You've got to see the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the library and in the incredible windows throughout this 1914 Craftsman-style house at 3316 W. Wisconsin Ave.
The 4,464-square-foot house is listed with realtor Sophia Barry for $449,500.
The house, which sits on a third-of-an-acre lot, has long been used as an office, which is why it has parking for 11 cars, but based on the photos, it looks like it's still suitable for use as a private home.
There are six bedrooms, a kitchen, pantry, a bath and a half, central air, two fireplaces and more in this brick bungalow.
The house was listed on the state register of historic places in 1989, three years after it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The NRHP inventory form calls the Charles Tharinger-designed house a "high style bungalow residence.
"It is one of the largest and best preserved Bungalow style residences in the city. It was designed by an accomplished residential architect of local importance who received numerous commissions from the city's wealthiest residents.
"He showed great depth of design expertise by employing Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Elizabethan styles in his work. Compared to all his known work, the Dahinden House ranks as Tharinger's best residential design. In the context of Bungalow style houses in Milwaukee, there are few others in the city that are of this scale and exhibit such a high level of craftsmanship and materials."
Tharinger was hired by Edward Dahinden, who co-founded the Franzen Paper Company and was its secretary and treasurer before becoming president.
Born in 1875, Edward Joseph Dahinden attended public and parochial schools in Milwaukee, graduating from West Division High School. He then worked in his father's vinegar factory on Milwaukee Street.
In 1898 he married Agatha "Ida" Franzen, whose father William owned the Northern Glass Works.
Dahinden was president of Franzen during the years he lived in this house, 1915-20.
In 1920, the Dahindens moved up to a newly constructed home at 2915 E. Kenwood Blvd. and in 1922 he co-founded the Dahinden-Schmitz investment company.
Edward and Ida – then living back on West Wisconsin Avenue (at the Marquette Apartments, now Marquette University's McCabe Hall at 1628 W. Wisconsin) – died one day apart in November 1939 after car accident in Vincennes, Indiana while on their way to Florida and are buried in Calvary Cemetery.
The house has served as offices for lawyers, doctors, architects and others since around the late 1940s.
I don't know about you, but I can see myself finding just the right book on those shelves to enjoy in the colorful refracted light of those leaded windows.
NOTE: There are many more photos and more information in the listing, which you can find here.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
