Additional Information: | House threatened with demolition 9/1997. Outbuildings to be demolished in 2007.
2007- "The Henry Laun Farmhouse has been demolished, but three outbuildings survive. A small, gabled, frame chicken coop with board siding appears to date from c. 1900. A small, c. 1855 fieldstone shed with a gable roof stands nearby. A c. 1915 silo of poured concrete completes the grouping. It is likely that all three will soon be demolished, as the parcel seems to be under development."
-"Wauwatosa Rd, Mequo Rd-Pioneer Rd," WisDOT #2040-00-00, Prepared by Elizabeth L. Miller. (2007).
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 sashes topped 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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
No longer extant (2014 & 2022) -- Heritage Research. |
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.
Cedarburg News Graphic 10/21/1988. |