Property Record
INDIAN CREEK ROAD, SE SIDE, .75 MILE W OF US HIGHWAY 61
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MARING, FREDERICK & BARBARY |
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| Reference Number: | 43572 |
| Location (Address): | INDIAN CREEK ROAD, SE SIDE, .75 MILE W OF US HIGHWAY 61 |
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| County: | Grant |
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| Township/Village: | Paris |
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| Town: | 2 |
| Range: | 2 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 21 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1860 |
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| Survey Date: | 1995 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | Stone |
| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 1995- "Stone, vernacular, ca. 1860, one-and-one-half-story front-gabled farmhouse, set into the bank of a hill with the basement exposed on the front and a basement level entrance. A side wing is of frame construction with a porch across the front. The relatively small windows have two-over-two sash. Several small barns are in poor condition. This small house was the home of the very large Maring family. Frederick Maring was born in Bavaria in 1807. He came to the United States in 1841 and lived for one year in Pennsylvania where he married his wife, Barbary, who also came from Bavaria. In 1842 the Marings moved to Galena. one year later, they moved to Hazel Green, where they farmed for several years. Around the year 1853 Maring turned his attention to mining, which he pursued for about three years before moving to this farm in 1856. The Marings had ten children. In the 1860 census, their farm was of moderate value and produced an average amount of the usual farm crops, including wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, hay and butter. In 1870 the Maring farm was one of the less prosperous in the town. By 1895 the farm was known as the "Springdale stock and Dairy Farm" and was run by a son, Frederick, who raised Durham cattle. By that time, the farm had grown to 164.5 acres. The farm remained in the Maring family until after 1948. This house was listed on the Wisconsin Inventory of Historic Places in 1976. It is the only stone house identified in the Town of Paris, which has few substantial houses remaining, no doubt due to its poor soils and steeply sloped terrain. The Maring house is one of nineteen stone farmhouses identified in the 1976 survey of Grant County (a twentieth -- the Jacob Hooser house -- was missed in that survey). The Maring house is unusual in that it is strictly vernacular in styling -- there are no Greek Revival or Italianate details and not even any classical symmetricality or proportions. Many of the stone houses remaining in rural Grant County are small, like the Maring house, but most have more classical proportions and symmetry. There is only one other early stone house in the county that is non-classical in style -- a side-gabled stone house with a high basement in the Town of Glen Haven (0406'-15). The Maring house is as intact as this other vernacular house and is a good example of the use of Germanic farmhouse design transplanted to American soil." -"USH 151, Dickeyville to Belmont", WisDOT# 1209-02-00, Prepared by Katherine Hundt Rankin (Preservation Consultant) for Rust Environment & Infrastructure Inc, 1995. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |