Property Record
1271 COUNTY HIGHWAY DK
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Pauline Baudhuin Farmstead |
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| Other Name: | |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 25664 |
| Location (Address): | 1271 COUNTY HIGHWAY DK |
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| County: | Door |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Union |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 26 |
| Range: | 23 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 12 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1880 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1994 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Side Gabled |
| Structural System: | Stone |
| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | Jean Joseph Baudhuin |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Namur Belgian-American District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/6/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: |
| 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, State Historic Preservation Office. SEGMENTAL ARCHED WINDOWS. 7 OUTBUILDINGS; 5 CONTRIBUTING. WAYSIDE CHAPEL ON S SIDE OF STH 57. Builder was Destree; he also built the summer kitchen/bake oven. Henry Marin helped dig the basement. The farmstead includes the area’s best surviving example of a stone summer kitchen with attached bake oven. Inside the gable-roofed structure, an oval brick oven sits on a stone platform. On baking days, Pauline would start a fire, letting it burn until a white powder coated the oven walls, indicating that baking temperature had been reached. She would then rake the unburned wood and coals into a cavity below the chimney and use a wooden paddle to insert as many as twenty-four loaves into the oven at a time. These ovens were common in Belgium, where they usually stood apart from the kitchen. Across the highway and slightly west of their house, the Baudhuins built a gable-roofed, wooden wayside chapel, another building type transplanted from the old country. Devout Catholic families erected these small personal chapels, which were also open to travelers along the road. This one of three remaining in the district. The Baudhuin’s side-gabled, limestone house was built in 1880. |
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| Bibliographic References: | THE ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTICS OF RURAL BELGIAN SETTLEMENT IN NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN BY WILLIAM TISHLER AND ERIK BRYNILDSON JULY, 1986. Interview with Baudhuin family. Interview with Lawrence Leroy 7/12/1985. Kahlert. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. Early Door County Buildings and the people who built them 1849-1910, 2nd Edition 1978, Meadow Lane Publishers, Baileys Harbor, WI. Text by John Kahlert and photos by Albert Quinlan. Pages 54-59. Door County Stories, Paul and Frances Burton, Stonehill Publishing, Ephraim, WI, 2nd Printing 2007, pp. 27-28. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |