An 1887 photo of the William G. Hacker Residence at 1055 North Lawrence (now Broadway) . Loved ones users and a housekeeper are posed all over the a variety of porches. Note the lawn sprinkler (remaining). By 1896 this home experienced develop into the property of Levi S. Naftzger, notable neighborhood banker. This household is considered to have been made and designed by William Henry Sternberg (1832 – 1906). This home has many strong Sternberg layout functions which include various extremely corbelled chimney flues, a wooden fence (extremely related to other confirmed Sternberg attributes like the Miller Residence), several practical porches on the very first two stages and attractive porches on the third stage (3rd ground porches way too smaller to be purposeful and of a design and style recognized to be employed continuously by Sternberg), a damaged roof-line with various angles, pitches and dormers as very well as extravagant milled woodwork. Reviews of other Sternberg-intended houses report an abundance of coloured glass home windows on the third ground. This residence also has a variety of coloured glass windows (only on the 3rd floor). Evaluate the wooden fence listed here to the fence on the C.R. Miller home (a verified Sternberg design and style) and discover the hanging similarity.
The Hacker Residence at 1055 North Lawrence (now Broadway) was up coming doorway to the John A. Wallace household at 1021 North Lawrence. The Wallace home is a confirmed Sternberg-developed and constructed residence. In the photo in this article, the Wallace home would have been just off to the left. Images of the Wallace home have been posted to this photostream. Be aware the picket sidewalk out front of this residence and the carriage and buggy sitting in the “driveway” to the remaining of the dwelling. There seems to be a short “railing” on one particular facet of the sidewalk. Was that to hold people today off of the grass?
This residence was painted in numerous various colors. Contrary to Victorian households currently which have a tendency to be painted in brighter colors (yellows, pinks, lavendars, purples…), Victorian houses in the 1800s ended up without a doubt painted a number of colors, but individuals colours tended to be browns, greens, cream colours and other much more muted colors. Paint in the late 1800s was not the high quality we can get today, but it was incredibly strong. Paint has been all over for hundreds of a long time, but in the pretty distant past (like over 150 yrs in the past or so) it was really hard to make and its high quality was far from what we see right now. Paint is comprised of two main ingredients: (1) a pigment (for color) and (2) in the late 1800s, a binder (routinely boiled linseed) with some thinners to make it distribute superior. Boiled linseed oil dries speedier than uncooked or unboiled linseed oil and tends to make a excellent base for paint. In the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s and most of the 1800s, paint dies ended up agriculturally developed (plant-dependent) vs. being manufactured chemical composition. Some natural plant-dependent dyes include: indigo (for the color blue), Cochineal (crimson), Lady’s Bedstraw (vermillion crimson), Puccon roots (crimson). Powdered malachite can be employed as environmentally friendly pigment. Lambsquarter and pond algae can be applied for greens. Yellows can be attained from curly dock root and sumac root. Winged dock is a great yellow orange pigment. Walnut hulls, boiled or soaked in drinking water, produce a darkish brown stain and pecan hulls, processed the exact way, create a lighter golden brown stain. Quite a few other organic and natural dyes (both equally domestic and imported) were being used as pigments. In the late 1800s, Central America, specially, was coming up with newer and brighter shades that were being as still unavailable in the U.S. and initially had been pretty common. Ships plied the waters from South America up to New Orleans bringing boat hundreds of colourful organic and natural dyes which ended up in linseed oil-based mostly paints.
To make paint, pigments have been then extra to oils or glues or glue-like substances this sort of as gum from the acacia tree (gum Arabic). All over 1850, synthetic dies have been identified (zinc oxides). Zinc oxide pigments have been much less pricey to include in paint than the imported natural and organic pigments and rapidly went into mass production. In the 1860s and 1870 paints continued to increase in top quality. Linseed oil was staying mass created and was a person of the essential ingredients of paint at the time (1860s – 1870s). In 1870, Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams shaped the Sherwin-Williams enterprise and invested 10 many years striving to ideal a paint method wherever good paint particles would remain suspended in Linseed oil. In 1880 they succeeded in creating a system that was offered as “ready-mixed” and significantly exceeded the high-quality of all paints available at the time. It was then that emulsions based mostly on identical formulae, were being generated and promoted as ‘oil-sure distempers’. A “distemper” is the identify utilized for a glue-dependent paint, so these emulsions, marketed as “oil-certain distempers”, had been truly a hybrid of an oil-dependent paint and a glue-centered paint. In 1880 the new Sherwin-Williams paints ended up easily accessible in tins all over the country which include Wichita and they were being out there in a wide array of shades. They were being obtainable at the area hardware keep and came to Wichita by rail road. Inside of 10 yrs of commencing manufacturing, Sherwin Williams paints ended up becoming exported all around the world. Wouldn’t it be grand to see this Hacker residence in its unique paint colors!!
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This picture is courtesy of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, (www.WichitaHistory.org).
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