| Additional Information: | 2022 - Resurveyed by HRL: Situated on the south side of, and setback by 19 feet from, Mequon Road, this is a two-story, cross gable, clapboard sheathed farmhouse notable for its nominal frieze and regular use of corner boards. It was constructed on a north/south axis and is perpendicular to the highway. The house has a heavy growth of trees and other foliage that obscure significantly its north and east sides.
The primary entryway is set in the northeast ell, the entrance itself being in the north wall of the projecting east wing. It is sheltered by a hipped roof supported by a squared, corner column and embellished with a spindled frieze and brackets on its north and east sides. Additionally does a spindled railing extend from the corner column to the house. The outer door has four, inset horizontal panels, above which is a window with six lights arranged in two rows of three. To the right of the entryway is the house’s, gabled, north endwall which is notable for its centered first and second floor window units, the lower part of each unit being sheathed with scalloped shingles above which is a three-light window consisting of two, vertical, side-by-side lights crowned with a horizontal pane above. Above the second floor window is a pent roof, above which is a gable with a centered, one-over-one-light, double-hung window surrounded by scalloped shingles.
The northeast and northwest corners on the projecting cross gable wings is canted, each canted plane containing a first and second floor window. The wings themselves have first and second floor windows in their gabled endwalls as well, above which is a pent roof with scalloped shingles and a double-hung window in the gable peak – very similar to the north endwall. Located in the house’s southwest ell is another entrance sheltered by a truncated, hipped roof supported by two, squared columns and embellished with spindled friezes and brackets. This porch shelters two doors, one permitting access to the projecting west wing and the other to the west sidewall of the south wing. First and second floor windows, a pent roof and what look to be scalloped shingles are found on the structure’s south endwall.
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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] Taxs 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 Lutheram Immigration, Mequom: 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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