Property Record
9660 US 10
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Krause House |
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| Reference Number: | 133119 |
| Location (Address): | 9660 US 10 |
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| County: | Wood |
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| Township/Village: | Cameron |
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| Town: | 25 |
| Range: | 3 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 31 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1890 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2003 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
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| 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: | July 2003 & 2004-The house, a side gabled brick dwelling with central hall plan, is remarkably intact and exhibits a high degree of architectural merit and integrity. It has a foundation of random coursed fieldstone, a central brick Tudor chimney, keystoned entry, and jack arched windows. The latter have had replacement windows carefully inserted with the original openings. The structure#25;s principal façade features two panels of vitrified brickwork laid in a basketweave pattern and symmetrically placed between each set of windows. The front porch was reconstructed in the early 1990s, but has retained the simple lines and proportions of the original vernacular Queen Anne porch. Statement of Significance: Constructed by Ernest Friederich Krause in c. 1890, the house was part of his on-site brickworks. Krause, an immigrant from Arnawalde, N.M., Germany, moved to the Marshfield area in the late 1880s, before settling on forty acres in Cameron (Marshfield History Project 2000:279). Originally Krause farmed his land, developing one of the best farms in his township. About 1890, the Krause Brickyard was established on the farm, operating for twelve years before the property was sold. During the twelve-year run at Krause Brickyard, Krause estimated his brickworks produced approximately 2,400,000 bricks. The farm was sold in 1903, with the Krause family moving to Missouri for ten years. When the family returned to Marshfield, Ernest Kruase partnered with Louis Hartl to establish the Marshfield Brick and Tile Company. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |