| 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.
1995- "Rusticated concrete block, vernacular, ca. 1910, two-story cheese factory or creamery, gabled roof with standing seam metal roofing, concrete sills and large concrete lintels on two-over-two doublehung windows. Concrete parging over basement story to a height just above sills of first floor windows. Passage door has shed roofed hood on two long brackets, probably a later addition. On north end is a hipped-roofed frame addition with stamped metal siding that resembles rusticated concrete block. On the first floor of the addition is a one-stall garage and on the second floor is a sleeping porch enclosed with double-hung windows.
In the early twentieth century Platteville directories, there are three cheese factories listed in the rural area around Platteville. Which of those was this factory is not possible to ascertain from the directories, since the only address listed is the rural route number. The farm on which this building is located was owned from before 1895 to after 1985 by the Wiegel family. The farm was called the Evergreen Grove Farm in 1895, but there is no historical information about the family in the Grant county histories.
Of course, there were many cheese factories in rural Grant County in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually cooperatively run by neighboring farmers, with a resident cheese maker employed by the farmers. However, no cheese factories are listed for Grant County in the Wisconsin Inventory of Historic Places. This building is more intact than many rural cheese factories, although, like the majority of them, this one appears to have been converted into a residence."
-"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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