Property Record
12146 N FARMDALE RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | PAUL RADUE |
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| Reference Number: | 71529 |
| Location (Address): | 12146 N FARMDALE RD |
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| County: | Ozaukee |
| City: | Mequon |
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| Year Built: | 1877 |
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| Survey Date: | 1990 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Cross Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Asphalt |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION This house is a two-story gabled ell with a steeply-pitched intersecting gable roof. It si covered with abestos shingles and sits on a stone foundation. There are decorative shingles in the gable peaks. Windows are mostly single-pane double-hung sashes and some wre being installed in 1990. The ell porch is enclosed with single-pane double-hung sashes. Also on the property are several gable-roofed sheds and a barn with a gable roof, board siding and a fieldstone foundation. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND This property was owned by August Radue between the he claimed 160 acres on the Farmdale Road in 1839 until 1873. [b, f p.42] Paul radue then owned the property between 1876 until 1915.[a,b] The buildings date from both August and Paul radue's tentureon this farm. August Radue was part of the Freistadt settlement tht came from Northern Germany to the United States for religious freedom. August Radue and his family came to Mequon in 1839, one of the earliest Freistadt settlers were Lutherans who were being persecuted by German authorities because they refused to adher to the State church at thath time. |
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| 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. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |