| Name: | Lang's Seven Gabled Cottage [Lang-Madsen House] |
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| Address: | 1103 Calhoun Avenue |
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| City/County: | Ocean Springs, Jackson County |
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| Architectural Styles(s): | Queen Anne |
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| NR District Name: | Old Ocean Springs (1987) |
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| Originally listed as element #94. |
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Two-story, frame, two-bay-wide (w-ww) Queen Anne Vernacular house with a multiple-gable roof and a gable partial
porch supported by square wood posts on pedestals. The entry is a two-light door on the main façade that
faces left (west). Windows are wooden 6/6 and 3/1 double-hung-sash and 25-light casement. Decorative features
include a spindle frieze, lace-like brackets, chevron pattern in the porch gable, and stained glass. The house rests on
a brick pier and concrete block foundation, has clapboard siding, and an asphalt shingle roof. A rear (north) partial shed porch was enclosed. A full-width shed-roof porch was appended to the rear (north) and was later screened. A shed-roof carport was added to the rear right (northeast). |
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| In 1887, Joseph Kotzum, a Bohemian immigrant who made his livelihood as a blacksmith and land speculator, purchased this lot for $25. In March 1894, Joseph Kotzum sold Lot 4, situated on what is now the northeast corner of Calhoun and Dewey, to Emile J. Lang for $250. Lang is attributed with building this house in 1894; however, the cost of purchase ($250) for the lot in 1894 indicates that the house may have already been erected. The house was locally referred to as Lang's Seven Gabled Cottage. E.J. Lang later sold his residence in 1899 to to Margaret L. Madsen for $700. |
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