The A. G. Tuttle Estate is a historic house at S4456 Elizabeth Street in

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. The house was built in 1869 for A. G. Tuttle, a merchant and nursery owner who moved to Baraboo from

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. Tuttle was known for developing local varieties of fruit, especially

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s; a Russian apple variety he grew brought him customers from throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota, and he was president of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society for several years. Tuttle's house is designed in the

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style; the style was most popular in the Eastern United States, including Tuttle's native New England, in the mid-nineteenth century. The house has a

cross-gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

d plan featuring steep gable ends with decorative

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along their

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siding, a porch supported by wooden columns at the front entrance, and a

bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. A bow window is a form of bay with a curve rather than angular facets; an oriel window is a bay window that does not touch the g ...

with wooden

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ling. The house's interior includes a trompe-l'oeil of

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, a landscape mural in the dining room that features the house itself, a

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rosette on the parlor ceiling, and many detailed moldings. The house was added to the

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on November 6, 1980.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Sauk County, Wisconsin Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Houses completed in 1869 Gothic Revival architecture in Wisconsin Baraboo, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-NRHP-stub