Property Record
7955 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Joseph Stamm Barn |
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| Other Name: | Emil Muzatko Barn |
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| Reference Number: | 5013 |
| Location (Address): | 7955 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Roxbury |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 9 |
| Range: | 7 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 13 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1902 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1979 |
| Historic Use: | barn |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' 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, State Historic Preservation Office. In 1902 Joseph Stamm built this bank-barn to stable his horses. Most barns in this area were built of wood, but Stamm erected a sturdier stone barn that would last longer. Stout timbers joined by wooden pegs frame the two-story building, and locally quarried fieldstones laid with generous amounts of mortar form the walls. On the west side, narrow doors surmounted by segmental-arched lintels opened from the stalls. Most of these doorways have been filled in, but their outlines remain. Above the stalls is a door into the hay mow. Slits in the wall helped ventilate the loft and keep moist hay from combusting spontaneously; the arched window in the north gable end provided additional air circulation. At this north window we can see the pride Stamm took in his barn, for he ornamented it with a decorative wooden arch with a stylized keystone and impost blocks. On door at the northwest corner, a stone block has been carved with the image of a horse. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |