Property Record
3655 S WOELFEL RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Mathew and Margaret Follman House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 8341 |
| Location (Address): | 3655 S WOELFEL RD |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | New Berlin |
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| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Survey Date: | 19792019 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | WOOD SHINGLES IN GABLES. BAND OF SHINGLES IN BETWEEN FLRS. SPINDLED PORCH. 2019 City of New Berlin survey recommendation write-up: Rising from a fieldstone foundation, this Queen Anne-style farmhouse is sheathed with clapboard siding and topped with a wooden-shingled roof. Cutaway corners with carved wooden brackets define both stories of the front-facing gabled wing, while a variety of patterns of decorative shinglework runs between the first and second floors, as well as covers all gabled peaks. Windows throughout the house are regularly placed and consist mostly of one-over-one-light sash. An open porch with turned supports as well as a spindled frieze is located at both the front and rear of the home’s north elevation. Also located on the parcel is a gambrel-roof basement barn on a fieldstone foundation, as well as a number of other frame-constructed outbuildings. Mathew Follman(n) purchased the subject parcel from Nicholas Imig in April 1893. Information previously provided by Harold Koeffler, who was born in the subject house, states that the house was built for Follman by his carpenter father George Koeffler, along with Edward Hause (his hired hand), in 1900. As of the 1900 census, Follman (b. 1871) was a farmer and his household included his wife Maggie (Margaret) and daughter Maggie. The 1905 state census would seem to indicate that the Follmans still remained on the farm at that time (note that the Koefflers were enumerated directly following the Follmans). However, by no later than 1910, Follman took over operations of Calhoun Hall and moved his family to the hamlet of Calhoun (S. Calhoun Road & the North Western Railroad tracks). Following their relocation, George Koeffler and his family moved into the Follman home, where Harold Koeffler was born in 1911. Also reportedly in residence at the house for a brief period was George Koeffler’s hired hand, Edward Hause. In March 1913, the property was purchased by David and Maria (nee Conrad) Nicolaus who moved to New Berlin from Mukwonago. The Nicolaus family farmed/owned the land into at least 1990, at which time it was owned by son Roy Nicolaus. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Designated local landmark on 4 November 1996. Historical & Architectural Resources Survey, City of New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin prepared by tes | Historical Consulting, LLC, 2019. Footnotes for the City of New Berlin survey information provided below: “Nicolaus Victorian Farmhouse,” City Landmark Designation, Short history available online at https://www.newberlin.org/540/Nicolas-Victorian-Farmhouse, Accessed August 2019 (note that Nicolas is spelled differently in the web address); Nicholas Imig to Matthew Folman, Warranty Deed, 24 April 1893, 84/30; Mathew and Margaret Folman to D.C. Nicolaus, Warranty Deed, 3 March 1913, 136/176; Death dates (and image of gravestone) for both Mathew and Margaret found on Find A Grave, Available online at https://findagrave.com/memorial/50729948, Accessed July 2019; U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1880-1940, although Follmann is consistently spelled with just one “n” on the deeds, the surname is spelled “Follmann” on the gravestone; Plat maps of New Berlin identify the Nicolaus family as owning the subject parcel through 1990, maps available online at http://newberlinhistoricalsociety.org/articles/38-plat-maps-of-new-berlin, Accessed July-August 2019. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |