Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This two-story gable ell house has a low-pitched intersecting gable roof and asbestos shingles siding. The windows are mostly single-pane double-hung sashes. The ell porch has been enclosed. Also on the property is a barn.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
THis house and agricultural outbuildings were owned by August Bruss between 1845c and 1862, then Friedrick Bruss between 1864 and 1879. August Bruss was the son of Martin Bruss, who with his family immigrated to western Mequon from northern Germany for religious freedom. They settle with other German immigrants who were known as the Friestadt settlement. August Bruss was born in Pomerania, northern Germany, in 1821 or 1822. He perchase this land in 1843 and married Caroline Wendt in 1844. Unfortunately, all their children died at a young age and another relative, Friedrick Bruss, owned the Farm later in the nineteeth century. [a,b,f,p.58.] |
Bibliographic References: | [a] Plat Maps for the city of Mequon, 1867-1980, on file at the Mequon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin, or the Archives at the State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
[b] Tax Rolls for the city of Mequon, 1857-1930, on file at the library, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[c] Field observation based on architectural and historical information.
[d] Information from the owner of the property.
[e] Information from the building's datestone or inscription.
[f] Freistadt Historical Society, Freistadt and the Lutheram Immigration, Mequom: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1989.
[g] L. Rehm, Mequon History, on file at the Mequon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[h] C.W. Butterfield, History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Chicago: Western Publishing Company, 1880.
[i] Information from the Mequon Landmarks Commission, Mequon, Wisconsin. |