| Additional Information: | 2 STRY IONIC PORTICO ACROSS FRONT
2013 New Holstein Survey results:
Rising two-and-one-half stories, this Neoclassical Revival-style house is dominated by two-story, colossal porch columns with Ionic capitals resting on stone-veneered bases. A single, two-story pilaster is located at either side of the primary (south) elevation, while additional pilasters and sidelights accent the slightly projecting, one-story, central front entrance. A fully pedimented, upper half-story (evident on three elevations) includes an oval window with diamond paning. Windows throughout the house are largely regularly arranged, singular examples, some of which have been replaced. A flat-roofed porte cochere extends from the west side of the house. Alterations to the house include the removal of the original wooden (and later metal replacement) porch balustrades, the application of vinyl siding and the shortening of the original porch supports to include the stone-veneered bases and new porch deck/floor.
Designed by the Green Bay firm of Foeller & Schober, this house was built circa 1906 for George H. & Bertha Schroeder. George Schroeder was born in New Holstein in 1862, the son of German-born farmer Nicholas Schroeder and his wife Catherine. In 1887, he married Bertha Timm; they had two children: Georgina and Manila. George worked as a grain dealer, associated with the grain elevator of his father-in-law, Herman Timm. In 1902, he was among the organizers of the State Bank of New Holstein, where he eventually became the vice president. From 1908 to 1913, he partnered with Adolph W. Freund to run a general merchandise store. Bertha died in 1921 and George remained in the family home into the 1930s, selling in 1937. George married the former Anna Nehls after 1930. His 1940 obituary cites that he had a summer home on Lake Poygan (Winnebago County) and spent the winter months at his home at Tangaloe (sic), Mississippi. |
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| Bibliographic References: | historic image in "New Holstein: Land of Peace and Plenty," (1915), page 13, photo #1.
Alterations to the house are evidenced from a 1908 postcard view of the home, as well as in New Holstein: Land of Peace and Plenty (1915), 13; A 1977 photo of the house is included in the Wisconsin Historic Preservation Database (WHPD), which shows the replacement metal railings and balustrades; the columns and porch deck had already been altered by 1977, WHPD photo and record.
Although the land was purchased by Schroeder in 1899, assessor records offer a construction date of 1906. Plans on file at Berner Schober in Green Bay, the successor form of Henry Foeller, include a 1906 date on them, Griffiths, Conversation with Schnell; “Adolph W. Freund Called To Rest Friday Morning,” The Sheboygan Press, 27 December 1941, 2/4-5; “Bertha Schroeder,” Obituary, New Holstein Reporter, 31 May 1921; New Holstein: Land of Peace and Plenty, 22-23; “George Schroeder, 77 Dies at New London,” Appleton Post Crescent, 17 June 1940, 15, his obituary cites Tangaloe, however, a Google search does not come up with a city of that name in Mississippi; however, the city of Tougaloo was found. |
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