Property Record
COUNTY HIGHWAY X, NORTH SIDE, .25 MILE EAST OF FIELD DRIVE
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Reference Number: | 55774 |
| Location (Address): | COUNTY HIGHWAY X, NORTH SIDE, .25 MILE EAST OF FIELD DRIVE |
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| County: | Lafayette |
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| Township/Village: | Elk Grove |
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| Town: | 3 |
| Range: | 1 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 22 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1860 |
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| Survey Date: | 1995 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Greek Revival |
| Structural System: | Masonry |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 1995- "Red brick, Greek Revival, ca. 1860, side-gabled farmhouse with frame wing to rear, three-bay facade with center door with sidelights and toplight, two-over-two windows, stone lintels, bracketed cornice,, full pediments on sides of building; simple, 19th century hay barn with stone foundation and vertical board siding. The 1874 plat map shows the owner as A. Hatch, about whom nothing is known. From before 1895 to after 1947 the farm was owned by a German family, the Schroders. In 1895, F. W. Schroder called his enterprise "Hatch and Herron Farms, farming and stock raising" (the Herron family had also lived nearby). No one associated with this farm appears to have been of historic interest. The farmhouse is an excellent example of a Greek Revival farmhouse with Italianate brackets, full pediments, and a main entrance adorned with a toplight and sidelights. The house was probably built by Americans and then sold to Germans, a pattern noted by Gregory as common in this area. The 1977 survey uncovered three other red brick farmhouses in the Town of Elk Grove -- a five-bay side-gabled house that is similar and quite intact, but is of a later vintage evidenced by its verticality, segmentally-arched windows and delicate spindled porch. Most similar is a five-bay, side-gabled house with a large double door in the center front with a transom above. The roof pitch of this other example is steeper, giving a more Victorian appearance but otherwise the house is comparable in integrity and potential significance. The third example is a somewhat later T-plan house with segmentally arched windows and an enclosed porch." -"USH 151, Dickeyville to Belmont", WisDOT# 1209-02-00, Prepared by Katherine Hundt Rankin (Preservation Consultant) for Rust Environment & Infrastructure Inc, 1995. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |