Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This two-story cross gable house has steeply-pitched intersecting gable roof, clapboard siding, and decorative wood shingles in gable peaks. The gables have returned eaves and there is a wooden cornice and frieze that runs under the roof eaves. Windows are nostly nine-over-nine light double-hing sashes, probably of recent vintage. A square, shed-roofed bay projects from the from the one side of the house. The front and rear porches features shed roofs, turn posts, a spool and sundial frieze and balustrade and a wooden floor. Also on the property is a small hay barn or machine shed and a garage and small sheds.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and it agricultural outbuildings were owned by Grorge Kopp Jr. between 1892 and 1931. [a] |
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 Lutheran Immigration, Mequon: 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. |