Property Record
W425 MILLER RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Carl and Clara Bucholtz House - Animal Barn Complex |
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| Other Name: | Park Lawn Farm (Park Lawn Heights) |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 234435 |
| Location (Address): | W425 MILLER RD |
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| County: | Walworth |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | East Troy |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 4 |
| Range: | 18 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 36 |
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| Year Built: | 1860 |
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| Additions: | C. 1901 |
| Survey Date: | 2018 |
| Historic Use: | barn |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Board |
| Architect: | |
| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Carl and Clara Bucholtz House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/9/2018 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 8/17/2018 |
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| Additional Information: | The animal barn complex is an L-shaped basement barn that consists of a dairy barn and a horse barn that are joined at the corners by a concrete-block milk house. The dairy barn portion of the complex was constructed in about 1860 (likely as a threshing barn) with the raised foundation added in 1901. The horse barn portion of the complex was constructed in 1901 at the same time as the foundation was added to the dairy barn. Both barns are rectangular in plan with vertical board walls, coursed and rubble-work stone foundations, and asphalt-shingled gable roofs. The dairy barn has 2-pane sliding windows located at regular intervals at the top edge of the raised foundation wall; a sliding barn door is located at the center of the north wall, above the foundation wall. The seam between the foundation and frame levels of the dairy barn is clad in corrugated metal panels. A poured concrete silo (added c.1915) is located just off of the dairy barn’s west elevation and is connected to the building at its foundation. A shed-roofed, concrete block milk house (added in 1956) is located along the dairy barn’s east elevation and spans the width of the horse barn’s north elevation. The milk house contains two pairs of 6-pane windows in its northern wall and a single door and 6-pane window in its eastern wall. The east elevation of the horse barn contains a combination of newer and original sliding windows at the top of the foundation wall with vehicular/animal doorways in the east and west elevations. One of these doorways contains a modern, overhead garage door while the others contain sliding barn doors of board construction. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |