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SECTION 2: LAND USE AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS Each of the four local Historic Districts seek to preserve Downtown’s unique diversity of historic architecture as well as manage, appropriately and effectively, design changes that may occur to buildings and landscape setting within each District. Some of the unique architectural and historical characteristic of each Historic District is as follows: Pearl Street Historic District Located adjacent to the Metra Station at the corner of 11th Avenue and 55th Street, the Pearl Street Historic District was established in 1998 to preserve several of the earliest commercial and residential buildings in downtown Kenosha. Pearl Street is the smallest of the four downtown historic districts comprising just four buildings and ranging in architectural styles from the Greek Revival William Seymour House, to the Italianate/ Romanesque Maple House, which housed an operating hotel from the 1880s to the 1930s. The commercial building at 1100- 1106 55th Street features a cast-iron façade that allowed for more elaborate building ornamentation and detailing as well as a larger storefront area. The majority of the Historic District’s buildings have been recently adapted and rehabilitated for new office space. Maple House - Pearl Street Historic District Civic Center Historic District The buildings that comprise the Civic Center Historic District represent an outstanding collection of Classical Revival and Beaux Arts-styled civic architecture, a style that became popular in many cities across the country due to the influence of the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exhibition and the advent of the City Beautiful planning movement during the 1910s and 20s. Kenosha’s own City Beautiful plan, prepared by planning pioneer Harland Bartholomew in 1925, recommended the development of a new civic center in an area between 8th and 13th Avenues along the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad tracks. Six buildings comprise the Historic District, including the U.S. Post Office at 5605 Sheridan Road and the Kenosha County Courthouse at 912 56th Street. The Dinosaur Discovery Museum at 5608 10th Avenue, designed by noted architect James Knox Taylor and constructed in 1908, once housed the community’s Post Office until it moved to its current location in 1933. The former Moose Lodge Building, constructed in 1926 and located at 1010 56th Street, is currently used as as adjunct Kenosha County administrative space. Beaux Arts U.S. Post Office - Civic Center Historic District Classical Revival, Dinosaur Discovery Museum - Civic Center Historic District 32 CITY OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN KENOSHA DOWNTOWN STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN: STATE OF THE DOWNTOWN LAND USE AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS
Library Park Historic District Located at the southern edge of the downtown core, the Library Park Historic District, like the Civic Center District, contains several prominent civic and institutional buildings, including the Neo Classical Gilbert Simmons Memorial Library and Park, designed both by Daniel H. Burnham and noted Prairie School landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds; the Masonic Temple at 807 61st Street; and the Jewish Community Center- Beth Hillel Temple at 6050 8th Avenue. Other important institutional buildings include the Tudor Revival YMCA building at 720 59th Place, the Gothic Revival Episcopal and First Congregational Churches at 5900 7th and 5934 8th Avenues respectively, and the Colonial Revival Church of Christ Scientist at 6032 8th Avenue. Other notable buildings, structures and objects within the District include several large high-style homes ranging from the Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival styles, and the Abraham Lincoln statue and “Winged Victory” monument in Library Park, the latter of which was designed by Daniel Burnham. Beaux Arts, Simmons Memorial Library - Library Park Historic District Third Avenue Historic District Along Lake Michigan at the southeastern edge of downtown Kenosha is the Third Avenue Historic District, which includes Kenosha’s best collection of historic residential architecture designed in high style Queen Anne, Georgian, Tudor and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. These homes were home to several of Kenosha’s early industrialists, including Thomas B. Jeffery and Charles W. Nash, both prominent automobile executives during the City’s rapid industrial growth at the early part of the last century. Perhaps, the most important historic resource within the Historic District is the Kemper Center complex, which includes four prominent buildings in the Gothic Revival and Italianate styles, once housing a private girls’ school sponsored by the Episcopal Church. The complex is currently owned by Kenosha County. Gothic Revival, St. Matthews Episcopal Church - Third Avenue Historic District Colonial Revival House - Third Avenue Historic District CITY OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN KENOSHA DOWNTOWN STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN: STATE OF THE DOWNTOWN LAND USE AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS 33
Page 1: STATE OF THE DOWNTOWN REPORT APRIL
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SETTING A COURSE SECTION 5
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