The Jacob van Orden House is a historic house at 531 4th Avenue in

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. Jacob Van Orden, the president of the Bank of Baraboo, had the house constructed for his family in 1903.

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architectural firm

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designed the

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house, which was built by George and Carl Isenberg of Baraboo. The three-story house has a red brick first floor and a

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exterior with

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on the upper floors. Its design also includes a front porch with a second-story balcony,

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 ...

s on the front facade, and a roof with eight

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s, all with

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trim and wide

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. The Van Orden family lived in the house until 1938; the Sauk County Historical Museum moved into the house the following year. The house was added to the

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on September 6, 1996.

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National Register of Historic Places in Sauk County, Wisconsin Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Houses completed in 1903 Tudor Revival architecture in Wisconsin Baraboo, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-NRHP-stub Historic house museums in Wisconsin Museums in Sauk County, Wisconsin 1903 establishments in Wisconsin