Property Record
S1018 Knapp Valley Road
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Willow Grove Stock and Grain Farm - house |
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| Other Name: | Peter Hanson Farmstead - house |
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| Reference Number: | 246177 |
| Location (Address): | S1018 Knapp Valley Road |
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| County: | Vernon |
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| Township/Village: | Clinton |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 14 |
| Range: | 3 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 17 |
| Quarter Section: | NW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NW |
| Year Built: | 1896 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2023 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Gabled Ell |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Board and Batten |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2023: The Peter Hanson Farmstead, also known as the Willow Grove Stock and Grain Farm, was constructed along Knapp Valley Road in Section 17, Town of Clinton, Vernon County. Plat maps, atlases, and U.S. Census records indicate the 160-acre parcel was in the ownership of Peter Hanson and/or his descendants from at least 1878 to 1930. Initially, the residence was constructed east of Knapp Creek, but by 1896, it was constructed or reconstructed further northwest in the present location west of Knapp Creek. As it stands, the farmstead consists of a historic age log house (246176), gabled ell house (246177), threshing barn (229961), tobacco barn (246178), agricultural outbuilding (246179), and corn crib (246180) as well as a non-historic age machine shed. Of these, the threshing barn was surveyed in 2015 at which time it was evaluated as potentially eligible. Two smaller barns or outbuildings, formerly west of Knapp Valley Road, were demolished after 1957. The Peter Hanson house is a two-story, gabled ell type single-family residence constructed circa 1896. The original L-shaped footprint has been modified with an attached garage and the original massing obscured by a one-story open-air porch that wraps the north and west elevations. The north-south oriented volume features two gabled dormers which also be alterations to the original roof form. The original cladding has been covered or replaced with board and batten; the original composition and fenestration pattern have been severely altered with window types that are dissimilar in size, configuration, glazing, and material. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Map of Vernon County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: Bogk and Rowland, Wisconsin Farm and Timber Lands, 1878. Plat Book of Vernon County, Wisconsin. Minneapolis, MN: C.M. Foote & Co., 1896. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |