| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This two-story gable ell house is constructed of stone. It has low-pitched intersecting gable roof covered with wood shingles. Windows are either single-light or multiple-light double-hung sashes with wodden lintels and sills. There is a lunette window in the main gable peak. Also on the property or animal shed that has been converted into a garage.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house was built for the family of Johann (John) F. Klug. Klug came to Mequon from northern Germany in 1839 as part of the Freistadt settlement. The Freistadt families were Lutherans who came to this country for religious freedom. Johann Klug purchased the land which this house sits in 1839. He died in 1851 and his wife Wilhelmine, married Friedrich Prahl. Tax Rolls indicate that Friedrich Prahl owned this property between 1857 and 1869. In 1870, Johann and Wilhelmine Klug's son, Nathanel owned the property and held into it until at least 1887. [b, f, p. 39] |
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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] Taxs 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 Lutheram Immigration, Mequom: 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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