Property Record
1313 TOPEL ST
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | EVERSON FARMSTEAD BARN |
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Other Name: | |
Contributing: | Yes |
Reference Number: | 229252 |
Location (Address): | 1313 TOPEL ST |
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County: | Jefferson |
City: | Lake Mills |
Township/Village: | |
Unincorporated Community: | |
Town: | 7 |
Range: | 13 |
Direction: | E |
Section: | 23 |
Quarter Section: | NE |
Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
Year Built: | 1880 |
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Additions: | |
Survey Date: | 2014 |
Historic Use: | barn |
Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
Structural System: | |
Wall Material: | Wood |
Architect: | |
Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
Demolished?: | No |
Demolished Date: |
National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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National Register Listing Date: | |
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Additional Information: | A 'site file' titled Everson Farmstead exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. 2014 - Associated with The Everson Farmhouse (AHI No. 6993). A second bank barn is located south of the first (AHI# 229249) and oriented with its long axis running north-south. The walls are clad in vertical board siding and the gable roof is covered in standing-seam metal. An earthen ramp provides access to a sliding door set off-center on the west elevation. The foundation is made of rubble fieldstone, with the exception of the southern end, which is coursed fieldstone similar to the northernmost barn’s foundation. Coupled with the off-center location of the main door, this indicates that this barn may have been extended when the c.1890 barn was constructed. Basement window openings on the west elevation contain rectangular, four-light, wood, fixed sash, while both levels of the west elevation have square four-light windows. Although no known resources on the property date to the earlier period of wheat-intensive farming, based on the form and proportion of the barn the oldest portion may have been an earlier threshing barn that was later raised and converted to a basement barn. |
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Bibliographic References: |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |