| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This one and one-half story bungalow is constructed of brown brick and has a jerkinhead roof. A shed-roof dormer projects from the front of the house and is covered with clapboards. Windows are single light over single light, single-light double sashes, or sashes that have a vertically divided upper light over a single light. A small addition is at the rear of the house and part of the original entry to the porch is enclosed as living space. Also on the property is a fine gambrel roofed barn with board siding, a stone foundation, and small window openings. Two concrete silos and several large metal grain storage structures sit close to the barn. There is also a gable-roofed barn with board siding and a long, low gambrel roofed animal barn or machine shed with board siding and wood decorations.
ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE
The large gambrel-roofed barn is one of the best preserved and best examples of this type of agricultural building in the city. All of the buildings and sturctures are well maintained.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house was owned by Chris Hilgendorf between 1926 and 1973. The agricultural outbuilding were owned by J.J. Hilgendorf between 1916 and 1925. [b] The land on which there bulidings has been in the Hilgendorf family since they arrive with the Freistadt Lutheran settlers from Germany in 1842. (see 11401 Mequon Rd.)
See AHI 73135 for barn.
2022 - House and farm resurveyed by HRL. Little apparent change. House/farm determined NOT ELIGIBLE in 2015. 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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