| Additional Information: | 01/2021: The property includes a ca. 1970 Colonial Revival-style dwelling (a) and a ca. 1890 front-gabled former schoolhouse (b). The main dwelling (a) features a side-gabled standing-seam metal roof, wood clapboard siding, vinyl windows, an exterior stone chimney, and a gabled side wing and attached single-car garage clad in wood shingles.
The former schoolhouse is of Folk Victorian design (b) and features a steeply-pitched replacement standing-seam metal roof, decorative vergeboards at the gable end, wood clapboard siding, original 4/1 wood windows, a full-width hipped-roof front porch with wood supports and a jigsawn railing, a stone foundation, and a small shed-roof side addition that is not of historic-age. A wooden plaque at the gable end indicates “Kemper 1890.”
According to the 1868, 1877, 1895, 1914, and 1918 Grant County Plat Maps, a resource is identified in the location of the former schoolhouse (b) and noted as School House No. 7 (Gray 1868; Warner & Foote 1877; C.M. Foote and Co. 1895; Kenyon Company 1914; Geo. A. Ogle & Company 1918). The property was owned by P. Clayton according to the 1868 and 1877 Plat Maps; the schoolhouse (b) was identified as P. Clayton SH (1868) and Clayton School N. 07 (1877) (Gray 1868; Warner & Foote 1877). The schoolhouse (b) is depicted on the 1895 Plat Map as “School No. 7” (C.M. Foote and Co. 1895). L.H. Kemper owned the property in 1895 according to the 1895 Plat Map (C.M. Foote and Co. 1895). The schoolhouse (b) is visible in its current location according to 1955 aerial imagery and the 1900 Lancaster quadrangle map (NETR 2020; USGS 1900). The schoolhouse (b) is included as a school in the 1976 Dubuque quadrangle map (USGS 1976). No additional information was discovered about the community the schoolhouse (b) served. The dwelling (a) is on site by 1982 according to historic aerial imagery (NETR 2020). |
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| Bibliographic References: | C.M. Foote and Co.
1895 Plat Book of Grant County Wisconsin. Electronic document, http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/8424/Grant+County+1895/, accessed January 13, 2021.
Grant County GIS Services
2020 Grant County Parcel Viewer. https://gis.co.grant.wi.gov/Parcel_Explorer/, accessed October 6, 2020.
Geo. A. Ogle and Co.
1918 Standard Atlas of Grant County Wisconsin. Electronic document, http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/29123/Title+Page/Grant+County+1918/Wisconsin/, accessed January 13, 2021.
Kenyon Company
1914 Map of Grant County, Wisconsin. Electronic document, https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/24992/rec/2, accessed January 14, 2021.
Nationwide Environmental Title Research (NETR)
2020 Historic Aerials Viewer. Electronic document, https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer, accessed
October 6, 2020.
U. S. Geological Survey (USGS)
1900 Lancaster 1: 250, 000 Topographic Quadrangle Map. Reston, VA
1962 Lancaster 1: 24, 000 Topographic Quadrangle Map. Reston, VA
1976 Dubuque 1: 250, 000 Topographic Quadrangle Map. Reston, VA
Warner & Foote
1877 Atlas of Grant County Wisconsin. Electronic document, http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/16821/Grant+County+1877/, accessed January 13, 2021.
Wilson Gray
1868 New Map of Grant County. Electronic document, https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM94556, accessed January 14, 2021.
Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS)
1986 Cultural Resource Management in Wisconsin: A Manual for Historic Properties, Volumes 1-3. Historic
Preservation Division. State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Copy provided by the Wisconsin Historical
Society. |
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