| Additional Information: | 1990 information: DESCRIPTION
This house is a two-story vernacular house has a steeply-pitched gable roof, aluminum siding, and a stone foundation. Windows are single-lighted double-hung sashes. Also on the property are some sheds ans a basement barn with a gable roof, board siding, and a fieldstone foundation. A concrete silo sits at one end of the barn.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and agricultural outbuildings were owned by Friedrick Clasen in 1895 and by Mathilda Clasen between 1898 and 1960.
2023: Update photo taken of the house due to significant foliage in earlier image. No immediately apparent alterations since last surveyed other than the addition of a porch stoop along the front. Update photo taken of basement barn due to the application of metal siding to the walls, as well as the roof and the addition of windows.
This farm was owned by Johan Friedrich Clasen (b. 1835) by no later than 1873. In 1872, he married Mathilda Blaese (b. 1852). Together they had six children. Johann died in February 1895 and Mathilda remained on the farm until her death in 1937. Her youngest son Paul then took over the farm, after which plats indicate that it was owned by Paul's sister, also named Mathilda. It remained in the Clasen family until at least 1958, the year Paul died. |
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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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