Loewe-Weis-Wilson Farm Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
For Immediate Release (April 4, 2024)
PALMYRA, Wis. - The Wisconsin Historical Society announces the listing of the Loewe-Weis-Wilson Farm in the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 2024. The farm is located on the eastern edge of Palmyra across from Spring Lake.
With its house, dairy barn, silo, outbuildings, well and cistern, the Loewe-Weis-Wilson Farm is an intact example of a Wisconsin dairy farm as seen in the twentieth century. Victor and Antoinette Loewe purchased the land in 1870 and soon tapped into the springs that helped launch Palmyra as a mineral springs summer resort. Though he bottled and shipped water to Milwaukee and Chicago, Victor Loewe focused his attention on raising Jersey dairy cattle and growing grapes for winemaking.
William Weis purchased the farm in 1895 and enlarged the Italianate house with a Queen Anne addition. He continued dairy farming and constructed most of the outbuildings on the property around 1910. Woodrow T. and Gertrude Wilson bought the farm in 1950 and began building a Holstein herd. Wilson developed his own breed, recognized by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America and known by the prefix W-T-W. A daughter of the Wilsons continues to live on the farm and has been a wonderful steward in maintaining the historic property.
Additional information for the Loewe-Weis-Wilson Farm is available at:
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Property/HI243715
To learn more about the State and National Register programs in Wisconsin, visit: https://wisconsinhistory.org/hp/register/
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