National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
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NFS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (January 1992) Wisconsin Word Processing Format (Approved 1/92) United States Department of Interior National Park Service 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 16 A). 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 "N/A" 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 (NFS Form 10-900A). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. [ 1. Name of Property historic name Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill Historic District other names/site number N/A 12. Location street & number various N/A not for publication city or town Milwaukee N/A vicinity state Wisconsin code WI county Milwaukee code 79 zip code 53201 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination 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 X meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that diis property be considered significant nationally^ statewide X locally. ( See continuation sheet for additional comments.) /) / ' ~~7 /jf />£^3<-^L />(. Signature of certifying official/Title Date State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. ( See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of commenting official/Title Date State or Federal agency and bureau Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill Historic District Milwaukee Wisconsin Name of Property County and State 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: * entered in the National Register. __ See continuation sheet. _ determined eligible for the National Register. __ See continuation sheet. _ determined not eligible for the National Register. __ See continuation sheet. _ removed from the National Register. _ other, (explain:) Signature of the Keeper Date of Action 5. Classification | Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (check as many boxes as (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources as apply) in the count) X private building(s) contributing noncontributing public-local X district 543 8 buildings X public-State structure sites ' public-Federal site 1 structures object objects 544 8 total Name of related multiple property listing: Number of contributing resources (Enter "N/A" if property not part of a multiple property previously listed in the National Register listing. ________None____________________ 0 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/single dwelling DOMESTIC/single dwelling DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling DQMESTIC/multiple dwelling RELIGIQN/religious facility RELIGION/religious facility 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) Tudor Revival Foundation Concrete Colonial Revival walls Brick Bungalow/Craftsman Stucco Mission/Spanish Colonial roof Slate Queen Anne other Stone Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) NFS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8-86) Wisconsin Word Processing Format (Approved 1/92) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section 7 Page I Kenwood Park- Prospect Hill Historic District ________________________Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI_______________________________ Description The Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill Historic District is a clearly definable part of the larger upper-middle-class residential area on the city of Milwaukee's upper east side that is one of Milwaukee's most architecturally significant neighborhoods. 1 The 551-building District is characterized by wide streets and large, well-built, well-maintained, and mostly architect- designed homes. Situated atop a bluff overlooking nearby Lake Michigan, the Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill Historic District is located about two miles northeast of Milwaukee's central business district. The District lies immediately to the north of the Newberry Boulevard Historic District (NRHP 3-7-94), a broad boulevard that is lined by similar residences, and just to the south are two more upper middle class residential districts: the North Point North Historic District (NRHP 3-24-2000) and the older North Point South Historic District (NRHP 9-4-79).2 The North Point area became one of Milwaukee's most prestigious residential neighborhoods largely because of the panoramic lake views that its bluff top sites command. The proposed Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill Historic District is both the largest and also the most recent of these outstanding residential neighborhoods in terms of the dates of construction of its buildings. The Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill District includes the area that is bounded approximately by North Hackett Avenue, East Edgewood Avenue, North Lake Drive, and Newberry Boulevard. All the land east of the District from Newberry Boulevard north to Kenwood Boulevard, is part of Lake Park (NRHP 4-22-93), which extends north along the Lake Michigan shoreline up to Kenwood Boulevard. This beautifully landscaped wooded park is one of Milwaukee's great urban treasures and it also contains a golf course and various pavilions and picnic areas, all connected by a system of curving pathways and roads. The park provides the principal focus for the several adjacent residential neighborhoods, including Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill, and its proximity was instrumental in their development. The District consists of portions of the Prospect Hill and the Kenwood Park additions to the City of Milwaukee and it includes most of the blocks that comprise these additions. Exclusively residential in character, the District is bordered by the Village of Shorewood to the north, by Lake Park to the east between Newberry Boulevard and Kenwood Boulevard and by large lakefront estates north of Kenwood Boulevard, and by other residential neighborhoods to the south and west. Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill's character is based in part on its location. Although the District contains no parks of its own it is strongly identified with the adjacent Lake Park, which partially bounds the District on the east. The residences on North Lake Drive between Newberry Boulevard and Kenwood Boulevard face the park, which extends to the edge of the bluff and continues down to Lincoln Memorial Drive and the shore of Lake Michigan below. Lake Park extends south of the District as well and thus links several Eastside neighborhoods, including North Point South and North Point North. Designed hi the 1890s by the renowned landscape architect firm of Frederick Law Olmsted and Company, the park is outstanding for its landscaping and planning. The plan of the District's streets follow the same Cartesian grid that dominates most of the city and they are laid out either parallel with or at right angles to the bluffs edge, the only exceptions being those along N. Lake Drive, which was laid out earlier than the District. Most of the blocks formed by this grid are long and narrow and most of 1 The 1990 population of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city, was 628,088. 2 "North Point" refers to a bulge in the coastline of Lake Michigan that, in conjunction with "South Point," forms the greater Milwaukee harbor. NFS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8-86) Wisconsin Word Processing Format (Approved 1/92) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section 7 Page 2 Kenwood Park-Prospect Hill Historic District ________________Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI______________________ the District's buildings face either east and west on the north-south streets that run the length of the district, or else they face north or south on the much less long cross street. Lots in the District are mostly rectangular in shape, the only exceptions being those in the trapezoidal-shaped blocks that have N. Lake Drive as their eastern edge. District lots vary considerably in size, those in the older southern end of the District (the Prospect Hill portion) being generally less wide than those further to the north in Kenwood Park. As a result, the houses on these lots tend to be taller and narrower than the wider, less deep ones in the northern part of the district, a fact that is also reflected in the architecture of the houses as well, with Queen Anne style houses being found on the narrower lots and Period Revival ones on the wider ones. Side yards are not ample in the older parts of the District although they are somewhat more generous than those in more modest Milwaukee neighborhoods. There are no alleys in the District; therefore, properties meet