Category:Robert M. Bashford House
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Built in 1855, this Italianate house (an Italian Villa variant) at 423 North Pinckney Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was designed by August Kutzbock and perhaps Thomas Donnel (see the Property Record online). It was originally owned and lived in by H. K. Lawrence, a banker. The house was sold to Wisconsin Governor Edward Salomon in the early 1860s. The house was then acquired by Morris E. Fuller, an agricultural implement dealer, and his wife Anna Fuller in 1865, and they lived there until 1889. In 1889, Sarah Fuller, their daughter, married Robert McKee Bashford, a lawyer and newspaper publisher who later became the mayor of Madison, a Wisconsin state senator, and a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. He lived at the house until his death in 1911. Between 1916 and 1928, the house was the home of Dr. Corydon Dwight and Bessie Dwight, who helped establish Madison's Vilas Park Zoo. In the 1930s, the mansion became a boarding house, and it is presently utilized as an apartment building.
The house features sandstone block exterior walls with a front and side gable roof, eaves with dentils, a square tower with a low-slope pyramidal hipped roof, four-over-four double-hung windows, arched attic windows, decorative window trim, a front door with an arched transom, a front porch with square columns and a low-slope roof, a shorter rear ell with a gabled roof, and floor-height windows on the first floor. The house once featured many small balconies with brackets and railings on the second and third floors of the tower, and on the front gable, which have been removed, as well as a shallower but more ornate porch at the same location as the present porch.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1997.
Media in category "Robert M. Bashford House"
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Robert Bashford House, Madison, WI 06-04-2012 360.jpg 2,975 × 3,850; 8 MB
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Robert M. Bashford House, Pinckney Street and Gilman Street, Mansion Hill, Madison, WI.jpg 3,785 × 2,839; 5.21 MB
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- Built in Wisconsin in 1855
- August Kutzbock
- Thomas Donnel
- National Register of Historic Places in Dane County, Wisconsin
- Houses in Madison, Wisconsin
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
- Mansion Hill Historic District (Madison, Wisconsin)
- Historic district contributing properties in Wisconsin
- Apartment buildings in Madison, Wisconsin
- Italianate houses in Wisconsin