| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This tow-story cross gable Queen Anne House has a steeply-pitched intersecting gable roof, clapboard siding, and a square additon off of one of the ells. Windows are single or two-over-two bay on the front facade. It is decorated with brackets. The porches on the front facade have hip roofs, cut-out friezes, thin square post, and delicate brackets.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house was owned by Martin Kressin between 1886 and 1892 and by Ferdinand Kressin between 1915 and 1931. |
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| Bibliographic References: | [a] Plat Maps for the city of Mequon, 1867-1980, on file at the Mequon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin, or the Archives at the State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
[b] Tax Rolls for the city of Mequon, 1857-1930, on file at the library, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[c] Field observation based on architectural and historical information.
[d] Information from the owner of the property.
[e] Information from the building's datestone or inscription.
[f] Freistadt Historical Society, Freistadt and the Lutheran Immigration, Mequon: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1989.
[g] L. Rehm, Mequon History, on file at the Mequon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[h] C.W. Butterfield, History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Chicago: Western Publishing Company, 1880.
[i] Information from the Mequon Landmarks Commission, Mequon, Wisconsin. |
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