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HEAVY STONE LINTELS. SEGMENTAL ARCH PAIRED WINDOWS. LEADED RIBBON WINDOWS IN PORCHES.
Resurveyed 2009. Appearance unchanged.
2009- "This house was constructed in 1912 for Louis Ziegler, Sr., who owned a local brewery (no longer extant.) The house is two stories and has a broad hipped roof with two gabled dormers. A glazed front porch is present along the front of the house, and terminates in a bay to the left of the entry. Windows have decorative upper muntins and are ganged in twos, threes, and fours throughout the house. The house is clad in brick with concrete and stone lintels and sills, while the dormers are clad in stucco. A wooden frieze board caps the walls and provides a visual base for the clay-tiled roof."
-"Madison St, Rowell St to Curie St ", WisDOT 6080-00-01, Prepared by Justin Miller and Jennifer R. Harvey (2009).
2023:The house was constructed and owned by the Ziegler family, which operated the longest running brewery (AHI #15089, nonextant) in the city from 1905 until 1953.
In 1912, Louis Ziegler demolished a section of the original Beaver Dam Brewery that included the kiln, a shed, malt mill, living quarters, and storage areas. The following year, he employed Hutter Construction Company to build a brick home on the vacant lot. The Ziegler House’s footprint consists of two rectangular sections: the house and semi-attached garage. Both were constructed in 1913. The house is two-and-one-half-stories tall, is constructed of a combination of brick and clay blocks with a brick veneer, rests on a raised stone foundation, and is topped by a hip roof sheathed in red clay tiles, featuring wide overhanging eaves. The garage is one story tall, is constructed of load-bearing brick walls, rests on a raised stone foundation, and is topped by a flat roof with concrete-capped parapet walls on the north, east, and south elevations. The house has two brick chimneys and the garage has one. All three have limestone caps and feature decorative brickwork.
Behind the house, the lawn is terraced as it slopes towards the shoreline. Landscaping features include mature trees and bushes, concrete and stone walkways, and stone retaining walls. There is a one-and-one-half story, frame cottage near the northwest corner of the lot. It was constructed in 2002 and has vinyl siding and a side-gabled roof. |
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