S] State Historic Preservation Office
(36 CFR 67) has been requested U Other State agency
U previously listed in the National Register U Federal agency
U previously determined eligible by the National U Local government
Register U University
U designated a National Historic Landmark U Other
U recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: #
U recorded by Historic American Engineering Record #
West Eleventh Street Historic District
Name of Property
DubuQue DubuQue Countv
County and State
10. Geographical Data
Acreage of Property
36.55 acres
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Verbal Boundary Description
(Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.!
Boundary Justification
(Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet,)
11. Form Prepared By
name/titie
James E. Jacobsen
organization
Historv Pavs! Historic Preservation Consultinq Firm
city or town
Des Moines
date March 29. 2004
telephone 515-274-3625
state IA zip code 50312-2415
street & number 4411 Inaersoll Avenue
Additional Documentation
Submit the following items with the complete form:
Continuation Sheets
Maps
A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.
A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources.
Photographs
Representative black and white photographs of the property.
Additional items
(Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items)
Property Owner
(Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.!
name
see attached list
street & number
telephone
city or town
zip code
state
Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate
properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a
benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.),
Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing
instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of
this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127: and the Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects 11024-00181, Washington, DC 20503.
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West Eleventh Street Historic District
Dubuque County, Iowa
7. Narrative Description:
Architectural Classification, Continued:
Late VictorianlItalianate
Late Victorian/Second Empire
Late Victorian/Queen Anne
Late Victorian/Shingle Style
Late 19th and 20.' Century Revivals/Colonial Revival
Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Tudor Revival
Late 19th and 20th Century RevivalslMission/Spanish Colonial Revival
Late 19th and 20th Century American Movements/Bungalow/Craftsman
OtherIMinimal Traditional type
OtherNernacular/Side Gable
OtherN ernacular/Gable Front
OtherN ernacularrr -Plan
Materials, Continued:
Foundation
Foundation
Walls
Walls
Walls
Walls
Walls
Roof
brick
concrete
wood/shingle
concrete
metal/aluminum
synthetics/vinyl
stucco
tile
The City of Dubuque is located in northeast Iowa. Dubuque County is the easternmost county in the third tier of
counties running south from the Minnesota (northern) state line. That county assumes a triangular half-county footprint due to
its presence along the western shore of the Mississippi River. That river flows in a southeasterly direction along the eastern
edge of the county and Dubuque is located mid-paint along its course. The City of Dubuque originally comprised settlement
along a broad and elongated river terrace that lay below and east of an unbroken line of commanding bluffs. This bluff ITont
was interrupted by a number of deep eroded ravines and the earliest trade routes used these to surmount the bluff. All of the
many railroads which served the city necessarily avoided the bluffs by circumventing them to the north and south. At the same
time a dispersed lead mining industry as well as a developing agriculture encouraged bluff top residency and ITom the very
earliest years, vernacular and high style houses were built along and well to the west of the bluff front. The city proper
expanded to the north, along the broad flat Couler Valley and to the northeast along Eagle Point. The commercial and industrial
centers of the city were necessarily relegated to the lower elevations of the city core. The visitor to Dubuque will encounter a
bewildering mix of house types and ages in the areas outside of the city core. The exceptions to this pattern, concentrations of
residences having shared physical attributes and dates of cons1ruction, have been identified as areas being worthy of designation
as historic districts. The map shown below, presents the boundaries of the established and proposed historic districts. The
Langworthy and West II th Street districts represent proposed bluff top residential districts. A third bluff top district, Fenelon
Place, is located at the upper end of the Fourth Street Elevator, west of Cathedral District. The former two districts are being
nominated at this time. Fenelon Place District is significant as an early and direct elevated residential area for the leading
merchants and industrialists ofthe city. It developed in the last quarter of the 19th Century. Cathedral and Jackson Park
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districts are both National Register listed districts. The Cathedral district is typified by vernacular brick duplexes that are set
close together. It was a predominantly Jrish and Catholic neighborhood, with only the Catholic cathedral within its bounds.
Jackson Park, to the north, embraced a broad range of church and other institutions and wealthier and more diverse population.
Both districts boasted their own patterns of mansions and high-end academic architecture. The Old Main commercial district
contains the best surviving early examples of commercial architecture. The districts map shown below appears to show a
shared boundary between Jackson Park (District #1) and this one (District #2), but this district is dramatically elevated above
Jackson Park.
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Dubuque's historic districts.
Key: I-Jackson Park (NRHP), 2-West II th Street, 3-Langworthy,
4-Cathedral (NRHP) and 5-OId Main (NRHP).
(Map prepared by the City of Dubuque, 2004)
The West Eleventh Street District occupies a prominent hilltop location in the middle of Dubuque's West Hill area. It
is one of two proposed bluff top residential districts that are being proposed for National Register listing. Two listed districts,
Jackson Park and Cathedral, abut the base of the bluffs which border the downtown proper. The West Eleventh Street District
has its eastern boundary on and along the bluff line. At the time when the district was first being built up, the area around the
city was entirely denuded of trees due to the insatiable appetite for wood fuel for the lead smelters. Consequently the earliest
houses on or behind the bluffs enjoyed an unobstructed eastward view of the Mississippi River Valley and the Wisconsin hills
prior to reforestation, which took place by the turn-of-the century. The southward view was generally abandoned in later years.
Cottages early clustered along Rock and East Rock streets, above and north ofHi11 Street, but all but one of these (638 Wilbur)
disappeared with the closing off of those streets. Houses that fronted east along the southern half of Grove Terrace were re-
fronted westward when Grove Terrace was laid out. Only along the north half of Grove Terrace, where there were no
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intervening houses along the east side of the street, did a range of impressive late Victorian mansions retain both their visual
prominence and their view shed.
South bluff front, view northwest from West 8 Street, c.1890
538 Wilbur is the cottage with the wrap-around porch, left of center
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College)
The West Eleventh Street Historic District gains its name from its historical association with the fonner West Eleventh
Street Elevator. TIlls street is interrupted by the rising bluffs immediately west of the downtown proper and it resumes, fonning
the east/west backbone of the district. The district occupies high ground that includes the bluff front to the east. Grove TetTace,
a later street, runs north/south two-thirds of the way up the bluff front. HigWand Place, the older street, runs along the bluff top
west and parallel to Grove Terrace. Chestnut and Arlington streets are east/west cross streets that run north of and parallel to
West Eleventh. Both are slightly lower in elevation, Arlington is considerably lower than Chestnut. Loras Baulevard, including
properties on both sides of it between Bluff on the east and just east of Prairie on the west, fonns the north district boundary.
Dell Street is a glorified alley, and runs north/south to the west of Highland Place. Prairie, which jogs east and continues south
as Spruce and Walnut are the only north/south running through streets. Both run along a level plateau top, rising dramatically to
the south of Loras, and dropping away in the same manner south of West Eleventh. Two ridges or bluff fronts fonn a right
angle at the southeast corner of the district. The fIrst, fronting east, is comprised of Grove TetTace and HigWand Place. The
second, fronting south, is comprised of West Eleventh, Jefferson and fInally Wilbur streets. These step down successively to
the south. When treeless, as of the mid-19th Century, early houses on both of these fronts were readily viewed from the city
proper and offered spectacular views. The southeast portion of the district is a minor maze of angled and steep streets. Alice
and then Olive, going east to west, connect West Eleventh with Wilbur and then Jefferson successively. This area boasts some
of the districts most substantial and striking stone retaining walls at Alice and Wilbur.
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Spruce Street descends to University, view south (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The district contains 176 single and multi-family buildings, the majority of which are single-family residences. There is
but one apartment building, a recent motel-like design at 635 West II'" Street, four newer four-plexes are located on Olive and
Alice streets. The former single-family residence at 605 West II'" has been converted to apartments (many other houses were
similarly broken up, a nwnber remain so while others have been converted back to single-family occupancy, architecturally they
read as individual houses). There are 46 duplexes, the majority of which cluster along Arlington (six), Chestnut (six), Jefferson
(nine), Loras (11), Walnut (four) and West II'" (four) streets. This distribution places these duplexes around the periphery of
the district and particularly in the southwest part of the district. Duplexes range from the vernacular level of design to the
academic, the latter range being represented by two examples located along Highland Place. There are just three tri-plexes in
the district, 483-89-95 and 530-60 Loras, and 1179-85-95 Walnut. These patterns are generally reflective of Dubuque's earlier
residential architecture, save for the predominance of single-family residences.
In contrast to the Jackson Park and Cathedral historic districts, located on the low terrace below the bluffs, this district
is predominantly of frame construction, there being 106 frame and 70 brick, stucco and stone principal buildings. There is just
one stone building (1243 Walnut). Each building material is visually dominant in certain areas of the district. Walnut,
Arlington, Chestnut (north side), Grove Terrace, and the west portion of West II'" streets are all predominantly infilled with
frame houses. The mix of stone and brick construction is fairly even along Jefferson and Wilbur streets. In sharp contrast,
Highland Place is exclusively of brick (one stucco Spanish Eclectic design) construction. Most ofthe frame construction
represents vernacular house types although the large mansions along Grove Terrace, north of West 11'" Street, are all of frame
construction. Brick construction is associated with duplex house types and it is no surprise then that the houses along Loras
Blvd., particularly towards the eastern end, are mostly brick duplexes. Because larger buildings tend to be of brick
construction, the district is visually perceived as being fairly equally of brick and frame composition.
Also in contrast to the Cathedral Historic District, the houses in the West II'" Street District are visually distanced, both
in tenns of physical as well as vertical separation. The latter measure is most apparent along West II th Street, Loras Blvd.,
Highlarid Place, and Grove Terrace. This vertical distinction is gained both between adjacent properties and between either side
of north/south running streets. Grove Terrace is the most extreme example, where massive houses are both elevated and
unopposed by any opposing houses to the east. Highland Place and Dell streets are single-sided east fronting rows of house
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lots, with houses located atop stacked terrace levels. Short cross streets, particularly Dell and Spruce, offer the steepest street
surfaces in Dubuque, which is no small claim. Distances between houses are discussed in the plat description of the district (see
below). The most visually compact arrays of houses are to be found where duplexes predominate, particularly along Loras
Blvd.
The district contains a relatively small number of outbuildings, particularly historical ones. Just 67 garages and sheds
are to be found and the majority ofthese are of generally later date. This low count is reflective of Dubuque in general, where
on-street parking has always been the rule and many houses simply lack alley access or ground for dTiveways. Many early
outbuildings were of frame construction and these have not .survived.
The district represents an amalgam of small plats and there is no overarching pattern. Two constants across the district
are the plateau that defines it topographically and the interacting streetscape. The streetscape is far from the grid model, but
streets connect sufficiently to tie the whole together. A total of 13 additions and subdivisions comprise the district. There is no
standard lot size nor is there even unifonn street widths along the same named street. While typical of the west part of the city,
the effects are mitigated by the relatively level land that comprises the majority of the district.
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The sewer map shown above more clearly illustrates the general drainage pattern of the district. The majority ofthe
area drains to the northeast, east and north. Lesser drainages flow to the southeast via Julien Avenue, following Walnut,
Jefferson and Wilbur streets.
Architectural StvIes:
The architectural significance of the West Eleventh Historic District has been attested to by successive historians.
Lawrence Sommer, Dubuque's first historic preservation planner and now Nebraska's State Historic Preservation Officer, first
identified the potential district following the completion of the fITst architectural municipal survey in 1973. Bruce Kriviskey
conducted the first professional architectural survey of Dubuque in 1978 and he concurred with the finding that the district
contained an excellent array of well preserved residential architectural examples. It is noteworthy that just three bluff top
districts were so identified out of a very large residential area. The architecture of this part of the city is greatly intermixed,
with all periods, types and styles co-existing, in small and large scale. Arterial streets naturally tend to be the locations for the
earlier examples. Brick houses tend to be less common and all or most of the districts, tend to possess higher proportions of
brick construction. Dubuque's elevated neighborhoods are further defined by topography and association with institutions.
Deep ravines and steeply pitched streets and building sites combine with a meandering streets. Houses were built wherever they
could be fit and only a few areas hold together visually as a result. Institutions, educational, health and religious, are literally
everywhere and their proximity and association further define many neighborhoods. The West 11th Street District is defined by
its association with Loras College (fonnerly St. Joseph's College) which is immediately northwest of the district.
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The original 1973 survey identified some 500 architecturally significant properties in Dubuque. Unlike many surveys
of that time, this survey was sympathetic to vernacular as well as the more academic architecture. While the latter dominated
within the survey ratings, it was far more inclusive in its range. The survey covered all property types but was dominated by
residential buildings. Buildings were rated on a four-point scale, with the lower number being the highest ranking. Thirty-eight
of the 500 properties were located within the West 11th Street District. Fourteen houses were included in the #2 ranking, I while
23 others warranted a #3 ranking." A district built around the former group would have produced a district focused on Grove
Terrace and Highland Place with a scattering of key buildings along West 11th, Walnut and Prairie streets. The latter group
included eight more Grove Terrace and Highland Place addresses, but also included nine buildings on Loras Blvd. Collectively,
the proposed district encompasses all of these buildings.
The West Eleventh Historic District, typical of Dubuque, embraces a broad range of house styles and types, but
collectively the whole is both representative of period local architecture and unified in its visual presentation. Some of the
city's best examples of Victorian era residential architecture grace the bluff fTonts along the eastern and southern district edges.
In contrast, numerous vernacular fTame and brick houses predominate in the northern and western reaches of the neighborhood.
Many houses are of a surprisingly early construction date despite their considerable distance fTorn and elevation above the city
proper. These are balanced by later date houses, although the district was fairly solidly infilled by 1910.
The district was already well developed as a residential area prior to the Civil War, although it would appear that the
majority of the houses of that period were of fTame construction and have not survived. Many much more pretentious houses
have also disappeared and have been modified orreplaced. Two examples of the Federal style survive, 583 Jefferson (pre-
1872) and 559-61 Chestnut (pre-I 889). Both were likely duplexes fTom the start and each has a six-bay fTont with centered
entry doors. Both have stepped end walls and chimney pairs at each gable end. 583 Jefferson has wooden lintels, while 559-61
West II th has cast iron lintels with engaged spring stones (these are probably secured onto wooden lintels).
559-61 Chestnut (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003)
Many Dubuque ltalianate style designs were modified into a Queen Anne fTee classic or Neo-Classical design and there
are seven excellent examples of this design evolution in the district. Most of the conversions took place c.1910. Naturally
many more houses gained Neo Classical fTont porches around this time. The seven Italianate to Neo Classical examples are,
1510,563 West lIth; 632 Chestnut, Il05, 1203, 1207, 1295 Grove Terrace, Il25-33, 1163, 1295 HigWand Place, 597 Loras, 1025 Wamut,
1209, 1295 Prairie.
2589 West I1 th, 637-41 Arlington, 970-72, 975, !O83, 1095, 1155 Grove Terrace, 1175-93, 1209, 1245 Highland Place, 561, 571 Jefferson,
407-10,445,460-64,465-69,489,509,530-60,533-61, 575 Loras, 1075 Wamut, 1206 Prairie.
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1175-93 Highland, 1209 Highland, 636 Loras, 970 Olive, 1209 Prairie and 605 West 11 "'. The Italianate duplex at 1133-35
Highland is an unusual example of a high end Italianate style duplex that went its separate ways over time, the south half taking
on a Queen Anne style makeover c.1890. Finally 1245 Grove Terrace is an example of the later repudiation oflarge houses by
popular tastes. A massive three-story Queen Anne design was reduced to a two-story Craftsman-like residence in 1935. The
latter example is non-con1ributing given this drastic change.
1209 Prairie (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The Italianate Villa and Italianate styles are very well represented in the dis1rict. Six houses have been assigned very
early building dates; 636 West Eleventh, c.1848, 596 West Eleventh, 1851, 1245 Highland, 1860, 1163 Highland, c.1865, 1209
Highland, c.1856/1865, and 658 Chestnut, 1870. Thirteen other examples were all extant as of 1872, 480 Arlington is dated to
1875, 15 examples pre-date 1889, and two examples pre-date 1909.
There are four examples of the Italian Villa style. 1209 Prairie (pre-l 872) is a two-story brick center hall five-bay wide
side gable plan with a low profile belvedere. 907 Olive (pre-l 872) has the same core plan with a through cornice gable front
dormer. The north wing has twin low profile belvederes. This house originally fronted east and requires further investigation.
597 Loras (1401 Henion) (pre-1889) is a classic two-story cubic plan with a high square airy belvedere. The house at 1170
Highland (pre-l 889) is a massive square two-story hip roof plan, six bays wide, with a high profile belvedere.
597 Loras (1401 Henion) (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
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1175-93 Highland (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are ten brick examples of two-story Italianate duplexes, all but one (590-98 Loras, 1896) having plain side gable
roofs with bracketed eaves (two, 465-69 Loras and 508-10 Chestnut, have lost their brackets). All but one has separate centered
twin front entries. All have [mished water tables and raised stone foundations. One, 407-09 Loras (pre-I 872), has twin front
bays. Three examples have ornate carved stone lintels (414-16 and 465-69 Laras have the same lintels, inscribed and
pedimented, with pointed end). Two examples have simple double rowlock brick window arches on the façade openings. 575-
83 Loras (1886) and 533-41 Loras (1886) have stepped end walls and an undulating frieze base that traces the rounded stone
lintels beneath it. Two examples, 533-41 Loras and 525 Loras (pre-I 889) have permastone fronts and are non-contributing
properties. The permastone covers only the facades and the bracketed eaves were not removed. If the covering was removed as
it has been in two cases in the Jackson Park and Cathedral districts, both would be contributing buildings.
575-83 Loras (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
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465-69 Loras (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
Two shorter Italianate two-story brick side gable plans are five bays in width and have a paired centered entrance. 464 Loras
(1875) has a particularly squarish core plan. Both it and 460 Loras (1886), the other example, featUTe cast iron pedimented
lintels. The latter example has a particularly well preserved porch and original front doors. The two buildings stand together on
the south side of Loras.
460 Loras (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are two frame examples of this form. 655-57 Jefferson (pre-l 886) is likely a Modified Gothic example, with its centered
through cornice front dormer. 653-55 Chestnut (pre-l 889) has gained two mis-matched dormers and its façade has been altered.
Halfof its 2/2 windows survive as do its rounded wood window arches.
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1207 Grove Terrace (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
1295 Prairie (c.1871) is an amalgam of the side gable fonn with the addition of a centered ftont gable wing. The early
date of its design is reflected in its broadly projecting eaves, its attic oculus end lights and its paneled brickwork
1295 Prairie (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are thirteen two-story gable ftont brick Italianate style examples, all side hall plans, six with left-hand and seven
with right hand entries. At least half ofthese examples have finished stone water tables and raised stone foundations and three
have ftont basement windows. This type tends to not have elaborate stone lintels. Two examples have straight stone lintels and
one of these, 459 Loras (1870), has an attic ftont oculus light. Four examples have slightly rounded stone lintels, 6555 Chestnut
(pre-1889) has straight cast iron lintels, and the remainder, plain double rowlock brick arches. Two examples have double
entries and another has a single entry with transom and sidelights. Originally these houses had no porch or a small entry porch
or canopy. There are eight ftame equivalent two-story gable ftont examples and these tend to have the narrower ltalianate
elongated lower level ftont windows. The house at 1090 Grove Terrace (-1872) has a center hall, 580-82 Loras (-1909), a right
hand, and the remainder left hand side hall entries. The house at 1073 Spruce (pre-1909) is of special interest given its stone
first floor/basement and ftame superstructure. It too has 2/2 Italianate windows. The house at 517 Laras (1886), is an
interesting ftame example, while modified, there is a surviving Palladian-like triple window attic light and the upper ground
level windows were all originally round-topped, and the openings had a very unusual Palladian-like patterning. It is in the
process of being restored.
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1295 Highland (pre-l 872), is a two-story brick L- or T -plan. The front wing is the standard gable front with a splendid
wrap-around porch. The house is prominently sited on the front bluff.
636 West Eleventh (1870) is a frame gable front story-and-a halfItalianate style version, unusual in terms of scale and a
rare diminutive early frame example. It is another side hall plan and features elaborate rounded upper front lights.
636 West Eleventh (photo by Betty McAndrew, May 1986).
The Second Empire style has four examples in the district. The house at 970-72 Grove Terrace (pre-l 872) occupies a
prominent southeast comer location within the district, overlooking the city. It originally fronted east and it has lost a floor
level. An attached two-story wing with Mansard dates to c.1909. 563 West Eleventh (1875) is a large two-story brick L-plan
with a bellcast Mansard roof. 584 West Eleventh (pre-1889) has a three-bay wide side hall plan and the same rooffonn. 1025
Walnut (1873-1888) is most unusual, combining an angled comer tower with a two-story rectangular brick plan. Its roof has a
convex profile. The house at 982 Grove Terrace (pre-l 886) has a Mansard roof on a single-story plan but it is obscured by a
recent front addition.
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1025 Walnut (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The Mansard roof farm is continued in use in Dubuque well beyond the time period usually allocated to the Second
Empire style. What appears to be a localized style is the "Modified Gothic," This is a local term to a range of buildings with a
combination oflarge size, the Mansard roof (whole or just the attic front), a through cornice front dormer, painted window tops
or pointed pediments on a central dormer window set, and ornamental open truss work in the gable or dormer gable ends. The
same style, so described in period newspapers, is found in the north end of the Jackson Park District, so these two district
examples, 663-65 West Eleventh (pre-l 889) and 483-89-95 Loras (pre-l 889) appear to be associated with this same focus area.
The former example is a frame six-bay wide two-story duplex. It has a centered through cornice dormer and the dormer front
has a set of two pointed windows. The latter example is a brick tri-plex. Its Mansard has a very unusual lower roof skirt, and
the attic front is adorned with a centered window set with a pediment cap, with twin flanking gable roof dormers.
483-89-95 Loras (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
1349 Prairie (pre-l 872) is a large two-story stuccoed frame side gable plan with a large centered gable roof front dormer. It
likely is an altered Gothic Revival Design, 636 Loras (pre-l 889) similarly is a two-story side gable plan with a large centered
front wing. It has elongated Italianate style windows on its ground floor, rounded shorter ones upstairs and oculus end attic
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lights. Its through cornice dormers have board and batten coverings. The pre-eminent example of this style is found at 1207
Grove Terrace (1854). It too has the side gable core and a through cornice ITont gable roof dormer, oculus attic end lights, and a
remarkable array of "Steamboat Gothic" eaves trim work and a wrap-around porch. The plan at 640 West Eleventh (pre-l 889)
is a cottage variant of the Gothic Revival style. It is a single-story side gable rectangular plan with a high centered gable roofed
dormer (rises even above the main roof ridge) and twin flanking gable roofed dormers. 592 Jefferson is a single story brick
duplex with a hip roof. A six-bay ITont, its entries are centered.
592 Jefferson (photo by 1. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The house at 509 Loras (pre-l 899) is the sole Romanesque style example in the district. Its squarish two-story hip roof
brick core is elaborated by the addition of a three-story comer tower and steeple and a gable roofed ITont wing. The gable ITont
bears the signature feature of the style, a triple window set with an arcade of stone voussoir arches.
509 Loras (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
District Queen Arme style examples comprise squarish two-story plans, two-story gable ITont plans, asymmetrical plans,
and elongated rectangular plans. There are five examples that have essentially cubic or squarish cores with varied offset !Tont
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and side bays. Three of these have cutaway bays, the others square-cut ones. Two gable ITont examples (1296 Prairie, 1889-
1909, and 423 Loras, pre-l 894) feature centered side bays.
423 Loras (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The house at 1105 GTOve Terrace (1887-88, NRHP) is the best and most exuberant example of the Queen Anne style.
Its two-story hip roof square core is attenuated east and west and ornamented with elaborate bays, a three-story corner tower
and turret, a wrap-around porch.
1105 Grove Terrace (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The house at 510 West Eleventh (pre-1897) is only slightly less ornate, and occupies a prominent comer lot and has a similar
three-story tower and turret. Its integrity has been marred by window replacement and re-siding. The house at 1125-33
Highland is an 1856 two-story gable brick ITont plan that was rebuilt into its present Queen Anne appearance in 1890. It now
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features a broad round comer bay set between matching three-sided bays. The house at 595 West Eleventh (1902-04) is another
two-story square core plan with a three-sided offset front bay and a wrap around porch.
1125-33 Highland (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The house at 437 Loras (1898) and 440 Loras (1897-1909) both have boldly projecting rounded offset bays on their facades.
The fonner has a two-story hip roof core and a three-story side bay, both af which have the signature hexagonal or turret front
an an elongated gable rooffonn. The 437 Loras plan is that of a narrow two-story side gable and its front tower is rounded.
437 Loras (left) and 440 Loras (right) (photo by 1. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The narrow building tetTaces available along the bluffs below Highland Place and above Grove TetTace produced a good
number of elongated Queen Anne plans. 1203 Grove Terrace (1883-86) is a combination side gable and hip roof cubic L plan.
The plan is complex as additional wings and extensions were added to step up the bluff and it is common to have the upper
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floors connect via catwalks to Highland Place behind and above the houses. 1155 Grove TeITaCe is an asymmetrical plan that
features a complex roof of jerkinhead or clipped gable ends along with donners that are recessed beneath an extended
jerkinhead roof cap. 1295 Grave Terrace is a third example. 1245 Grove Terrace (1889) was a fourth example, but it lost its
upper floor and has a new roof and now resembles a Craftsman era L-plan.
1155 Grove Terrace (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
1203 Grove Terrace (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The fmal two Queen Anne examples are fairly large scale ones. 574-76 Chestnut (1889-1909) is a mirror image brick two-story
duplex. Matching pedimented gable roofed donners are set on the outside front corners of the flat topped hip roof. The
donners cap identical upper level pavilions and fITst story cutaway bays.
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574-76 Chestnut (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There is just one Queen Anne cottage example in the dis1rict, 631 Chestnut (pre-I 889), which is a single-story L-plan with an
offset front cutaway bay.
There are seven foursquare house type examples in the district. There are three diminutive plans, 694 and 695 West
Eleventh, and 647 Chestnut, all of which date to c.1909-1O. The last named has unusual grouped comer brackets beneath the
eaves. 452 Loras (1910-21) has both the requisite front dormer but also a side wing and full-height cutaway bay. 586 Loras
(1926) is not a true foursquare, but is an L-plan with a rear rectangular core and a front offset wing, with hip roof. 1025 Grove
Terrace (1915-16) is a brick foursquare with a square-cut offset flat rooffront solarium wing. 570 West Eleventh (1915) is the
only true full sized foursquare example in the district. It has Classical Revival diamond shaped lights in its upper attic lights.
The house at 540 Wilbur (1930) a foursquare, has been enlarged beyond recognition. It is a non-contributing building.
570 West Eleventh (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are just three bungalow examples and all occur in the west end of the district. 705 Rose (1927) is a side gable
bungalow with recessed front porch and a large centered front dormer. 950 Spruce (1916) is as much a cottage as a bungalow
and has a hip roof and recessed front porch, set on a high stone foundation. 1051 Walnut (1924) is a gable front bungalow with
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ajerkinhead front pedimented gable front and a recessed front porch. 663-65 Jefferson (c. 1900) is a broad gable front frame
plan that has a splendid Craftsman style front porch.
1051 Walnut (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are two Spanish Eclectic style plans, two of which, 1105 Highland (1909+) and 555 West Eleventh (1925) are
among the best examples in the city. The Spanish Eclectic lacks the distinctive mission style parapet. The house at 1105
Highland has a symmetrical hip roof rectangular plan with end chimneys and a centered arcade entry. The house at 555 West
Eleventh (1925), is a two-story cross gabled plan with more authentic ornamental inserts (a richly ornamented entry surround
and attic oriole, balcony door with cast iron railing and brackets) and casement windows. The house at 995 Grove Terrace
(1910) is a stuccoed two-story square plan with hip roof and front window bands, but is likely more Prairie style influenced than
Spanich Eclectic.
1105 Highland (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
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555 West Eleventh (photo by J. Jacobsen, NQvember 2003).
There is just a single Tudor Revival L-plan brick cottage, 630 West Eleventh (1951) and very late in building date. It is
faithful to its style with a separate gable roofed entry, stone sUlTound, an end chimney with stone inserts and an unusual tile
roof.
There are fQur gable front ColQfiial Revival examples. The house at 619-21 JeffersQn (c_1895) is the earliest and is a
broad rectangular gable front plan with a Palladian-like attic light window set. The house at 1035 Grove Terrace (c.1905) has
the Palladian attic light, returned eaves and unusual cutaway front comers. 509 Arlington (1891-97) and 485 Arlington (c.1860)
)both pre-date 1889 and have been altered, and require further investigation to detennine their original appearances. There are
twQ examples of cubic two-story plans, 1083 Grove Terrace (1895) and 568 Loras (1896), both of which have offset front and
side bays or wings.
1083 Grove Terrace (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The house at 490 Wilbur (1939-40) is one of three side gabled rectangular elongated Colonial Revival designs. It has a center
hall plan and symmetrical fenestration. 1295 Grove Terrace (1889-1906) and 542 West 11th (1900) are the other two examples
of this type. 1080 Grove Terrace (post-Inl) is the only short side gable example and it is late in date, having been built atop
the stone foundation of a large stable. It too is central hall in plan and has half-lunette windows flanking the chimney on the
north gable end.
