| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This is a one and one-half story buick bungalow house with a sloping side gableroof and a projecting gable roof doemer covered with clapboards and decorated with plain bargeboard. Windows are largely single-pane double-hung sashes, some of which are group in twos and threes. The gable roof slopes to form the porch roof that is supported by square woods posts and brick piers. There is a brick balustrade. Also on the property are sone sheds and a gambrel-roofed barn with board siding, large sliding doors, small windows openings, and a stone foundation.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and agricultural outbuildings were owned by Edward Radue between around 1921 and 1931. [a,b] |
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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. |
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