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Item Title
Octagonal House, East South Street, Elkhorn, Walworth County, WI
LocationEast South Street,
Elkhorn, WI
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS WI-14
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-15).
Building/structure dates:
1851 initial construction
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.
Related Names
Elderhin, Edward
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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