FIRST - Poured Grout (Concrete) House in U. S. - Milton, WI - First of its Kind on Waymarking.com

From the Milton House web site:
Goodrich built the Milton House in 1844. In this building he made architectural and structural history. The Milton House is the oldest poured grout (concrete) structure in the United States.

The material he used, which he called "grout," was a mixture of slaked (burnt) lime, sand broken stone, gravel and water. All materials were native to the area. His estimate of the materials used was: lime, 250 bushels, slaked cost 4 cents per bushel; lumber for standards and top of wall, $6; and the gravel was from his own pits. He estimated that the walls of the building were four times cheaper than wood and six times cheaper than brick.

The building was in the shape of a hexagon, 6-sided. Joined to the hexagon on the south was a long two-story section of 5 units, called the Goodrich Block. The upper floors of the hexagon and wing were living quarters and guest rooms. The ground floor of the hexagon housed a lobby and a dining room and the ground floor of the Goodrich Block housed businesses. In 1867 the third floor was added to the hexagon.

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