Property Record
32501 COUNTY HIGHWAY D / WASHINGTON AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Schrader Family Farmstead (house) |
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| Other Name: | Schrader Family Farmstead |
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| Reference Number: | 164381 |
| Location (Address): | 32501 COUNTY HIGHWAY D / WASHINGTON AVE |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Rochester |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 3 |
| Range: | 19 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 4 |
| Quarter Section: | SE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1922 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 20102020 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Dutch Colonial Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Stucco |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. According to a family history, tax rolls and plat maps, William Dixon White in 1851 purchased the subject (at that time) 82-acre parcel in 1851 for $800. White was born around 1825 in England. A widower, he lived at the property with two of children -- Elizabeth and Albert -- in the late 1800s. Elizabeth was born in 1858 and married William Durant. The Durants had two children -- Henry and Martha. By 1900, White was renting the parcel to Louis and Viola Schrader. Viola was Elizabeth Durant's niece. Upon Mr. White's passing, the Durants inherited the property and then sold the 123-acre farm on 9 March 1908 to the Schraders. Louis Schrader was born in 1875 and Viola was born two years later. The couple had two sons -- Merle and Glenn. Viola Schrader died in 1929 and upon Louis's death in 1945, the farm was divided between the two sons, with Merle buying out Glenn's half for $4,000 since Glenn was living in Alabama pursuing a teaching career. Merle Schrader was born in 1897 or 1898 his wife Florence was born in 1900. The couple had two sons, Wayne (1927) and Laurel (1930). In 1940, the farm's main dairy barn burned down and it was replaced by the subject dairy barn later that year. Reinhold Schrader, a carpenter and brother to Louis Schrader designed and directed the construction of the new barn. The Schraders added several other outbuildings to the farmstead between 1940 and 1980, to include a wooden corn crib many of whose boards were milled from the farm's timber parcel. During the period, the family concentrated on raising crops and milking Holstein cattle. Florence passed away in 1981 and Merle would follow ten years later. Both Wayne and Laurel operated the farm together as the #28;Schrader Brothers Farm.#29; Wayne and his wife Joyce married in 1951 and would live on a trailer home on the property until building a house of their own on an adjacent parcel, where they still reside. Laurel currently maintains the subject farmhouse. The two brothers retired from farming in 1991 and rent out the farmland. In 2004, the Schraders received recognition at the Wisconsin State Fair as a Sesquicentennial Farm. 2020 - appearance unchanged |
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| Bibliographic References: | Family History, Plats, Tax Rolls, Owner Interview. DOE completed 09/2010 by Heritage Research. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |