| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. GUNDRY WAS A LOCAL MERCHAN
ACCORDING TO THE INTENSIVE SURVEY REPORT, THIS TWO-STORY, ITALIANATE HOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1868. (SEE BIB. REF. A, B). IT FEATURES A RECTANGULAR SHAPED PLAN CONFIGURATION, A STONE FOUNDATION, A LIMESTONE EXTERIOR, A WOOD AND STONE TRIM, AND AN ASPHALT AND TIN HIP ROOF. CROWNING THE ROOF TOP IS A LARGE CUPOLA, WITH BRACKETS SUPPORTING ITS WIDE, OVERHANING EAVES. THE DENTIL-TRIMMED CORNICE BENEATH THE MAIN ROOF IS DETAILED SIMILARLY TO THE CUPOLA IN THAT IT ALSO CONTAINS LARGE BRACKETS WHICH CONTINUE ALL AROUND THE BUILDING ALONG THE EAVE LINE. SEGMENTALLY ARCHED OPENINGS DISTINGUISH THE WINDOWS THROUGHOUT THE STURUCTURE. THE FRONT ENTRANCE, ALSO SEGMENTALLY ARCHED, HAS FANLIGHTS AND SIDELIGHTS SURROUNDING IT. PROJECTING FORWARD ON THE FACADE IS A NEARLY FULL LENGTH FRONT PORCH; ITS FLAT ROOF AND MASSIVE, DENTIL-TRIMMED CORNICE IS SUPPORTED BY FLUTED CORINTHIAN COLUMNS. A PEDIMENT RESTS ON TOP OF AN EVEN FURTHER PROTRUDING CORNICE AND MARKS THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THIS PORCH. AN ADDITION WAS BUILT AT THE REAR. ACCORDING TO THE INVENTORY CARD WHICH DESCRIBES THIS PROPERTY, A PORCH ADDITION WAS MADE IN 1912. THIS RESIDENCE IS IN GOOD CONDITION.
DESCRIPTION
This house on this property is a two-story Queen Anne with steeply-pitched intersecting gables. THe house is clad with aluminum siding, but the wood shingles in the gables have not been covered over. There is a frieze that runs under the roof eaves and extends into th e returned eaves of the gables. Wondows are single-light double-hung sashes that have been covered with aluminum storm/screen windows. The barn is a bank barn constructed on a fieldstone foundation. It is covered with board siding and has a gambrel roof. |
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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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