2006 Preservation Awards
1350 Spaight Street
[photo: Jason Tish]
1350 Spaight Street
Anita Wager, owner
Maurice Menocal
Grace Cooper, Thom Wheeler and Scott Canfield, contractors
Award: residential restoration
The sky blue, two-story home at the corner of Spaight and Dickinson streets is one of several original Sears Kit homes in the Marquette neighborhood. Home owner Anita Wager purchased the residence in 2004. Keenly aware of this older home’s potential, Wager began major renovations of two areas the previous owners had used to advertise the home for purchase –- the closed-in front porch, featured in the October 17, 2004 “Home Section” of the Wisconsin State Journal, and the-one-and-only upstairs bathroom.
In August of 2004, craftsmen Thom Wheeler and Scott Canfield began removing the aluminum siding and any damaged, original clapboard siding and replaced it with cedar clapboards. The closed-in front porch and attached cement steps were removed. They were replaced with an open front porch surrounded by columns and railings and new wooden steps.
Grace Cooper, neighbor and contractor, worked on exterior changes with the addition of a custom white picket privacy fence around the perimeter of the back yard. Each board was carefully planed for the exact dimension to match the intimate enclosure of the small brick-laid patio. Wager and friend Maurice Menocal together removed drywall in an interior stairway exposing the original plaster.
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Other 2006 Award Winners
William and Fryetta Burmeister Residence
American Tobacco Company Warehouses
Ellsworth Block
23 N. Pinckney Street
Adolf and Edna Kannenberg Residence
Maurice and Elanor Johnson Residence
