| Additional Information: | Victorian style two story residence with rubble foundation, cream brick exterior and segmental arch windows. (Barn built around same time as house and a garage built in 1995.)
Nicholas Reisenweber and his sons built the house. The following excerpt was taken from "The History of Fond Du Lac County" (1880):
"Nicholas Reisenweber, Farmer, Secs. 5 and 8; PO Ashford; Born in Saxe Coburg in 1819; was educated in the Fatherland, and with his wife came to America in 1850, they settling on a small farm near Germantown, Wis; after 10 years he sold out and settled on forty acres on Sec 10 in Ashford; in 1867, he bought his present farm of 140 acres, this about half cleared and on it a log house and roofless log barn; Mr. Reisenweber and his sons did good work, cleared the land of stumps, etc., built a granary and barns, and an elegant farmhouse in 1876; this is a good showing for a man who began $68 in debt on a twenty-acre farm, besides not knowing a word of English. Mr. and Mrs. Reisenweber have had eight children – William, Lizzie, wife of J. Jaeger or Byron; Caroline, wife of W. Specht, of Santa Clara Cal; Kate, Frederick, Jacob (deceased), Louis and John. The family are Lutherans; father and sons are Independent Republicans, voting for men, not party."
On older plat maps, it appears as the Vineyard Farm. County directories say that the Reisenwebers were breeders of graded Devonshire Cattle and Shropshire Sheep. |
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