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HABS WIS,64-ELK,1- (sheet 1 of 6) - Octagonal House, East South Street, Elkhorn, Walworth County, WI
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HABS WIS,64-ELK,1- (sheet 1 of 6) - Octagonal House, East South Street, Elkhorn, Walworth County, WI
Description
Elderhin, Edward
Depicted place Wisconsin; Walworth County; Elkhorn
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 19 x 24 in. (B size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS WIS,64-ELK,1- (sheet 1 of 6)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: This unusual house of another day was conceived by an eccentric named Edward Elderkin, a young lawyer from the eastern states, who had emigrated to this little city in the wilderness in 1839. Many a community in the state of Wisconsin has one of these freak houses and Elkhorn is no exception. It was once the proud mansion of a large estate, but today it has only a door-yard garden surrounding it with a couple of age old spruce trees thrown in for good measure. Very little more can be said about this unusual domicile.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15
  • Survey number: HABS WI-14
  • Building/structure dates: 1851 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wi0110.sheet.00001a
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