Fred and Lucia Farnham House


Fred and Lucia Farnham House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	553 W. James St., Columbus, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43°20′29″N 89°1′12″W / 43.34139°N 89.02000°W / 43.34139; -89.02000Coordinates: 43°20′29″N 89°1′12″W / 43.34139°N 89.02000°W / 43.34139; -89.02000
Area	less than one acre
Built	1867 (1867)
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP Reference #	09000580^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 30, 2009

Side view showing the houses cruciform.

The Fred and Lucia Farnham House is a historic house in Columbus, Wisconsin. The Italianate style home was constructed in 1867 by Columbus carpentry contractor Richard D. Vanaken, and was initially inhabited by Fred and Lucia Farnham. Fred Farnham had come to Columbus from New York in 1847 and became a prosperous merchant in the city; he married Lucia Marsh of New York in 1850. Farnham and James Allen, Lucia's brother-in-law, then became business partners and ran a highly successful produce and wholesale store. The profits from the store allowed Fred to build his new house at a corner lot on West James Street, a significant street in Columbus. The two-story house has a cruciform plan with a small kitchen wing in the back, similar to other Italianate houses in Columbus.^[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 2009.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Farnham, Fred and Lucia, House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-11-04.

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