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⚜️Florence Yates House - Historic Photoshoot⚜️

📸With the hundreds of homes I’ve captured, there’s some that have me in absolute awe. This home at 1614 Emerson St, Beloit was one of them. This home has been kept in pristine condition with curtiosy of its homeowners over its 100 years.

🗞️Here’s some history about this marvelous property:

Built in 1927, the home was first owned by Miss Florence Yates. The house was built four years after the death of her father, P.B. Yates, a Beloit industrialist who was founder of P.B. Yates Machine Company (later the Yates-American Machine Company), one of Beloit's larger manufacturing concerns.

The red brick Florence Yates house is a Georgian revival structure, rising two stories plus attic with a gable roof. The strictly symmetrical facade is dominated by a two story, pedimented portico which bisects the north elevation and projects outward from the wall. Supported by colossal Corinthian columns and brick pilasters (with quoin-like detailing) the portico shelters a recessed entry and a second story porch. The entry door is surrounded by sidelights and the second story porch features French doors surmounted by a fanlight. The elliptical porch becomes the overhang for the first story entry.

The eaves of the house are treated as a classical cornice, with modillion and dentils above an unornamented frieze and architrave. The central pedimented gable, which has a bullseye window, is flanked by two round-headed dormers with interlacing muntins. The multiple-light, double sash windows on the first and second stories are symmetrically arranged and surmounted by flat stone arches with pronounced keystones.

Side wings, recessed back from the main facade, extend on either side of the main block and frame the house like bookends. The rear facade is bisected by a monumental pedimented portico and crowned by round-headed dormers. A garage stands to the rear.

The Florence Yates house is an architecturally significant example of the "period revival" architecture which dominated Beloit residential work in the 1920s and 30s. Built in 1927 by a wealthy Beloit family and designed by Rockford architect chester Wolfley, the house combines academically correct detail with a freewheeling spirit and large scale that unmistakably mark it a product of the 1920s, a house that is both lively and stately. SOURCE: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/record/property/HI81483/redirect

Listed by Gretchen Kingsley, Keller Williams Realty Signature