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1295 Grove Terrace (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are eight examples oflarge squarish Colonial Revival designs, four of which have hip roofs, three side gable in fonn and
one a two-pitched Mansard roof. The house at 422-34 Loras (1895) has twin upper level orioles, a Classical entry porch and a
large centered ftont donner (madified). 560 West Eleventh (c.1900) has a raised foundation on a prominent comer site and its
plan is elaborate with the use of a ftont gambrel roofed donner, a number of orioles and angled comer towers, lunette and
oculus windows, as well as a wrap-around porch. 542 West Eleventh is a similar side gable plan and features a most unusual
second floor bay with raised gable roofed donner above it and flanking roof extensions and donners. 1095 Grove Terrace
(1900) is quite similar in its basic fonn, with the upper level centered bay and donner, both of which align with a pedimented
and centered porch extension.
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542 West Eleventh (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The house at 561 Jefferson (1903) is an elaborate two-story hip roofed L-plan. The gable front is deeply pedimented,
denticulated and the Palladian window set has a massive exaggerated key stone. There is a Classical style wrap-around parch
with a very broad rounded mid-section. The house at 656 West Eleventh (c.1900) is very similar to 574-76 Ches1nut (1889-
1909), both being two-story hip roofed duplexes with paired outside gable roof doTITIers. The latter is deemed to be Queen
Anne in style, the foTITIer Colonial Revival given the use of massive vertical brackets an the façade. The house at 1123-35
Walnut 1896) and 1030 Grove Terrace (pre-1909) both require further investigation. The foTITIer is a two-story side gable
frame duplex plan with a through cornice centered front gable roof doTITIer. It is likely of early date and Italianate in style given
the use of a paired rounded window set in the doTITIer front. The attic lights, a split lunette light, features Craftsman style lights.
The latter is a two-story central hall plan with two-pitched hip roof, centered doTITIers, Classical Revival diamond lights in the
upper attic window sash, and a Colonial entrance surround.
561 Jefferson (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
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530-60 Loras (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003)
The apartment block at 530-60 Loras (c.1895) is a massive Colonial Revival row house design that features a Flemish
gable ftont treatment.
Vernacular Plans:
The district contains a good many vernacular examples. Vernacular designs are those which primarily represent local
non-architect designed buildings. Vernacular types include a range of generally accepted basic types (see below). Many
examples employ the same core or type form as do their academic style counterparts and the resulting designs using identical
form are distinguishable only by their stylistic components, often cosmetically applied. This is particularly true of the brick
gable ftonts and side gable plans which share cammon raised stone foundations, ftequently with water tables (mostly on the
façade only), and brick exteriors complete with stone lintels and sills. Many of these could well have been classified as
Italianate style in their original appearances, but have doubtless lost bracketed cornices and other key details. Houses having
elongated narrow lower level windows have been classed as ltalianate. Suffice it to say that there is a typological unity across
all of the brick and ftame plans when plans are classed according to their massing and roof types. ill this nomination, those
designs that have clear stylistic influences are categorized with those styles. Basic vernacular examples, lacking those
adornments, are categorized as vernacular types.
There are just two examples of the side gable cottage, 634-36 Jefferson (1890-1908) and 646-48 Jefferson (pre-1889).
Surely bath come ftom the same builder designer and they are together on the south side of Jefferson. They are brick duplex
cottage forms on stepped up stone foundations. Both are set into low terraces cut beneath the street level and each has a rear
basement level walkout sa the plans are two-stories high functionally. Entrances are paired and centered, arches are double
rowlock brick with stone sills. Each has gained a centered dormer.
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634-36 Jefferson (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are just two short two-story frame side gable plans, 614 Loras (1902) and 1347-49 Dell (1889). Both are set into
narrow lots on steeply pitched streets. The house at 614 Loras has a center hall plan while 1347-49 Dell has a raised end entry
off of a porch. Both plans are squared off by the use of rear extensions and a T-plan roof. The house at 959 Spruce is the sole
example of a single-story frame cottage. It is a side gable plan on a raised stone foundation and it too is placed on a very steeply
angled street.
1347-49 Dell (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are eight six-bay wide two-story side gable vernacular duplex plans. Five examples are of brick construction, one
is stuccoed likely over frame, and two are frame buildings. All have paired and centered separate entrances and therefore are
mirror image side hall plans. Fenestration is symmetrical in every case. Two examples (637-41 Arlington, 1880s, and 507-09
Chestnut, pre-1889) have paired center doors on the upper front, former walkout points to reach earlier porch balconies. These
have been reduced at the base or converted to windows. One example, 415-19 Loras (pre-I 889), has double door entries. The
stuccoed house at 1088-90 Walnut (pre-1889) is a very broad rectangular plan, being almost square in its footprint. Two brick
buildings have brick window arches, the design at 637-41 Arlington combines stone keystones and spring stones with brick
arches, and two have stone arches. Those on 553-561 Loras (pre-I 889) are slightly rounded, those on 415-19 Loras are
elaborate castings with engaged keystones and spring stones. Two plans border on the Italianate. 637-41 Loras retains its 2/2
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windows and it features unique bracketed stone shelf sills. The house at 609-11 Chestnut (1886), a frame example, has an
elaborate Italianate style porch a cutaway bay on the east end wall.
637-41 Arlington (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
415-19 Loras (view northwest) (Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are nine two-story side gable vernacular plans and six of these are or were originally single-family residences.
The three brick examples are both quite unusual. The house at 586-90 Arlington (pre-I 872) is an elongated and narrow plan set
atop a high stone foundation. Its fenestration is broadly spaced and it likely is better classed as a six-bay plan. The house at
1075 Walnut (pre-1889) is passibly better classed as a Queen Anne design given its unusual three-story centered wing. It is
possible that this is a transformed vernacular design. The house at 567 Arlington (pre-I 889) is positioned as a gable front but
its plan includes a side porch and entry (it is also a five-bay plan). The house at 1335-49 Dell (1889) is a frame plan and it
occupies a terraced location on a steeply angled street (like its narrower frame counterparts). It alone in this class is a duplex.
Its paired entries feature large transoms and rear wings square off the plan. The house at 1155 Walnut (pre-I 909) is a broad
frame plan. The house at 524 Arlington (pre-I 889) is likely a converted earlier duplex, remodeled in Colonial Revival garb and
converted to a single-family residence. It features very unusual black stone or cast angled brackets/modillions. The house at
1179-95 Walnut (pre-1909), is a massive rectangular plan with aT-pIan roof on its south end and a gable roof on the north. It is
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on a high raise stone foundation and possibly started out as a Modified Gothic design. The house at 641-49 West Eleventh
(c.1895), is a large and broad rectangular plan with through cornice centered gables and corner front octagonal first floor bays.
It too likely started out as a modified Gothic design. The house at 1243 Walnut is a two-story stucco (on stone) rectangular
vernacular plan with hipped roof. It pre-dates 1889. The house at 605 West Eleventh (pre-1872 started out as a two-story five-
bay wide brick side gable vernacular or Italianate style design, although it does feature unusual straight stone lintels with spring
stones. It was modified to the Queen Anne style, gaining a centered gable roof donner and a corner angled bay. Finally it
assumed institutional proportions with the addition of massive open porch and a west end solarium wing (all now built in). It
has a later date brick carriage house that appears to be much older than it is (post-1909). Despite this evolution, each design
phase is sufficiently vísible and intact so as to make the whole a contributing building.
586-90 Arlington, víew southwest (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
561 Arlington, víew northeast (end wall set to street)
(Photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are five broad gable front squarish plan vernacular duplexes, two of brick and three of frame construction. All
have grouped and centered separate entrances. Two of these, 673-75 Jefferson (pre-1889), and 573-79 Arlington (1896), have
attic lights, the first name haTIng two of them. The same property is the fanciest example of the four given its use of raised
brick arches that simulate rounded lintels, those over the attic lights being true half circles. Faux spring stones are incorporated
into the lower level window arches. The other brick example is at 1006-08 Walnut (post-1889) and is a deep broad rectangle in
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plan. The !Tame examples are 685-87 Jefferson (pre-1889) and 583-93 Arlington (1886). The latter has been considerably
altered with a roof-top addition, residing and window and porch changes.
673-75 Jefferson, view north (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are nine three-bay wide gable !Tant vernacular house examples and only three of these are of brick construction
(715 Rose, c.1890, hip roofed, 649 Arlington, pre-l 872, and 945 Spruce, pre-1889). Of these only the second named is a right
hand en1ry side hall plan, the others having left side entries. This subtype with its narrow footprint lends itselfto infill housing
on uneven lots and half of the examples were built in combination with a high raised stone foundation and walkout basement
Of six frame examples, four have right hand side !Tont entrances. Five of the examples have !Tont attic lights. The brick
examples all lack stone lintels. The house at 555 Arlington (pe-1889) originally had a double door en1ry with transom or a
single door with sidelights and transom. The stuccoed example at 472 Loras (pre-l 872) features cast iron straight lintels with
an upper cap. The house at 1283 Walnut (pre-1909) closely approaches the ltalianate style with its rounded wooden lintels and
a cutaway south side bay. The house at 645 Jefferson (pre-1889) has returned eaves. The other !Tame example is 475 Loras
(1886).
945 Spruce, view west (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
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1283 Walnut, view northwest (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
There are II assorted gable front frame vernacular smaller house/cottage examples, just one of which is well preserved.
The house at 1143 Walnut (pre-I 909), is a pyramid roof cottage with a front dormer. There are four two-story gable front
examples. The house at 561 Wilbur (pre-1889), is a tall narrow plan with steep roof, it likely had ltalianate style windows when
built. The house at 604 Loras (pre-1909), is a slightly broader rectangular plan. Gothic style undulating bargeboards on the
gable front hint at an earlier glory. It has a side entrance. The house at 570 Wilbur (pre-1872), consists of two attached side
gable sections, one of brick, the other of frame construction, with an east end entrance, the plan being set parallel to the road. It
is of interest given its age but it has been quite changed. It is deemed to be contributing due to the well preserved state of the
brick west portion. The house at 1105 Walnut (post-1909) resembles 561 Wilbur with a tall profile, and grouped upper front
windows. Its two-story solarium wing is likely an addition. The house at 1289 Walnut (1890), and 493 Arlington (1891-96) are
the only story-and-a-half gable front cottage plans. The latter has gained a side wing. Both examples have a single upper level
front window. The house at 1267 Walnut (pre-1909), is a true single-story cottage with a right hand front entry and side hall
plan. The house at 503 Arlington (1891-98) is a broader cottage example with a right side front entry. The house at 595
Jefferson (pre-1889), has Gothic pedimented attic lights but it has gained a story. Its raised front basement windows are 2/2
ltalianate lights. The house at 588 Jefferson (post-1909), but moved in, has returned eaves and fronts backwards relative to a
stone retaining wall that rises above and in front of it. It is non-contributing given its having been recently moved in.
There are four story-and-a-halfL or T- frame vernacular plans. The house at 530 Wilbur, pre-1909, is a T-plan. The
house at 609-17 Arlington (1883) is an elongated T-plan with narrow Italianate style 2/2 windows. The house at 643 Chestnut
(pre-1909), is a shorter T -plan with a steeply pitched roof. The house at 1206 Prairie is aT-pIan (pre-I 872). It presently
features Gothic Revival style attached window hoods and bargeboard but these are recent changes.
There are four two-story L-plan frame vernacular examples. All of these are later-date houses, pre-dating 1909. Three
examples, 1293 Walnut, 520 Wilbur and 603 Arlington have corner entrances where the front and side wings unite. The house
at 515 Arlington has twin entrances, one in a porch infilled area and one on the right hand side of the front wing. The house at
1030 Walnut (1889-1909) is probably an altered three-bay wide gable front with left hand side front entry, that gained a side
wing.
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515 Arlington, view northeast (photo by J. Jacobsen, November 2003).
The house at 642-46 West Eleventh (1870 or 1895), is a story-and-a-half1Ÿame L-plan example. Its wing features a
through-cornice dormer and the 1Ÿont wing has a right-hand entry and side hall plan. The house at 533-37 Chestnut (pre-1873),
is an altered single-story L-plan frame example. There are two single-story L-plans. 642 Arlington, pre-1909, is a 1Ÿame
example. The house at 610 Wilbur (pre-1889), is a stuccoed stone example, its rectangular plan being set parallel to Wilbur
S1reet.
There is a single commercial store1Ÿont property in the district, located at 514 Loras (1900-08). It is a two-story brick
single store1Ÿont set on a raised corner setting, the ground rising steeply to the back (south) of the plan. There is a left-hand side
upstairs 1Ÿont en1rance. The store1Ÿont with prism glass 1ransom is well preserved. The parapet 1Ÿont consists of a starkly
corbelled base and high plain brick 1Ÿont.
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There are two house examples in the dis1rict that defy ready classification due to later alterations. The house at 571
Wilbur (pre-1909), is a remodeled large garage, now a residence. The basic fonn of the garage remains visible and the
alterations were minimal enough to classify the building as a con1ributing one. The ITame duplex at 1148-54 Prairie (1890s-
1908) is a crucifonn plan with a hip roof core and matching side gable wings. While it defies architectural classification, it is
deemed to be a con1ributing building.
Outbuildings:
Typical of Dubuque's older neighborhoods, there is a low survival rate of early garages or outbuildings. Most of the
carriage houses ta be found in the dis1rict, principally along Highland or Dell s1reets, are recently built designs. Of two brick
carriage houses (1209 Prairie and 632 Chestnut), both have been substantially altered over time. There is one rusticated
concrete block garage example with pyramid roof that is well preserved at 695 West 11th S1reet. Garages of weatherboard or
stucco cladding, which are in excess of 50 years of age and which are of sympathetic design to their associated houses, are
deemed to be con1ributing buildings to the dis1rict. Garages 'and outbuildings are deemed to be con1ributing buildings if they
share architectural characteristics with their residential counterparts. Outbuildings that pre-date 1955 and which retain their
original claddings and design are rated to be con1ributing. Deteriorated and abandoned buildings are rated as non-con1ributing.
Other Features:
The other distinctive structure category in the dis1rict is the stone retaining wall. Typical of Dubuque 1radition, these
are substantially built of yellow bluff limestone, the principal blacks measuring up to five feet in length and several feet in
height. The most impressive walls are found on the northwest comer of Alice and Wilbur in association with 970 Olive. These
walls measure at least 25 feet in height and extend for a full block ITom that comer along each of these s1reets. More extensive
and visually prominent is the series of stone retaining walls that are located at the site of the West 11 th S1reet Elevator. A
massive stone vaulted tunnel marks the point where the elevator passed through the wall. Today a recessed shaft located at the
center of Grove Terrace and on the West 11 th S1reet right-of-way, marks the point where the Elevator continued up and out of
that tunnel and above grade up ta HigWand Place to the west. The West 11 th S1reet Stairs, of concrete construction, now
parallel the fonner course of the Elevator. They extend ITom Bluff S1reet to the east, up the bluff ITont, through the tunnel and
along the south side of the retaining wall that defines the bluff that ITonts east behind the houses along Grove Terrace. Less
prominent is the massive stone retaining wall that defines the east side of Alice S1reet and which defines the sunken back yards
that result along the west side of the south half of Grove Terrace. Lesser retaining walls are common to Grove Terrace, the
south side of Chestnut, 1209 Prairie, and at several points along Highland Place, West 11th, and Loras Blvd. The West 11th
S1reet Wall and Steps are counted as individual con1ributing structures. Two recently established parks are counted as non-
con1ributing sites. Other retaining walls are not separately enumerated.
