Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This one and one-half story gable ell house has clapboard siding, a low-pitched gable roof, and a full front porch with a decorative frieze, brackets, and thin Italianate style post. Window openings are mostly two-over-two double-hung sashestopped with cornice lintels. Upper level opening have two panes and are decorated with cornice lintels. Also on the property are fieldstone-constructed shed, frame chicken coop and shed, and an early twentieth century concrete silo.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and agriculture outbuilding were owned by Henry Laun between 1857 and 1864. Between 1867 and 1915 August, and then Bernhard Blaubach the farm. [a,b]
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
It is of particular interest that this farm was owned by German families during the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries.
2022 - Silo resurveyed by HRL. Little apparent change. Isolated. All other farm-related structures demolished. Update photo. |
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. |