| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This two and one-half story cross gable building with steeply pitched gables, clapboard siding, and wood trim. Windows os the house are generally single-pane double-hung sashes trimmed with narrow cornice lintels. First floor facade windows are generally large double-light windows. A front porch spands almost the entire front facade. It has a low-pitched hip roof, pediment, marking the entrance, a denticulated frieze, and short ionic columns sitting on rock-face concrete piers. The floor of the porch is missing as of the spring of 1990. Also on the property is a small gambrel roofed barn with board siding, a row of boards in th emiddle of the side walls that have sawteeth ends. A concrete silo sits at one end of the barn.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house was owned by William Flieth between 1911 and 1914 and by Reinhold Lemke between 1916 and 1924. |
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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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