Property List:
Key: Can1ributing resources are identified by a "(C)" while non-con1ributing resources are marked "(NC)." Substantial
outbuildings (carriage houses) or landscape features are separately listed under their respective addresses, while lesser
outbuildings are listed in the right hand colunm. The Evaluation colunm notes if a resource is other than a building.
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Alice StyleNear: 1959, two-story cubic frame Special Significance; None NC Twin basement
1055-57 duplex with tuck-under garage garages
Alice 1075- StyleNear: 1959, two-story cubic frame Special Significance; None NC Twin basement
1077 duplex with tuck-under gara~e ~araQfS
Arlington StyleNear: 1875, ltalianate style gable Special Significance; Joshua E. and C New attached
480 front brick side hall design Caroline D. Fairbanks. Failcbanks built a double garage
two story brick dwelling and bam for south end of lot
$6,000 (Herald, October 31, 1875) (NO
Arlington StyleNear: 1860, pre-1887, two story Special Significance; George G. Moser, C Attached one-
485 frame pIau, Classical Revival style 3 I Arlington, grocer, built a frame story stuccoed
addition for $1,100 in 1886 (Herald, garage
Januarv I, 1887)
Arlington Style1Year: c.1891-96, vernac1.Ùar gable Special Significance; WilliamH. and C None
493 front !.5-storv frame cotta~e Ellamina L. Geetin~
Arlington StyleNear: 1891-1898, I.5-story frame Special Significance; James and Annie C None
503 gable front vernac1.Ùar cottage M. Russell resided here as of 1899, the
first address listing
Arlington StyleNear: 1891-98, Neo Classical style, Special Significance: Rev. George F. and C None
509 two-story frame gable front duplex Ernaline S. Perlàns were the listed
residents at this address as of 1899
Arlington StyleN ear: pre-1896, two-story frame Special Significance; James H. Perlàns C None
515 vernac1.Ùar L-pIan house lived at 55 Arlington in 1896
Arlington StyleNear: pre-1889, ltalianate style Special Significance; Robert and Lisetta C small gable
524 Hay lived here 1896-99 roof shed west
of house INC)
Arlington Low limestone retaining wall, runs along C N/A
524 front (north side) of house Structure
Arlington StyleN ear: pre- I 889, early vernacular Special Significance; Mrs. Catherine D. NC gambrel roof
555 frame two-story gable front side hall S1.Ùlivau, widow of Daniel Sullivan, shed (Ne)
house plan IITocer, lived at 91-93 Arlington 1896-99
Arlington StyleN ear: pre- I 889, two-story brick Special Significance; WilbUI E. and C There is a fOUI-
567 side gable vernac1.Ùar house, oriented Vilcginia W. Robinson lived here 1896-99 car concrete
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Arlington StyleNear: pre-1909/1896, broad Special Significance; Mrs. E. Hitchins C None
573-579 vernacular frame two-story gable front (119) andR. O. Campbell (121) lived
duplex plan here as of 1899
Arlington StyleNear: c.1896, two-story gable front Special Significance; M. Clem and Millie NC None
583-593 sqnare vernac1.Ùar frame dun1ex nlan Mathews lived here 1896-99
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Address Architectural Summarv Historical Suuuuarv Evaluation Outbuildinvs
Arlington StyiefYear: pre-1872, very unusual two- Special Significance; original owner not C None
586-590 story side gable vernacular brick duplex detennined
on fullv exDosed stone foundation
Arlington, Concrete walls, shed roof, recent date N/A three-car
ODDosite 586 £ara£e (NO
Arlington StylefYear: 1898-99, two-story frame Special Significance; John P. and Hannah NC None
603 vernacular T -Dlan Coonev lived at 131 Arlington in 1899
Arlington StylefY ear: c. I 879-80, I.5-story frame Special Significance; original owner not C None
609-617 ltalianate/vernacular L-Dlan detennined.
ArlingtoD StylefY ear: c. I 879-80, vernacular two- Special Significance; original owner not C None
623-627 storv side gable frame dunlex detennined.
Arlington StylefYear: 1880s, pre-1889, Special Significance; Bernard Joseph C None
637-641 exceptionally well preserved two-story O'Neill, 179 Arlington, built a $1,000
vernacular/ ltalianate style brick side addition to his half duplex in 1881
£able duDlex (Herald, December 4,1881)
Arlington StylefYear: c.1889, 1866, single-story Special Significance; original owner not NC New shed (NC)
642 vernacular frame L-Dlan with west wing determined.
Arlington StylefYear: pre-1872, an unusual Special Significance; original owner not C double square
649 combination of two houses, one fronting detennined hip roof
south, the other with separate porch, garage, clap-
fronting west. This is a two-story gable board exterior,
front brick side hall vernacular Dlan built 1925 (C)
Chestnut Style/Year: pre-1889, two-story brick Special Siguificance; original owner not C None
507-509 vernacular side £able dunlex detennined
Chestnut StylefYear: pre-1872/1906 remodel, Special Significance; original owner not C attached garage
508-510 broad two-story brick vernacular duplex. detennined
ltalianate bracketed canopy with three
brackets with Dendants (unusua])
Chestnut Style/Year: pre-1873/1844, single-story Special Siguificance; original owner not C None
533-537? vernacular frame L-Dlan cottage detennined
Chestnut Style/Year: pre-1872/1906, two-story Special Significance; original owner not C None
552 ltalianate brick gable front aide hall plan determined
Chestnut Style/Y ear: pre- I 889/1886, two-story Special Significance; J. G. Peterson, a C four-car shed
559-561 stepped end gable brick Adams/Federal con1ractor, built a double two-story brick roof concrete
style duplex tenement, 38x20 with wing 14x12, for garage (NC)
$3,200 on Chestnut, between High and
Prairie, in 1870. The naxrow length given
best fits this duplex (Herald, December
18,1870)
Chestnut StylefYear: post-1889, pre-1909, two- Special Significance; original owner not C None
574-576 story brick hip roof, Queen Anne style detennined
duplex (bays, pedimented gable roof
dormers), Neo Classical style porch
(c.1910)
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Chesmut StylelY ear: 1878, two-story brick Special Significance; original owner not C Attached
604 Italianate stvle side hall residence deternrined ~ara~e
Chesmut StylelYear: pre-18891I886, two-story Special Significance; original owner not NC gambrel roof
609-611 trame vernacular side gable duplex plan. deternrined aluminum
Integrity is compromised by a post-1986 sided shed
double trout uortico (NC1
Chesmut StylelYear: pre-1889? single-story T-plan Special Significance; original owner not C None
631 frame Queeu Anne stvIe cotta~e deternrined
Chesmut StylelYear: pre-18721I870, two-story Special Significance; original owner not C See below
632 brick Italianate style gable tront side ball deternrined
residence plan Wallis owned the parcel when it was
sewered in 1891. Ann Wallis owned it in
'1873 when it was sub-divided
Chesmut Stone retaining wall, gate, stone and brick C(2) N/A
632 driveway gate posts (west end of Structure
DroDerW1
Chestnut single-story brick carriage house, 28x22 C N/A
632
Chesmut StylelYear: pre-1889, two-story gable Special Significance; original owner not NC new garage on
642 tront Italianate style fume residence deternrined concrete foun-
dation, (NC)
Chesmut StylelYear: pre-1909, I.5-story Special Significance; original owner not C None
643 vernacular trame T -Dlan determined
Chesmut StylelYear: 1925, Craftsman style Special Significance; Ris and Anna C None
647 foursquare type with unusual corner Reinhart were the first listed residents at
bracket sets this address in 1927
Chesmut StylelYear: pre-1889, two-story gable Special Significance; original owner not C two frame
648 tront ltaIianate style trame residence deternrined garages, metal
sided, flat roofs
(NC)
Chesmut StylelYear: pre-1889, two-story side Special Significance; M. M. Walker's C one-story gable
655 gable trame Italianate style duplex new dwelling on the corner of Prairie and tront trame
Chesmut was "rapidly approaching garage (C)
completion" (Herald, September 27,
1877)
Chesmut StylelYear: 1870/1890+/-, Italianate style Special Significance; original owner not C 1.5 story trame
658 two-story brick gable tront side hall plan determined carriage house
residence type. (C1
Dell StylelY ear: pre- I 909, a diminutive two- Special Significance; original owner not C None
1335-1349 story side gable trame vernacular duplex deternrined
Dlan with Italianate stvle lower windows
Dell StylelYear: pre-1890, pre-1909, two-story Special Significance; Thos. McLaughlin C None
1360 side gable fume vernacular plan with lived at roo Dell in 1890-1896
side entrance, south end doube-decker
porch
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Dei! and Avon Park, limestone walls, playground NC(2) N/A
Avon equipment Site/
Structure
Grove StylelY ear: 1860s, single-story remnant Special Signilicance; Charles and Mary C None
Termce of two-story Second Empire style with [Armstrong] Wilbur House. He was an
970-72 Mansard roof early Dubuque architect and is the
namesake for Wilbur Street which begins
west from this house
Grove High limestone wall runs from its south C N/A
Terrace end north to 1030 Grove Terrace, runs Structure
between a fonner access road located east
of Grove Terrace
Grove StylelYear: 1910, Queen Anne style (hip 'Special Significance; Henry and Augusta C None
Terrace roof, asymmetry, shingled gable fronts), Wodrich House
975 Neo Classical s!vle front Dorch (c_191O)
Grove High limestone wall runs across the back C N/A
Terrace of the lots (from 975-1035 Grove Structure
Terrace) and snpports Alice Street which
is elevated behind the back vards
Grove Low limestone retaining wall extends C N/A
Terrace along the fronts of975 to 1035 Grove Structure
Terrace
Grove StylelYear: pre-1886, post-1955 Second Special Signilicance; original owner not C attached garage
Terrace Empire determined
982 .
Grove StyIelYear: pre-1889, Queen Anne style, Special Signilicance; original owner not C None
Terrace Shingle style determined
990
Grove StylelYear: 1910/I912, Craftsman style Special Signilicance; original owner not C None
Terrace and Colonial Revival style determined
995
Grove Sty1elYear: 1915, brick foursquare type Special Signilicance; Richard Kolek C None
Terrace house built this $4,000 residence in 1915
1025 (Te/ærauh-Hera/d, December 26, 1915)
Grove StylelYear: pre-1909, Colonial RevivaL Special Significance; original owner not C None
Terrace determined
1030
Grove Style/Year: c.1908, Neo-Classical style, Special Significance; original owner not C None
Terrace Craftsman style determined
1035
Grove Style/Year: 1905, two-story frame square Special Significance; original owner not C None
Terrace plan Qneen Anne style determined
1045
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Grove StylelYear: 1927, Colonial Revival style, Special Significance; Carl and Mary K C two-car ftame
Terrace two-story side gable ftame plan with Lindenburg original owners bip roof garage
1080 center hall plan and entry with narrow
siding (C)
Grove StylelYear: c.1898, Two-story ftame Special Significance; original owner not C None
Terrace cubic plan Neo Classical style, nearly detennined
1083 identical plan to 1045 Grove Terrace
innnediately south
Grove StylelY ear: c. I 864, single-story cottage, Special Significance; Henry and Matilda C. None
Terrace gable ftont, south wing), pre-I900, Playter original owners
1090 vernacular two-story frame gable ftont
plan
Grove StylelYear: 1901-02, Neo Classical style 'Special Significance; Herbert H. and C None
Terrace and Modified Gothic style Frances Hopkins lived here 1903 (first
1095 directorv listing of house)
II W Street These concrete stairs with metal railing That portion of the stairs located east of C
Stairs pass furough a stone arch in the I I'" the West II'" Street Wall is listed on the Structure
Street waIl, passing under a portion of National Register of Historic Places as
Grove Terrace and West I I'" Street, part of the Jackson Park Historic District
following the right of way of the former
I I'" Street elevator.
II'" Street High and prominent limestone walls form C(2) N/A
Wall a large portion of the east elevated Structure
portion of the district, wall with an arched
opening that formerly allowed the 11 '"
Street Elevator to pass furough the wall.
A second wall runs along the east and
south sides of Highland Place, at the
former upper level once occupied by the
elevator's station
Grove StylelYear: 1887-88, Queen Anne style, Special Significance; Charles T. Hancock C Under-ground
Terrace one of the best and best preserved house, individually listed, National terrace double
II05 residential examples of this type in the Register of Historic Places- garage (C)
city, prominently placed. Designed by
noted local arcbitect Franklin D. Hvde
Grove Low limestone wall runs along the west C N/A
Terrace side of the street between West I I'" and Structure
Arlington streets
Grove High and massive limestone wall supports C N/A
Terrace the east side of HighIand Place, along the Structure
rear lots on the west side of Grove
Terrace, between West II'" and Arlington
streets
Grove StylelYear: pre-1889/188I, Queen Anne Special Significance; Marshall M. and C Gazebo (NC)
Terrace style, designed by noted local arcbitect Lucretia WaIker original owners
II55 Franklin D. Hyde
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Grove Style/Year: 1883-86, Queen Anne style. Special Significance; William Harrison C new garage
Terrace This is yet another excellent and very Day residence (1886), Day was president (NC)
1203 well preserved example of an elongated of the leading Standard Lumber Company
QA design, designed by noted local
architect Frank D. Hvde, architect
Grove Style/Year: 1854, Gothic Revival, Special Significance; Benton M. Harger C None, stone
Terrace designed by the notable and early residence retaining wall
1207 Dubuque architect, JohnF. Rague and crate (C)
Grove Style/Y ear: 1890, three-story modified Special Significance; Louis G. Hurd NC None
Terrace Queen Anne, now a Victorianized side house. Hurd was a prominent lawyer
1245 gable bungalow with gabled ell on right (1845-1927) and practiced law for over
front 50 years
Grove Style/Year: 1889, Queen Anne style 'Special Significance; James A. Conchar C attached garage
Terrace House, local hardware merchant and
1295 owner of a metal Dlating firm
HigWand Style/Year: 1919-20, Spanish Eclectic Special Significance; Dr. John T. C new double
Place style Hancock side gable
II 05 garage (NC)
HigWand Limestone wall with cast iIon fence runs C N/A
Place along east and south fronts, driveway gate Structure
II 05 in southwest corner.
HigWand Style/Year: 1856, 1890, ltalianate style Special Significance; John Hancock was C new two-story
Place Place two-story side gable duplex, half of which the fITSt owner and builder of the original carriage house
II33-II35 was modified into Queen Anne style north portion. George Burden added the (NC)
c.1890 tower, stained glass and bavs in 1890
HigWand Low limestone waIL extends from II05 to C N/A
Place 1163 HigWand Place, the wall runs along Structure
the north side of I 163 HigWand Place
HigWand Style/Year: c.1865, Italianate broad two- Special Significance; original owner not C new carriage
Place story gable front brick residence with side detennined house (NC)
II 63 haIlDlan
HigWand Style/Y ear: pre- I 889/1886, ltalianate Special Significance; original owner not C two-story frame
Place style, Neo Classical style detennined carriage house
II70 (C)
HigWand Style/Year: c.1860, modified Italianate Special Significance; original owner not C None
Place style duplex (cupola, massing). Neo detennined
II75-II93 Classical stvle front
Highland Low limestone wall extends from 1193 to C N/A
Place 1295 HigWand Place Structure
Highland Style/Year: c. 1856/1865, Italianate style Special Significance; original owner not C two-story side
Place two-story brick side gable plan modified detennined gable brick
1209 to Neo Classical c.1910 garacre (NC)
Highland Style/Year: 1860-70 (pre-1872), two- Special Significance; original owner not C New double
Place story brick Italianate style gable front side detennined gable front
1245 hall desitm garage INC)
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Highland Style/Y ear: pre- I 872, two-story brick Special Significance; original owner not C None.
Place gable front Italianate side hall plan. detennined
1295
Jefferson Style/Y ear: c. I 920 pyramid roof cottage Special Significance; original owner not C None.
560 detennined
Jefferson Style/Year: 1901-2, Queen Anne style, Special Significance; Anthony F. Heeb, C None
561 with Neo-Classical influence designed by secretary treasurer Dubuque Brewing &
local architect: Fridolin Heer Sr Malting Co.
Jefferson Limestone wall extends around east and C N/A
561 south sides of 561 Jefferson and extends Structure
across the fronts of 571-583 Jefferson
Jefferson Style/Y ear: c. 1883-84, ltalianate two- Special Significance; L. Alphonse C attached first
571 storY brick side hall plan 'Rhombef!!, original owner floor garages
Jefferson Style/Year: pre-1872, AdarnslFederal Special Significance; original owner not C None
583 stermed end gable duplex pIan identified
Jefferson Style/Year: 1951, I.5-story gable front Special Significance; First ctirectory C metal shed
588 frame vernacular brick cottage listing 1952, James C. Tomokins (NC\
Jefferson Style/Year: post-1889, pre-I 899, two- Special Significance; original owner not C Front gable
592-594 story square brick ltalianate style identified IDasonite
covered garage,
1971 (NÒ
Jefferson High limestone wall supports south side C
592-594 of the street to the west of this house Structure
Jefferson Style/Y ear: pre- 1889, originally a single Special Significance; original owner not NC Single-story
595 story vernacular gable front cottage on identified gable front
raised stone foundation, altered double garage,
weather-board,
1929 (C\
Jefferson Style/Year: c.191 1-12, Neo Classical Special Significance; original owner not C None
619-621 stvle identified
Jefferson Style/Year: c.1899, single-story brick Special Significance; original owner not C None
634-636 side gable vernacular duplex identified
Jefferson Style/Year: 1870-1889, twocstory frame Special Significance; original owner not NC Metal shed
635-37-39 side gable vernacular duplex identified (NC\
Jefferson Style/Y ear: c. I 886- 1889, two-story frame Special Significance; original owner not C Shed (NC)
645 gable front vernacular side hall plan identified
Jefferson Style/Y ear: pre- 1889, single-story brick Special Significance; original owner not C None
646-648 side gable vernacular duplex identified
Jefferson Style/Year: pre-1889/1886, Italianate Special Significance; original owner not C None
655-657 stvle two-storY side gable duplex identified
Jefferson Style/Year: c.1898, pre-1900, Craftsman Special Significance; original owner not C None
663-665 stvle two-storY gable ITont frame du111ex identified
Jefferson Style/Year: pre-1889, two-story brick Special Significance; original owner not C Concrete block
673-675 broad square plan vernacular gable ITont identified shed (NC)
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Jefferson Style/Year: pre-l 889, broad gable front Special Significance; original owner not C None
685-687 two-story frame vernacular duulex identified
Loras Style/Year: pre-1872? post-1889, pre- Special Significance; R. W. and W. G. C None.
407-409 1909, two-story brick Italianate style Stewart might be builders for 409
gable front duulex
Loras Style/Y ear: pre- I 889, two-story brick Special Significance; First listing 412/8 is C three-car,
412 ltalianate style gable frout duplex 1886 with Patrick J. McCullough, dealer garage (1960)
in arncultural imnlemeuts NC
Loras Style/Year: pre-1889, two-story side Special Significance; original owner not C None
414-416 gable brick ltalianate stvle duulex identified
Loras Style/Year: pre-1889, two-story side Special Significance; James C. Paine C None.
415-419 gable brick vernacular dunlex nlan House
Loras Style/Year: 1895/I896, Queen Anne style -Special Significance; original owner not C Noue
422-434 with Neo Classical stvIe influence identified
Loras Style/Year:c.1889, two-story frame gable Special Significance; John and Hemy C None
423 front Oueen Anne stvle Wvbrant
Loras Style/Y ear: 1898, twocstory frame side Special Significance; Byron L. Platt, C None
437 gable rectangnlar plan Queen Anne style traveling salesman for James Forrester
design Co.
Loras Style/Year: post-1894, pre-1909, Queen Special Significance; original owner not C New gam-brel
440 Anne style two-storv frame house design identified roof shed (NC)
Loras Style/Year: pre-1872? Italianate style Special Significance; James and Mary C None
445 two-story brick hip roof side hall Lally House
residence ulan
Loras Style/Year: c. 1916-17, foursquare type Special Significance; original owner not C None
452 with side bay identified
Loras Style/Year: 1847 (west part), 1870 (east Special Significance; Frederick A. C None
459 part), two-story brick gable front side hall Gniffke (1833-1915), founder and editor
Italiauate style design of the Natioual Demokrat local German
newspaper as of 1874 (published until
1933). Gniflke served in the state
legislature, and served on the board of
education
Loras Style/Year: 1876, two-story brick side Special Significance: original owner not C None
460 gable Italianate style residence identified.
First directory listing is 1884, Mrs.
Elizabeth D. Carter, widow of William, at
52 West l4th- She rernains through 1890
Loras Limestone rubble wall. C N/A
460 Structure
Loras Style/Year: 1876, two-story brick side Special Significance; excellent porch and C None
464 gable Italianate residence original rounded upper window sasb.
Original owner not identified
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Loras StylelYear: 1886, Italianate style two- Special Significance; original owner not C None
465-469 story brick side e:able duulex identified
Loras Raised limestone wall along east side C N/A
465-69 Structure
Loras StylelYear: pre-1872/1886, broader gable Special Significance; original owner not C Garage in ITont
472 ITont two-story brick vernacular side baIL identified terrace, (NC)-
residence plan
Loras Limestone wall incorporates underground C N/A
472 e:arae:e and forms base ofhie:h terrace Structure
Loras StylelYear: c.1882-83, Vernacular fuune Special Significance; Mrs. Eleanor C garage (C)
475 two-story gable ITont side hall residence Mellen, possiblv also Milo M. Mellen
Loras Low concrete retaining wall extends NC N/A
475 across ITont of 483-95 Loras Structure
Loras StylelYear: c.1894-95, post-1889, Gothic Special Significance; original owner not C None
483-489-495 Revival two-story brick parapet ITont tri- identified
plex
Loras Style/Year: 1896-97, Romanesque style, Special Significance: Michael S. Hardie C new gable roof
509 Shingle style two-stOry brick sonare ulan house garae:e (NC)
5ID Loras Buda Park, replaces several houses, NC high new stone
western most was a broad gable front 1.5- Site retaining wall
story frame duplex with shingled exterior, with ramp
extant 1986, gazebo and playground
equipment
Loras StylelYear: 1897-98, two-story brick Special Significance; The first directory C None.
514-16 parapet front storeITont listing is 1899, with Arthur W. Latta's
grocery and William and Agnes Krrittie
Loras StylelYear: 1872-73, two-story frame Special Significance; original owner not C weather-board
517 rectangular plan ltalianate style identified covered garage
(C)
Loras Low limestone wall extends from 517 to C N/A
531 Loras Structure
Loras StylelYear: c.1875-76, two-story two- Special Significance; William A. Palmer C concrete block
525 story frame rectangular plan brick side house gar-age, 1963
gable ltalianate stvle residence (NC)
Loras StylelYear: c. 1895, Queen Anne town Special Significance; This is a rather C None
530-560 house design five-plex remarkable design particularly in
Dubuque, it has no counterparts and the
designer successfully distingnished the
successive ITontages by alternating
e:ables, dormers and window treatments
Loras Finished limestone wall extends up Dell C N/A
530-560 alone: east side ofbuildino Structure
Loras StylelY ear: 1886, two-story brick Special Significance; original owner not C new double
533-541 Italianate style side gable row house. identified concrete block
Matches 575-83 Loras garae:e (NC)
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Loras StyleNear: pre-1889, two-story side Special Significance; original owner not C None
553-561 gable brick vernacular type duplex identified
Loras Low limestone wall extends from 553 to C N/A
575-83 Loras Structure
Loras StyleNear: 1977, two-story hip roof plan Special Significance; none NC None
567 with tuck-under front double crarage
Loras StyleNear: 1896, Queeu Anne style with Special Significance; Nicholas Groff C None
568 Classical Revival influence, two-story residence
cubic frame plan with hip roof
Loras StyleNear: c.1897-98, two-story frame Special Significance; original owner not C None
574 side gable vernacular plan identified
Loras StyleNear: 1886, two-story brick Special Significance; original owner not C single-story
575-583 ltaIianate style side gable row house, identified gable front
matches 533-41 Loras masonite
I garage mC)
Loras StyleN ear: pre-1909, two-story frame Special Significance; original owner not C None
580/82 rectangular-plan residence, likely identified
Italianate stvle original1v
Loras Sty1e/Year: 1923-24,1926, modified Special Significance; Arthur and Nathalie C None
586 foursquare type frame residence Wilberding house
Loras Style/Year: 1896, Italianate style two- Special Significance; original owner not C Noue
590-598 storY parapet front brick duplex identified
Loras StyleNear: 1884-85, Italianate style Special Significance; Hugh Corrance C New hip ro.of
597 (re- cubic frame plan with belvedere house, president .of the Dubuque Building garage (NC).
addressed as and L.oan Association (1899) and this
1401 Henion house is associated with the work of that
12-14-94), important housing promoter
Loras StyleNear: c.1897-98, two-story frame Special Significance; original owner not C None.
604 gable front vernacular type residence identified
Loras Style/Year: 1898, two-story frame side Special Significance; original owner not C None.
614 gable vernacular house plan identified
Loras StyleNear: 1897-98, elongated two-story Special Significance; original owner not C double tile
620-628 brick vernacular type duplex plan identified garage with hip
roof(C)
Loras Style/Year: 1884-85, Gothic Revival, Special Significance; Moses H. Martin C None
636 Neo Classical tower addition in northeast house, president of the Martin-Strelau
corner Co.
Olive StyleNear: c.1872-75, c.1910, ltalianate Special Siguificance; James and Anna C Gable front
970 style substantially modified c.1910 to Forrester House frame two car
Neo-classical style garage, 1974
(NC)
Olive Massive two-block limestone wall set into C N/A
970 bedrock, defines south and east sides of Structure
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Olive Low limestoue wall with metal fence, of NC N/A
970 recent date Structure
Olive StyleN ear: 1960, recent dnplex Special Significance; none NC None
1048-1050
Olive StyleNear: 1962, recent duplex Special Significance; none NC None
1078-80
Prairie StyleNear: c.1895, Queen Anne style Special Significance; James M. and C None
1136 Bessie Walsh House
Prairie StyleN ear: c. I 894-95, no style, two-story Special Significance; First directory C None
1148-1154 fÌame cruciform house plan listings found place Harry Brown at
1154/36 in 1896. August Rasmussen was
at II48/34 1899-1921+
Prairie StyleNear: pre-1872?/1888-89, Modified 'Special Significance; Frank and Ennna C fÌame shed
1206 Gothic style. A c.1930s photo shows that Zehnter Cottage, Frank Zehnter was the (NC), gable
this was a Modified Gothic design with proprietor of the Key City Iron Works fÌont two-car
perforated bargeboards and board and garage on east
batten siding. The present bargeboards end oflot (NC)
are replacements with larger cutouts
although the same geometric forms have
been used
Prairie StyleNear: pre-1872, brick ltalianate Special Significance; Phineas W. C 1.5 story brick
1209 Villa style, modified c.1910 to Neo Crawford house carriage house,
Classical style (C) addressed
as 1240 Walnut
Prairie Low limestone wall extends for two- C N/A
1209 blocks along east and north sides of Structure
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Prairie StyleNear: pre-1863, Italianate style Special Significance; Susan Lawrence C Double gable
1295 brick gable fÌont house. Ora A. Holland had title to the property fÌom 1856 fÌont fÌame
might be the architect onwards and likely built the house carriage house,
new (NC)
Prairie StyleNear: 1897-98, Queen Anne style Special Significance; Charles A. and C None
1296 fÌame gable fÌont house Louise Lantzsky house
Prairie StyleNear: pre-1872, likely originally Special Significance; original owner not C None
1349 Gothic Revival style but substantially determined
modified c.1910 in apartment conversion
Rose StyleNear: 1919-20, side gable bungalow Special Significance; original owner not C None.
