| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This one and one-half story gabled ell house has a very low-pitched gable roof, clapboard siding, and a naroow frieze under the eaves. Windows are six-over-one light double hung sashes decorated with cornice lintels and shutters. The main entrance has a modern gable-roofed overhang. An ell porch with turned post and decorative scroll brackets is on the front facade of the house. Also on the property is a small gambrel roofed barn with board siding, smalll window openings, and a fieldstone foundation. There are a number of small agricultural sheds on the property.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and agricultural outbuildings were owned by J. B. Selby between 1857 and 1864, and John Bublitz between 1873 and 1901. [b] |
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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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