| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This two-story rambling gabled ell house has several steeply-pitched intersecting gables roofs, clapboard siding, and both a fieldstone and concrete block foundation. The roof is covered with wood shingles. The two porches on the front facade have shed roofs, turned post, delicated brackets, and spool and spindle balustrades. Also on the property is a gable-roofed barn with board siding, a feildstone foundation, numerious six-over-six light double-hung sashes, and large sliding doors. An ell off this barn is open to the front.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and agricultural outbuildings were owned by P. Burke in 1873, W. Groth between 1892 and 1915, and Lawrence Lennartz 1915. [a,d] |
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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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