705 determined
Rose StyleNear: c.1890, two- story hip roof Special Significance; original owner not C None
715 vernacular plan determined
Spruce StyleNear: pre-1889, two-story gable Special Significance; original owner not C None
945 fÌont brick vernacular side hall plan determined
Spruce Sty1eN ear: 19 I 6, gable fÌont fÌame Special Significance; The first directory C metal shed
950 StyleN ear: bungalow listing places John Williams at 26 Spruce (NC)
in 1918
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Spruce StyleN ear: pre-1872, single-story frame Special Significance; The first directory C None
959 side gable vernacular cottage on raised listing places Daniel P - Mullen here in
stone foundation 1899 at 27 Spruce
1059 Spruce Style/Year: pre-I 896, Italianate style Special Significance; First directory C None
gable front cottage on high stone exposed listing is for Lincoln Weber, carpenter
basement level. withD. W- Rand, 1896
1073 Spruce StyleNear: c.1909-10, Queen Anne Special Significance; First directory C Noue
frame hip roof cottage with gable roof listing places Meinhart B. and Anna E.
front side wing, bay Kreis, painter for W- E. Fox, at 73 Spruce
in 19II
Walnut StyleNear: c.1890-1899, two-story gable Special Significance; Directories first C garage attached
1006-1008 front vernacular brick duplex place Jacob Kuhn at 1006/30, and P- S- under rear deck
'and Peter BaIlau~h at 1008/32 in 1899
Walnut StyleNear: c.1881-82, Second Empire Special Significance; unusual example of C Two-story
1025 style small brick house this style, FranklFrancis and Catherine gable front
Jaeger House frame barn,
board and bat-
ten exterior (C\
Walnut Low limestone fence with high terrace C N/A
1025 Structure
Walnut StyleN ear: c_1884-85, vernacular frame Special Significance; porch is rare C None
1026-30 two-story gable front duplex survivor and example, original owner not
determined
Walnut StyleNear: 1924, gable front frame Special Significance; Mrs. Susan C None
1051 bungalow, Craftsman style Weimerskirch bungalow
Walnut Low limestone fence with high terrace C N/A
1051 Structure
Walnut StylelYear: 1884-85, two-story brick side Special Significance; Nicholaus and C Iœtal gambrel
1075 gable vernacular residence plan with Margaret Kaufimm, Kaufman was a shed (NC)
unusual centered two-story porch! dormer carpenter-contractor
unit
Walnut StyleNear: pre-1889, two-story frame L- Special Significance; original owner not C fraIœ front
1088-1090 plan determined gable garage
(0
Walnut StyleNear: 1914-15, L-plan vernacular Special Significance; this cottage doubled C None
II05 cottage as a grocery and residence, a rare
example of conunercial activity in the
district, Edgar R. and Edith Champion
cottaae
Walnut StyleNear: 1894-95, Italianate style with Special Significance; original owner not C two-story side
II25-35 Colonial Revival influence, T -plan frame determined gable roof
house garage, wea-
ther-board (C).
Walnut StylelYear: pre-1896, vernacular hip roof Special Significance; original owner not C None.
1143 cottage with sinde front hit) roof dormer determined
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Walnut StylefYear: pre-1899, two-story side Special Significance; original owner not C 1.5-story single
1155 gable broad rectangular vernacular frame determined car garage,
house plan weatherboard
(C)
Walnut StylefYear: pre-1899, modified Gothic Special Significance; James Howie C None.
Il79-Il85- Revival style, two-story frame side gable Triplex
Il95 tri-Dlex Dlan
Walnut StylefYear: 1876, ltalianate style, two- Special Significance; original owner not C None.
1243 story stone/stucco rectangular honse plan determined
Walnut StylefYear: pre-1867, 1.5-story gable Special Significance; an early vernacular C None.
1251 front vernacular cottage cottage particularly in this part of the city,
, ori.m;ar -owner not determined
Walnut StylefYear: pre-1896, single story gable Special Significance; original owner not C None.
1267 front vernacular cottage determined
Walnut StylefYear: pre-I 883, two-story frame Special Significance; J. William White C Flat roof shed
1283 gable front vernacular side hall Dlan Honse (NC)
Walnut StylefYear: 1884-85, l.5-story gable front Special Significance; John C. and Mary C Single-story
1289 frame vernacular cottage plan McDonald Cottage gable front
garage,
weatherboard,
1956 (NC)
Walnut Low limestone wall C N/A
1289 Structure
Walnut StylefYear: pre-1890, two-story Special Significance; AIleD! Alvin H. and C Two garages
1293 vernacular L-plan Lorn Fluck Honse (1) gable front
weatherboard
(e), (2) hip
roof frame,
deteriorated,
(NC)
Wilbur StylefYear: pre-1915, elongated two-story Special Significance; James H. and Sarah C three-car
490 brick Colonial Revival residence Wallis House attached
garage, flat
roof, fronts
north, second
flat roof
garage, 1971
(Nc)
Wilbur StylefYear: c.1914-15, two-story frame Special Significance; Fred and Lena C gable front
520 L-plan vernacular residence Meyer Honse. double garage
(NC)
Wilbur StylefYear: 1904-05, I.5-story frame Special Significance; Edward J. and C None
530 vernacular T -plan Fannie Taylor Cotta~e
Wilbur StylefYear: pre-1872, ltalianate style 1.5- Special Significance; original owner not C None
538 stOry side gable brick Dlan determined
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Wilbur Style/Year: c.1925-26, cubic frame hip Special Significance; Hugh and Susan NC Gable frout
540 roofpJau Chandler House frame shed
(NC), double
garage with
masonite
claddillp (NC)
Wilbur Style/Y ear: pre-l 889, vernacular pyramid Special Significance; original owner not C Noue
561 roof frame cottage, with substantial determined
concrete rear addition
Wilbur Style/Year: pre-1872, two-side gable two- Special Significance; original owner not C None
570-572 stOry frame vernacular hollBes determined
Wilbur Style/Year: pre-1909, house converted Special Significance; Robert and Rachael C None
571 from large stablelbarn post-1950, pre- 'Friedel! apartments
1955
Wilbur Style/Year: pre-1889, rectangular L-plan Special Significance; original owner not C 3-4 car frame
610 stuccoed cottage on raised stone determined garage, shed
foundation, vernacular plan roof(C)
Wilbur Limestone wall supports south side of C N/A
610 sheet Structure
West lIth Style/Year: c.1897-98, Queen Anne style. Special Significance; This was a very C None
510 Ferd Heer, Sf. architect excellent example of the style given the
asymmetry of plan and particularly the
northwest portion that reads a1most as an
attached distinct house front, Edwin W.
and Marv Albee hollBe
West II th Style/Year: c.1897-98, Classical Revival Special Significance; Frederick A. Rumpf C rear attached
542 and Gothic Revival styles with an house garage
ecclesiastical feel, two-story frame side
gable rectangular plan
West lIth Style/Year: 1925, Spanish/Mission style, Special Significance; Martha E. and Mary C basement
555 Karl F. Saam, architect, two-story McDonald hollBe) garage
elongated L-plan tile house with stucco
cIaddIDQ
West 11'" Limestone wal! fronts south and east C N/A
555 sides of the property Structure
West lIth Style/Year: 1896, Queen Anne style with Special Significance; Adolph and Ennna C None
560 Classical Revival influences, W. F. Luesch house
Giulburt, architect
West II th Low limestone wall fronts on east and C N/A
560 north sides of the property Structure
West 11th Style/Year: 1875, two-story squarish Special Significance; Jo1m Bell residence C None
563 brick L-plan, Second Empire style Ora
Holland, architect
West lith Limestone retaining wall C N/A
563 Structure
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West II" StylelYear: 1900-01, late Queen Anne Special Significance; Arthur B. and C
595 style (massing, bays) with Neo Classical Elizabeth K. Carlin house
s lefront orch
West II StylelYear: 1851, 1860, ltaIianate Style Special Significance; original owner not C Gazebo (NC),
596 two-story brick T-plan detennined two-car
concrete
garage with
deck (pre-
1950 (C)
West II Limestone wall fronts the property C N/A
596 Structure
West II StylelYear: c.1874, Styles were ltalianate Special Significance; Wilbur E. C two
605 or vernacular originally, Neo Classical Robinson, 1874, fITst directory listing. outbuildings,
c.1910, modified into a artments 1945 see below
West II StyleIY ear: vernacular single-story frame Special Significance; relocated building NC
605, Unit 16 gable roof cottage, relocated to property
ost-1955
West lIth StylelYear: post-1909, 1.5-story brick Special Significance; outbuilding C
605, carriage carriage house
house
West II Concrete steps, sidewalls and prominent C N/A
605 rounded ca s at to and base of each side Structure
West II StylelYear: 1952, very late Tudor Revival Special Significance;August J. and C Two-car tile
630 brick cottage design Cardelia A. Papke cottage garage, flat
roof, 1952 (C
West II NC None
635
West II C None
636
West II C None
640
West II" C None
641-649
1899-1901
WestIlw StylelYear: 1870,1895, 1.5-story Special Significance; Lawrence Crock C None
646-652 vernacular frame gable front (west core) first directory listing for 242 West 11th,
with Modified Gothic style east side wing 1874
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c.1895
West lIth Sty1elYear: c_1897-98, Queen Anne style Special Significance; George A. and C None
653 Carrie Fifield house
West 11'" Style/Year: C, I 897-98, Queen Anne style Special Significance; Charles Thill house C small side
656-662 with Classical Revival influence gable shed
INe)
West 11th StylelYear: c.1897-98, Second Empire Special Significance; George H. and C hip roof
663-675 style with Modifed Gothic influences. MolIielMary Fry house garage,
Two-story rectangular frame plan weather-board
cladding Ie)
West lIth StylelY ear: c- I 873, ltalianate style two- Special Significance; Owen and Teresa C None
683 storv frame gable front L-plan M- Conwav house
West lIth Style/Year: c.1935-36, fOlITsquare plan 'Special Significance; E. C. Kuhnle house C Attached flat
694 roof garage
West lIth StylelYear: c.1914, Craftsman style two- Special Significance; F. B. Johnson house NC hip roof
695 story frame hip roof rectangular plan concrete block
garage IC)
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8. Significance Statement:
ArchitectslBuilders. Continued:
Hyde, Franklin D.
Holland, A. Ora
Rague, Jolm F.
Saam, Karl F.
Wodrich, Augustus
Woods, W. J.
The West Eleventh Street Historic District is eligible for National Register listing on the basis of its architectural
significance (Criterion C). Due to its prominent bluff top vista and the clustering of many of the best residential designs of the
city along that bluffftont, the district is Dubuque's "best of show" award winner for late Victorian architecture. From the
earliest years of the city's development, residents and visitors have been drawn to walk and drive its meandering and interlaced
streets to enjoy both the commanding vista of the Mississippi River and the opposing lllinois-Wisconsin shoreline as well as the
tree-canopied neighborhood that comprises this district. The district presents the best intact and cohesive collection of large and
broadly sited late Victorian high style brick and ftame residential designs and these cluster principally along Grove Terrace,
Highland Place, and West 11th Street. The remainder of the district comprises a mixture of substantial and well preserved
middle class duplexes and single family homes. The district is physically tied together by topography, in the form of a plateau-
like setting that is sharply defined on three sides, to the north, east and south, by steep bluffs. While reflective of Dubuque's
overall architectural mix of styles, popular house types and vernacular types, the district primarily represents a focused
intensive development in the years 1870-1910. The resulting mix of types and styles favors late Victorian designs but the
district does include a good number of very early house examples, dating as early as 1847. The district nicely reflects the
greater Dubuque reality that large-scale municipal growth generally ceased c.19l0 and consequently the district, like the city in
general, lacks very many examples of the late 19th and early 20th century revival styles. Indeed, many pre-existing residences
were made over in lieu of building anew. These examples significantly represent the on-going struggle between emerging
national design tastes and a community where a conservative and strong vernacular building tradition held sway. The district is
virtually exclusively residential in its makeup and lacks the landmark churches or institutions that are common to the city.
There is a single commercial property although at least two homes once contained minor storeftonts.
The architecture of the district reflects the difficulties of expanding a city that was substantially land-locked by
prominent bluffs which ran continually along the western edge of the original river terrace city location. Topography hindered
inland trade and communication as it did residential development. The bluffs and the deep ravines that pierced them and which
defined the rolling land beyond the bluff ftonts, hindered access, the provision of needed water and sewer services, and the
difficult terrain itself challenged home and road building. Houses were built within the district confines ftom the earliest days
of the city, but solving these impediments to more substantial development made the district possible.
The district as derIDed and presented is made cohesive both by its architectural mix and its topographical setting. The
inclusion of Lor as Boulevard is admittedly an exception to the "plateau" unity of the district, but that major arterial is
functionally and architecturally integral to the district. The period of significance is set ftom 1847 through 1954 because the
few post-I 91 0 residences represent a minimal infilling and replacement process following the earlier development of the
district.
The West Eleventh Street district was identified c.1974 as one of six outstanding historic residential districts. Two of
the six were listed on the National Register in 1984, and this district and the proposed West Eleventh Street district were locally
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designated in 1979. The six districts were identified as a result of a comprehensive citywide survey and each district
represented an identifiable cohesive collection of well-preserved house types and styles. Two districts, Jackson Park and
Cathedral District, represented residential architecture that predominantly dated to the second half of the 19ih Century. The
West Eleventh and Langworthy districts both include very early house designs but they in the main represent later infilling and
development in the years leading up to the First World War.
The proposed district includes one individually listed National Register property, the Charles Hancock House, 1105
Grove Terrace. The Iowa State Historic Preservation Office has determined that 586 and 637 Arlington are individually eligible
for National Register listing. Consultants (without SHPO concurrence) have recommended that the following properties are
also individually eligible for listing: 510, 542, 563, 636, 975, 990, 1095, 1207, 1295 Grove Terrace, 1295 Prairie, 632 Chestnut,
1105, 1125 Highland Place, 561, 571 Jefferson, 464, 483, 509, 530, 597 Loras Blvd.
This district is nominated in association with the multiple property document "Dubuque-The Key City: The
Architectural and Historical Resources of Dubuque, Iowa, 1837-1955." That document defines a range of historical contexts, a
range of Dubuque styles, and further defines a residential historic district as an eligible property type. This district is
recommended as being National Register eligible due to its association with the several successive chronologically defined
contexts, 1859-1955. This district does include a number ofpre-1859 houses but they can only individually represent the
earliest historic context, dated to 1833-58.
This district is nominated in association with the multiple property document "The Architectural and Historical
Resources of Dubuque, Iowa, 1833-1955." This nominated district meets the requirements as set forth in that document. The
multiple property document defmes a range of chronologically defined historical contexts, describes a range of Dubuque styles,
and establishes registration requirements for nominated resources. This historic residential is associated with and represents all
four historical contexts as set forth and it contains a good number of architecturally significant resources as are identified in the
architectural context. Finally, the nominated district represents the design, construction and development efforts of a number of
significant Dubuque architects, builders and developers. The list of contexts are:
Frontier City on the Mississippi River, 1833-1858.
The Key City, 1859-1893
Fitful Growth and Maturation, 1893-1910
An Era of Stability, 1910-1955
The Architecture and Builders of Dubuque, 1833-1955
The houses in this district well represent the first three of these contexts but also the fourth one, given that the latter context
witnessed comparatively little house building and produced a lower than expected range ofpost-1910 house styles and types. A
goodly number of house examples pre-date 1858 and represent the lead mining era that dominated the city's development and
served as the initial catalyst for westward city expansion atop the bluffs and hills. The two context, dating to 1859-1910,
account for the greater proportion of district houses.
Property types are broadly defmed as all resource types that are significantly associated with each context. The
registration requirements for each context describe each applicable resource category, in this case, individual and multi-family
residences exhaust the district's range of resources, long with outbuildings and a few retaining walls. For each context, the
district meets the registration requirements of Criteria B and C, that the resources be associated with the working careers of
significant Dubuque residents, and that the resources represent the best examples of styles, types, use of materials and
construction techniques to be found in the city. Each context identifies listed or eligible properties that best represent and
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interpret that context, and this district is so listed under every context. The document specifically recommends the West
Eleventh Street Historic District as being National Register eligible.
