The F. A. Chadbourn House is a historic house at 314 S. Charles Street in

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. The house is accompanied by a

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Description

Frederick A. Chadbourn was the son of R. W. Chadbourn, founder of the First National Bank of Columbus, and he and several of his family members were involved with the bank. His house, built in 1900, was one of five built by the Chadbourn family in the surrounding neighborhood. Architects

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designed the wood-sided

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture, also known as mock Tudor in the UK, first manifested in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture, in rea ...

house. The two-and-a-half story house features a front porch with

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arches and details, decorative

half-timbering Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the struc ...

on the upper stories, and a steep roof with several

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s. Chadbourn lived in the house until his death in 1947; his wife Gertrude continued to live there until her death in 1952.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chadbourn Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Columbia County, Wisconsin Houses in Columbia County, Wisconsin Tudor Revival architecture in Wisconsin Sandstone houses in the United States Houses completed in 1900