| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This two and one-half story Queen Anne house has a steeply-pitched intersecting gable roof, clapboard siding, wood trim, and wood shingles in the gables. A cornice runs under the eaves of the house and defines the upper half-story pediments. Some windows are largely single-pane double-hung sashes. Some windows are larger single plnes with transomes. also on the property is a gambrel-roofed barn. It features board siding, several window openings, and a fieldstone foundation.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and agricultural outbuildings were owned by G. Hilgendorf between 1892 and 1931. [a]
(2014): An 1873 plat map cites Mathias Thielen as the owner. Thielen was born in about 1815 in Prussia. By 1892, the farmstead was in possession of Gustave and Anna Hilgendorf. Gustave was born in 1863 in Wisconsin to Gottlieb & Ernestine Hilgendorf – Gottlieb was an original member of the Freistadt Settlement. Gustave remained on this parcel until his death in 1936. By 1939, the parcel had been sold to Milton Krumnus (plats, census). Vinyl siding added.
2022 - House resurveyed by HRL. Little apparent change. Update photo. |
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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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