The Attraction of the Bluffs as House Sites:
The high bluffs that fonned the western edge of the city proper offered serious obstacles to the westward spread of
Dubuque. The aesthetic attraction of the vista, clean wholesome air and larger lots or acreages, encouraged home builders to
surmount the bluffs and to build homes. A contrasting trend was the proximity of the many lead mines to the district and these
actively encouraged the miners to fmd lodgings close to their claims. This meant that the district residents would not all be
country gentry. The lead mine owners would live close to the miners. The Jesse Farley house, 636 West 11'" Street (1848), is
an excellent example of this early nexus.
As early as 1856, as the following account describes, houses occupied the bluffs above the city:
The appearance of the bluff dotted over with the cottages and prominent buildings as viewed from the east
side of the Mississippi, is truly a beautiful scene - one which strikes the stranger with astonishment in viewing
a city, which for business blocks, beautiful residences, and grand romantic scenery surrounding is not surpassed
by any city in the Western states (Daily Republican, October 22, 1856).
This affmity for the bluff fronts continued after the Civil War and one favored close in bluff front was that of Seminary Hill,
located immediately north of the Jackson Park Historic District, above West Seventeenth Street. When R. S. West sold his
house on that hill for $9,000 in late 1865, the point was not missed by the Herald writers. They observed "Elevated and
picturesque residences are looking up. Every property near the bluffs, with anything like a first class house is asking $10,000
for it (Herald, November 24, 1865)."
Houses cluster along the bluff top: South Grove Terrace (DeSoto Terrace), c.1900,
note that the houses front east (Grove Terrace runs behind the houses in this view). View west.
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Bluff front, c.1910, note the treeless bluff front. The houses on the bluff line Grove Terrace and Highland Place
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo lINK 3416).
In the West Eleventh Street area, there were two conspicuous bluff fronts, that which fronted east towards the city and
the river, and that which fronted south towards Julien Avenue. Both "angles" attracted large and substantial house building in
the early years of the city's development.
The easier route to building west lay along the several farm/market thoroughfares that followed the hollows that cut
through the bluff fronts. The prominent ones were Julien Avenue, to the south of the district, that became University Avenue,
and West 14th Street, which was renamed Loras Boulevard in 1940. Julien was the more commercialized arterial. House lots
could be more readily accessed up these natural hollows. West 14th Street was ideal for house building, given the breadth of the
ravine and the gradual incline of the street westward. That corridor provided access to the higher land to the south, via Dell,
Prairie and Walnut streets. Grove Terrace also briefly connected with West 14'h Street. Indeed, these roads encouraged and led
the westward expansion and house building notices ranged well to the west from the earliest years on. The laying of gas pipes
along West 14th Street was reported in 1876. The Herald reported, on June 2, 1876 "The gas company are running main pipes
on 14th Street. That thoroughfare will be one of the most prominent and desirable streets in the city s soon as the contemplated
improvements are finished." William H. Peabody was building 460 and 464 West 14"' Street, matching two-story side gable
brick Italianate homes at the same time (ibid., June 15, 1876). The distinction of living atop the bluffs encouraged the
formation of neighborhood social organizations. As early as 1894 there was an organization known as the "Twelfth Street Hill
Ladies Circle" (Telegraph, November 3,1894).
Waters and Sewers. Fire and Police Protection. and Tumbling Rocks:
The problem with living on a hill is that hills are prone to erosion and collapse. The Dubuque bluffs and hollows were
famous for their susceptibility to collapse and washout during heavy rains and flashfloods. This did not favor house builders
and as noted, the bluffs were denuded of any protective timber and were therefore all the more unstable. The newspapers are
replete with accounts of tumbling rocks. In 1878 for example, a 200-pound missile landed in front of Mrs. Cosgrove's kitchen
that stood on the alley between Arlington, Loras, Prairie and Dell streets (Die Iowa, August 29, 1878).
Stone retaining walls were employed to terrace the bluffs and vineyards were a common feature on the bluff fronts. The
walls too failed, as one did in Mr. Rhomberg's vineyard on the bluff below Julien Avenue in early 1875. The editors of Die
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Iowa were not surprised at the failure, observing that walls were commonly "built in the American fashion without regard for
the burden to be carried..." (Die Iowa, April 22, 1875). The surviving walls in the district were properly built, using massive
walls and in some instances combinations of exposed bedrock and supplemental stone walls. The massive wall at the corner of
Alice and Wilbur streets is an excellent example of this combination. In 1914 the City Council acted to prohibit street
excavations for a ten-year period by residents on Arlington, Gmve Terrace, West Eleventh, and Walnut streets. This measure
presumably prevented individual sewer and water connection or construction efforts ITom destabilizing these unstable streets.
The sequence of laying primary sanitary sewer lines began in the northeast portion of the district in 1889 when West
14th (Loras) and Bluff streets were sewered. The east central portion of the district was comprehensively sewered a year later,
with mains running up West 12th, the north end of Grove Street, the east end of Arlington Street, Highland Place, West Eleventh
(east of Spruce), and Olive streets. The east end of Chestnut and Avon streets were sewered in 1891,joining the West Twelfth
Street system. More substantial improvements in 1894 linked Prairie (north of Chestnut) to the Mineral/Bluff system and the
south end of Olive and north half of Alice to the West Twelfth system. Most important, Julien Avenue was sewered and Wilbur
was linked to it. South Grove Terrace was sewered into the Twelfth Street system in 1895. The alley between West 14th and
Arlington was sewered in 1897, and linked to the Loras/BluÎf system.
No new sewer lines were constructed until 1911 at which time Mineral was finally sewered west of Prairie Street.
Walnut north of Chestnut was sewered to Mineral in 1913. Jefferson and the south end of Spruce streets were sewered and
linked to the Julien Avenue systern in 1914. Arlington, west of Highland Place, was sewered in 1914 as well. Chestnut wasn't
sewered until 1921 after World War 1. Sewer dates for Walnut, Prairie, West Eleventh, and the alleyway west of Walnut and
north of West Eleventh have not been found. The south ends of Alice and Olive Street were sewered only in 1958, making
possible the several apartment complexes in that area.
The fledgling municipal water system was simply unable to surmount the bluffs. Bluff top and western suburb dwellers
were dependent upon their cisterns and wells for water and droughts forced them to have water hauled. Municipal water not
only relieved them of this precarious and often unhealthy dependency but it also provided fire protection. Fire was a major risk
and the Hill Fire Company wasn't organized until the mid-1880s. It could do little without water on the scene, but initially it
mattered little because of the tremendous response time it took for the city companies to reach distant homes. In the early years
neighborhood bucket brigades and early warning were the only protection.
As late as the end of 1894 it was reported that the city's reserve water tank on the hill was never full, the demand
constantly challenging the system's ability to replenish it. When water mains reached the Diamond House, at Hill and Julien, in
1876, the National Demokrat noted that "It is unlikely that water would follow pipes any further up." As late as 1893 the
firemen arrived at a fire at the head of Julien only to discover that there was no hydrant pressure. As the building was
consumed, they had to await the arrival of a pumper unit (Telegraph, August 18, 1893; December 7, 1894; National Demokrat,
August 10, 1876).
Suburban properties were susceptible to burglary when nobody was at home. A plague of burglaries on the Eleventh
Street and Seminary hills in late 1894 prompted residents to demand an increase in their existing allotment of just one police
officer. The City added two more officers, one for Fenelon Place, and one for Seminary Hill (Telegraph, November 10, 1894).
Laving Out Streets:
As the 1872 overview shown below indicates, all of the principal district streets were established by that time, save for
Wilbur and Grove Terrace. Development was heaviest in closer proximity to access ITom either Julien/8th streets to the south,
or Mineral ITom the north. Mineral was fairly solidly built up, to Hemion Street on the north side, and to Prairie on the south.
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1872 Birdseye view (view northwest, district boW1daries added)
This 1875 plat shows Grove TeITace in place, it was first called DeSoto TeITace, being renamed in 1921 (although all
directory and other records call it South Grove Terrace below West Eleventh, and Grove Terrace to the north, well before this
claimed name change)- Wilbur Street had its origins as East Rock Street and it was renamed in 1921 as well. Still absent were
Arch and Wilbur streets in the southeast corner of the district. Grove Street was graded and McAdamized in 1883 and Grove
Terrace gained sidewalks along its east side in 1894 (Herald, April 25, 1883; Telegraph, JW1e 27, 1894).
Presumably the establishment of streets closely preceded the building of sewers- If so, South Grove Terrace likely dates
to the early I 890s, and Wilbur to the same time period. The relationship of home building to the provision of sewer service in
Dubuque has been foW1d to be a weak one at best. The problem was that homeowners had to pay the connecting fees and were
loathe to do so. City fathers were bewildered by the time lag between the laying of mains and the utilization of the service or
the profound lack of response. When the sewer line was being laid along the north end of Walnut Street in mid-1894, the
Telegraph, presumably at the urging of the City CoW1cil, argued that property owners or landlords would all benefit in property
values, pennanent property improvement and rents if the hookups were quickly made. Much Was made that same summer when
a Bluff Street property owner cleaned out his cistern and dumped the sludge in the street. Water hookups were more attractive
to property owners it would appear. The Telegraph noted that within a month of installation, 15 hookups had been made on
Seminary Hill properties (Telegraph, July 27, August 1,29, 1894).
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Formal grade establishment for the district's streets came about rather late and it can be assumed that permanent
pavements post-dated grade settings. Here are the several streets, dates the grades were fixed, and first known paving dates
(Telegraph-Herald, December 27, 1914):
Chestnut
Grade
Prairie to Highland Place, 1911
Grove Terrace to Highland, 1914
West of Walnut, 1900
Highland Place to Walnut, 1915
West Fourteenth to Arlington, 1927
West Eleventh to Wilbur, 1912
Northeast of retaining wall to West
Eleventh, 1912
Paving
Grove Terrace to Highland, asphalt, 1914
Street
Arlington
Dell
Grove Terrace
West Twelfth to Arlington, asphalt, 1914
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Rose
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Walnut
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West Twelfth
West Fourteenth
Wilbur
Arlington to West Eleventh, 1914
West Fourteenth to alley north of
West Eleventh, 1925
Walnut to Alta Vista, 1923
Julien to Wilbur, 1928, 1954
Chestnut to West Eleventh, 1908
West Fourteenth to Chestnut, 1913
Julien to West Eleventh, 1913
Grove Terrace to Grove Terrace
South, 1912
Highland Place to west end, 1914
Grove Terrace to Bluff and
Arlington, 1908
Bluff to Prairie, 1913
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Arlington to West Eleventh, asphalt, 1914
Julien to Rose, asphalt, 1914
Arlington to West Eleventh, asphalt, 1914
Bluff to Grove Terrace, asphalt, 1914
1889 Birdseye view (view northwest, district boundaries added)
By 1889 Wilbur Street is depicted without its present-day South Grove Terrace northward link. The upper part of
Grove Terrace is both present and fully developed and West Twelfth Street links its midpoint with Bluff Street to the east.
Substantial development, since 1872, has taken place along West Eleventh Street (left of center) and generally across the center
and west central areas of the district. St. Josephs College is visible in the upper right center. Its proximity to the district served
as an impetus for growth as well as for a symbolic link between neighborhood and the nearest institution. The school was
renamed Loras College.
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St Josephs College (Souvenir Gems, 1897)
Getting UP the Bluff:
First there were wooden steps up the bluffs, the first reference dates to 1871 when Capt West built a 100-step flight to
his house on "West Point" Anotherreference to Bluff Stairs and their replacement, at an unstated location, comes in late 1876
when the expenditure of $250 did the work. The Hill Railroad served residents of the bluff top south of Julien beginning in
1877 and continued that service through 1884. It principally served the southern part of the bluff top, its impact on the West
II th Street district was to influence the establishment of a street railroad in later years. Clearly bluff top living was a popular
thing by 1877:
Those of our citizens who have not been on the hills for some time would be surprised to see the
improvements of all kinds that is going on. Houses are being built everywhere, and new streets are being laid
out in all directions. Many down town people are moving on the bluffs. It is thought that the population west
of Bluff street will reach 12,000 (Herald, August 5,1877).
Arlington Street benefited particularly in this early development and was "one of the most desirable residence avenues in the
city by this time (ibid., April 27, 1877). This success inspired the establishment of the Julien Avenue Railroad Company,
which, despite a 25-year charter from the city, never ran a car up the bluffs. The real success and inspiration to those who
resided on the Eleventh Street Hill was that of Jesse Farley's private inclined railway service. Farley started his own service in
1883 and then started letting his neighbors ride for a quarter. By the mid-I 880s it was a success and survived numerous fires.
The Eleventh Street Elevator Company was established in 1887, began service in May 1888, and began to use electrical power
in 1890. It differed structurally from the 4th Street model because it was elevated high above the ground surface. The upper
station was at Highland Place. The wealthy residents on Grove Terrace were less than pleased with the noise from the operation
and in mid-1895 the company put rubber tires on the cars. The Herald reported at least temporary success, "the noise is hushed,
neighbors satisfied and babies sleep sweetly and undisturbed again." Already by 1889 the hill railways were being hailed as "a
great convenience to residents on the hill" with a magnificent view that made it "a place of public resort not only by residents
but for strangers visiting the city" (Tribune, December 21, 1871; National Demokrat, May 25, June 15, 1876; Die Iowa,
September 13, November 8,1877; Herald, December 2,1876; June 25,1895; Dubuque: The Key City... 1889, p. 76).
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Elevator flyer, c.1895 (Center For Dubuque History, Street Elevators File)
In 1894 telephone lines running up the West Eleventh Street Hill were under buried in insulated cables to improve
faulty service. The elevator company began the construction of the present day "Eleventh Street Wall" in 1896, hiring Isaac
Proctor to do the work. The wall was placed "on the east side of DeSoto Terrace" after the property at 1090 Grove Terrace was
substantially filled. Two years after the work began, the contractor and city were at odds. In 1898 the city detennined that it
wouldn't accept the wall because it wasn't built to municipal specifications. In mid-l 898 when the elevator company re-elected
its board of directors, it explained that its operating loss for the year was due the costs of building the wall. It gave the wall to
Proctor. By 1899 it was called "Moro's Wall" (Telegraph, August 3,1894; July 25, 28,1898; July 8, August 1,1898).
The elevator was fmally abandoned in 1927 and concrete steps now pass through the surviving arch. It is interesting to
note that public transportation in streetcar or bus form, never reached the district and even West 14th Street was too steep to
allow streetcar access uphill to the west. The closest route was along Julien (now University) and Hill to the immediate south, a
route that followed the old 1877 Hill Street Railway route.
The success of the street elevator represented the growing popularity of simply visiting the bluff top to take advantage
of the view and the fresh air. Public interest in climbing the bluff was no late development. In 1876 it was noted that
"Arlington street is becoming famous as a moonlight promenade, and the people up there are thinking some of changing its
name to 'Lover's Bower' " (Herald, July 27, 1876).
