Property Record
1628 W HIGHLAND RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | E. KIRSCHMANN |
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| Reference Number: | 13490 |
| Location (Address): | 1628 W HIGHLAND RD |
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| County: | Ozaukee |
| City: | Mequon |
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| Year Built: | 1884 |
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| Survey Date: | 1990 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Cross Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Cream Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION This two-story gable ell house has a steeply-pitched intersection gable roof, a cream brick exterior, and a fieldstone foundation. Windows are single-pane, double-hung sashes decorated with segmental brick arches, keystones, and shutters. A small wing extends off the rear of the house, The ell porch has a hip roof and plain wooden post. Also on the property os a gable roofed barn with board siding, large sliding doors, small window openings, and a fieldstone foundation. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND This house and agricultural outbuildings were owned by E. Kirschmann in 1884 and by Fred Kirschmann between 1892 and 1915. [a,e] ROUND ARCH UPPER AND SEGMENTAL ARCH LOWER LINTELS W/ KEYSTONE STONE SILLS* [Date Cnst:(STONE PLAQUE)] May 2002-This former farmstead consists of a house and three outbuildings. The two-story, gabled ell house is constructed of brick and features an asphalt-shingled roof encircled by a wooden cornice and open eaves. The southeast ell juncture exhibits an open, replacement, hip roof porch supported by four square posts and adorned with a spindlework frieze. The south gabled wing carries a stone inset inscribed with "1884 KIRSCHMAN." A clapboard-sided, hip roof addition projects from the rear (north) façade. Fenestration is regularly spaced and consists primarily of one over one, double hung sashes underlined with stone sills. The windows on the first level exist within segmentally arched openings formed with brick and a projecting keystone. The upper level carries round-arched openings also formed with projecting brick and a keystone. The outbuildings consist of a log barn (with a brick foundation) that was moved onto the property in the 1990s; a side gabled, vertical board shed/garage and a circa 1880s basement barn covered with sheet metal and resting upon a stone foundation. An 1873 plat map shows the owner of the sixty-acre farm at this location as E. Kirschman. According to the datestone, the farmhouse was built in 1884. By 1892, F. Kirschman had taken over the property and that tenure continued until at least 1915. By 1921, the tract had been passed onto Henry Kirschman, who held it at least into the late 1940s. By 1969, the property had been reduced to a three acre parcel. No information was found on the Kirschman family. |
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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. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |