Additional Information: | 2012: replacement siding and windows
DESCRIPTION
This house is a two-story gambrel roofed cross gable building. The house has aluminum siding and had wood shingles in the gables. The windows are primarily single light double-hung sashes. The front porch has a flat roof, a pediment, brick piers, wooden post, and a simple balustrade. Also on the property is a large gambrel roofed covered barn with board and batten siding, large sliding doors, small window openings, a fieldstone foundation, and a steeply pitched gable roofed dormer. A concrete silo sits at one end of the barn. |
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. |