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Eleventh Street Elevator and the famous wall, view west, c.19 I l.
Note the wooden steps to the south.
West 1 Ith Street exists as a path to the north of the elevator and ascends to Grove Ten-ace.
Plat Development:
A. M. Daniel's Subdivision of Town OutLots 665-66, 685-66,705-06 and 715-16 was filed May 14,1853 and
comprised all of the land south of present-day Loras, north of West I Ith Street, west of Bluff, and east of the west lots along
Prairie Street. While Grove and High failed to link northward with Loras, an unnamed connection (later Dell) was provided.
The plat allowed for the present day streets of High, Grove (the north half), Prairie, and Walnut (renamed Arlington). Future
Chestnut Street was laid out as a 30-foot wide alley and was unnamed. The ground to the south of it was left un-platted. The
lots fi-onting east onto Prairie were each 100xl95 feet and oriented east/west. Those on Loras and Walnut/Arlington were 50-
60x86 fi-onting north on Loras, 50-60xl00 north of Walnut and 50-60xI44' deep south of Walnut. A 20-foot wide alley ran
east/west between Loras and Walnut. Lots along Grove and High oriented east/west. Between High and Grove they are large,
100-200xI70, east of Grove they are 50x140, and run between Bluff and Grove regardless of steep terrain. Grove extended
nearly north to Loras, but was impeded by lots already owned by Alfi-ed L. Brown.
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Ellen Corkery's Addition was the second district plat (filed March 25, 1854) and included the land located between
West 11 th (north), Bluff (east), the future site of Grove Ten-ace (west) and the south end of the present Grove Ten-ace. The plat
allowed for a 20-foot wide centered alley down the length (east/west) of the rectangular plan. Lots to the east, already owned
by "Kelly and others" were 150 feet deep. Those to the west, were 96 feet in depth, numbered 1-7 and the houses which
followed adopted the same house numbers on "South Grove Terrace." To the immediate west were the "Spaulding & Bonton
Lots."
The next plat, that ofF. E. Bissell, was in the extreme northwest corner of the district, west of Walnut Street, and north
of Chestnut Street. Five Walnut Street lots, on the west side of that street, are included in this district. When platted March 6,
1856 the west boundary of the plat was along the city's old corporation line.
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Grove Terrace at West Twelfth (at left), view southwest. Note the stone retaining walls as well
as the developing tree canopy. The road is not yet paved.
Henry S. Hetherington platted six lots in the southwest corner of the district, bounded on the south by West 11th, the
west by Walnut, and the east by Prairie. To the north was the large property associated with 1209 Prairie, a pre-1872 Italianate
style large house. The lots measured 50x150. Four lots fronted south on West 11 th Street. An alleyway running east/west
separated these from two adjacent east/west oriented lots that fronted onto Walnut and Prairie respectively. The plat was filed
on June 11, 1869.
North end of Grove Terrace, view northwest, houses visible left to right are 1245 Grove Terrace,
480 Arlington and 1295 Grove Terrae. West 12th Street ascends to Grove Terrace at this point.
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RMl161)
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An impressive five plats were filed during 1873. The same Alfred Brown who owned the Loras Street land in the
McDaniel Plat at the north end of Grove TelTace, re-platted the lots between Bluff and Dell on the south side of Loras into eight
50x86 lots (filed Febl"llilr)' 17, 1873). His plat blocked any possibility of connecting Grove and Loras.
1100s Block of Highland Place, c.1915, view northwest, houses left to right are 975, 995, 1025 and 1035 Grove TelTace
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo HAM948)
Are-plat of Out lots 666 and 685 in McDaniel's Addition, filed May 29, 1873, laid out seven new lots along the north
side of Arlington Street, between Grove and Dell streets. The subdivision of Outlot 667, filed May 31,1873, re-ordered the six
lots on the northwest corner of Loras and Bluff streets. Are-platting of Outlot 687 (filed June 12,1873) comprised the land
now bounded on the east by Alice, the north by West II'" and the west by Olive Street. The southboundary was the property
line of adjacent 970 Olive, the James FolTester House, a pre-I 872 ltalianate style house. The subdivision ofOutlots 823-24
(filed July 14, 1873), that portion of McDaniels Addition that was not originally broken up into lots, involved the land between
West II'" and Chestnut, the alley running west of High, and a theoretical northward continuation of Spruce Street. Mary Ann
Street was platted in the northwest quarter of the plat, this being present-day Avon Street. The northwest quadrant was owned
by Ann Wallis and was not subdivided. The southeast quadrant was owned by John Bell and he split off its eastern one third as
a separate lot. The southwest quadrant was owned by E. S. Norris and was broken up into three broad and deep lots, fronting
south on West II'" Street.
A minor subdivision, that of Lot 775, McDaniels Addition (filed August 5, 1874) simply divided the northernmost lot
on Grove, south of Arlington into quarters, the northwest quarter was broken off as Lot I, the remainder as Lot 2. The Central
Addition, filed on July 2, 1880, laid out two now lost streets, Rock and East Rock streets, in the area bounded by West 9'" Street
on the south and Wilbur Street on the north. It platted five north/south lots north of East Rock, and six lots to the south of it. A
few frame houses were built along this new street and just one, a brick ltalianate cottage, now addressed as 530 Wilbur,
survives. The last significant plat, the Grove Terrace Subdivision, filed December 13, 1897, laid out eight 50x126 east/west lots
that fronted east onto what was South Grove TelTace. The four platters, F. A. Rumpf, L. Lindenberg, C. M. Walker, and Fred
A. Weigel, owned the newly platted lots.
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Foot of West Eleventh, view west, 510 and 584 West Eleventh, left to right. West 11 th Street
steps ascend in right foreground. Photograph c.1890.
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RMl164)
Same perspective as above, north side of the street, 584 West Eleventh to left, 563 West Eleventh at right
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RMl 1 13)
House Construction:
Six houses pre-date 1856 and these with one exception cluster on the bluff fronts, mostly along Higlùand Place. Seven
other houses pre-date 1867 and these too tend to be positioned on prominent vistas. Just one house dates to the four-year period
1866-69. The next five years, 1870-75 witnessed rapid house construction and the emphasis was along the east/west streets.
The next five years witness very little new building, almost all of it along Arlington Street. House building doubled the next
five years, through 1885 and the next five years building exploded and the total number of houses was increased 75 percent.'
3 This number is exaggerated by the fact that many houses can be dated to pre-1889 due to the existence ofa birds eye view for that date, but
exact dates would distribute these houses to nruch earlier years in many cases.
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New construction between 1891-95 reflected the depression of those years with just a dozen new houses. The second half of
the decade made up for the deficiency with 31 new houses, the location emphasis continuing to be the east/west streets. The
final push in large-scale building between 1901-1910 reflected the building up of the southern half of Grove Terrace.
Subsequent construction was minimal and represented later infilling in the popular house styles and types. Just eight buildings,
half of these duplexes, post-date 1951 and six of the eight post-date 1969.
Time Period Number of Principal Streets Where Houses were Built
Houses
nre-1867 14 High Street (5)
1870-1875 27 Chestnut (5), Loras (5), West 11'"(5), Arlington
(3)
1876-1880 6 Arlington (3)
1881-1885 11 Walnut (5), Loras (3)
1886-1890 42 Loras (9), Chestnut (8), Jefferson (6), Grove
Terrace (6), Walnut (3)
1891-1895 12 Arlington (4), Loras (4)
1896-1900 31 Loras (9), West 11m78), Walnut 5), Arlin!!ton (4)
1901-1905 4 Grove Terrace (3)
1906-1910 10 Grove Terrace (4)
1911-1915 4
1916-1920 4
1921-1925 5
1926-1930 2
1931-1935 1
1951-1977 8
Historic Photographs. West Eleventh Street District:
584 West Eleventh, right, 571 Jefferson at the left
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo #117)
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Highland Place:
1163 Highland, view northwest (Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RM1157)
1125 Highland Place (Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RM1156)
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Highland Place, view northwest, from left to right, 1125-33, 1163 and 1175-93 Highland Place
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RMIO59)
Arlington Street:
Arlington Street west, 1295 Highland Place at left, 485 Arlington is the tallest building on the right
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Arlington Street, west ftom Highland Place, 586-90 Arlington at the left, 567 Arlington is the third
building on the right (Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RM1O60)
Loras/West Fourteenth Street:
Loras, view northeast ftom Prairie, 597 Loras in center, 573-83 Lorast, 636 Loras
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Loras, view northeast, left to right, 553-61, 533-41, 525, 517 Loras Blvd. c.1890
(Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RM1O79)
View north across Loras from Arlington and Grove Terrace, 440 and 422-24 Loras in foreground, left to right,
459 (bulls eye window), and 445 Loras opposite, pre-I 898 (Center For Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RMI042).
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Loras west from east of Bluff Street, left to right, north side, 437, 415-19, 407-09 Loras
(Center For Dubuque History, Loras College, Photo RMl129)
Chestnut Street:
96 Chestnut, view northwest, Sam Root photographer, c.1873
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9. Maior Bibliographic References:
Andreas, A. T., Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa. Chicago: AndreasAtlas Company, 1875.
Dubuque City Directories, 1858-1921.
Hardie, Michael, "A History of The Eleventh Street Elevator." Dubuque: Center For Dubuque History, Loras College (typed
MS, undated).
Jacobsen, James E., Dubuque-The Key City: The Architectural and Historical Resources of Dubuque, Iowa, 1837-1955.. Des
Moines: History Pays! Historic Preservation Consulting Finn, 2002.
Koch, Augustus, Birds Eye View of the City of Dubuque, Iowa, 1872. Dubuque: Center For Dubuque History, Loras College.
Kriviskey, Bruce M., Historic Preservation Planning and Dèsign Study in Dubuque, Iowa. Dubuque: Ben Miehe and
Associates, August 1981.
Kriviskey, Bruce M., Summary Memorandum. Dubuque Architectural Survey/Historic Preservation Planning Project 1978-79.
Dubuque: Bruce M. Kriviskey, April 1, 1980.
Lyon, Randolph W., Dubuque The Encyclopedia. Dubuque: First National Bank of Dubuque, 1991.
Oldt, Franklin T., and P. J. Quigley, History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1894, 1909, 1909/36, 1905/50.
Sommer, Lawrence J., The Heritage of Dubuque: An Architectural View. Dubuque: First National Bank, 1975.
Souvener Gems of Dubuque. Dubuque: Harger & Blish, 1897.
Wellge, H., "Perspective Map of the City of Dubuque, la., 1889." Dubuque: Center For Dubuque History, Loras College
West Eleventh Street Area Plan. Dubuque: Dubuque Department of Community Development, n.p.
Dubuque Newspapers:
Dubuque Daily Republican
Dubuque Tribune
Dubuque Herald
Dubuque National DemokYat
Dubuque Telegraph
Die Iowa
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USGS Coordinates:
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The district includes the following additions or parts thereof:
Subdivision ofpart of Lot 684
Outlot 667
A. McDaniel's Subdivision
M. A. McDaniel's Subdivision
L. A. Brown's Subdivision
Subdivision of Lot 809
Subdivision of Lot 823 and Part of 824
Kingman's Subdivision
Subdivision of Lot 824
F. E. Bissell's Subdivision
Subdivision of Outlot 738
Heatherington's Subdivision
Subdivision of Outlot 703
Central Addition
Farley's Subdivision
Subdivision of Outlot 687
Ellen Corkery's Addition
Grove Terrace Subdivision
all
Lots 1-6, properties fronting south on Loras
all except Lot 783, Block 4, and Lots 820-21, Block 7
all
all
all
all
all
all
Lots 6-14
three properties fronting east on Walnut, Block 6.
all
Lot 2 only
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Blocks 2-3, Lots 36-37 of Block 3
all
all
all
The district includes the north side of Loras Avenue to the east of Henion Street, the boundary follows Bluff Street at
the intersection of Loras and Bluff, south along Bluff, turning west to include the properties on the south side of Loras, west of
Bluff. The line follows the rear lot lines of those three properties, turning south at the junction with Grove Terrace. It runs
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West Eleventh Street Historic District
south along that street continuing to the north side of Ninth Street, following that street west to a theoretical southward
extension of Olive Street. It follows that line north to the south boundary of 538 Wilbur, west along same line, then north along
west line of same property, thence west along the south boundary line of Lot 3, Subdivision of Outlot 703, thence north along
west line of same lot to the south boundary of Wilbur Street and west. Thence south along the east lot line of 610 Wilbur, west
along south boundary line of same property, then north along the west property line of same property. Thence west along south
line of Wilbur Street, crossing Spruce and following the south and west property lines of Lot 36, Farley's Subdivision, north
along west lot line to the south lot line of Lot 37, same subdivision, thence north along west boundary line of same lot to the
south boundary line of Jefferson Street, thence west along same line to the south lot line of 1025 Walnut, thence north following
the west property line of that address and 1051 Walnut, thence east along West Eleventh Street, thence north along the alley that
runs parallel to and west of Walnut Street crossing Rose Street, passing north to the west of705 and 715 Rose Street, and then
behind the east-facing five properties west of Walnut and north of Chestnut streets. Thence east along the north boundary line
of 1293 Walnut, continuing east along the alley that runs parallel to and north of Chestnut, turning north at the intersection with
the west property line of Lot 819, Block 7, A. McDaniel's Subdivision, thence east along Loras to its intersection with Henion
Street, the point of beginning.
The district includes those houses which occupy the higher ground in an area defined by the bluffs (east), Julien (south),
and Loras (north). While Walnut is the logical western boundary in tenus of scale and period of housing, the properties
fronting west onto Walnut are included for the purposes of continuity. The houses along Loras, while lower in elevation,
comprise the logical historical gateway to the neighborhood.
Photographer: James E. Jacobsen
Date: November 18-19, 2003
Location of Negatives: City of Dubuque
Film Type: llford ASAI 00
Description:
Site of 11 th Street Elevator, from Bluff Street towards Grove Terrace along West 11 th Street
Loras Blvd. (fonnerly West 14th) west from Bluff Street
Walnut Street from south of Chestnut Street, Loras College in background
Walnut Street from Jefferson Street, west side of street
Jefferson, north side, from Walnut, 655-57, 663-65, 673-75 Jefferson (right to left)
Arlington from point west of Highland Place
Jefferson Street, north side, from Olive Street, 561, 571, 583 Jefferson (right to left)
Grove Terrace, west side, north from Wilbur Street
same, from West 11th Street
West 11th Street, south side, from east of Highland Place
same, from east of Olive Street
Highland Place, north side, from West 11th Street
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United States Department of the Interior
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OM8 App".,¡ No, 1024-0018
National Register of Historic Places
Continuation Sheet
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West Eleventh Street Historic District
Dubuque County, Iowa
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A list of property owners has been prepared and submitted, it will be appended to this document.
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