Monday, November 28, 2011

727 Jenifer St - Thomas Manning House - 1855c


WAHI # 103048

This house is attributed to Thomas Manning (1820-1896) in the WAHI.  He was an Irish immigrant; listed at approximately this location through the 1871 City Directory.  In the 1850's and 1860's a was a pound master for the city.  Later he became a mason, and was responsible for laying some of the city's earlier stone gutters.

Madison writer and musician Alexius Baas was born and raised in the house. His father Stephen C. Baas ran a rental boat business at the foot of S. Hancock St.  Baas the younger details the history in this 1947 Captial Times Article.

This house does not seem to appear on the 1885 Harrison Map.  It has likely been a rental for a number of decades now, and appears to have suffered from it.


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