| Additional Information: | 2 1/2 ROUND FANLIGHT WINDOWS IN GABLESTILTED BRICK SEGMENTAL ARCH LINTELS OVER WINDOWS AND DOOR STONE QUOINS
2025: This property is comprised of a residence, garage, pole barn/machine shed, chicken coop, corn crib, and Quonset hut. The circa 1878 residence is a two-and-one-half-story, Gabled Ell coursed stone house with lime mortar. It has cut stone quoins and brick segmental arches over window and door openings. It has an asphalt shingle roof. Windows are comprised of 1/1 vinyl simulated divided light sashes, with fanlight windows beneath the gable. A wood paneled door with two arched wood windows is located at the northern corner of the front-gabled portion of the façade. It is set behind a wood screen door with a wood, two-light transom window above. An additional wood paneled door with a large wood window is located at the center of the ell portion of the façade. It is also set behind a wood screen door. Both façade doors open onto the partial width façade porch. A wood porch railing runs along the edge of the porch with spindled balusters and finials. Based on the 1975 and the 2013 surveys of property the porch railing has been added, likely when the garage and rear addition were constructed circa 2017. A one-story, rear gabled addition clad with vertical composite siding connects the residence to the garage.
The circa 2017 garage is a side-gabled frame building with an asphalt shingle roof. It is clad with metal ribbed metal panels along the east elevation and vinyl siding along the north elevation. Two vinyl garage doors are located along the east elevation, with a vinyl door with nine lights and a 1/1 vinyl simulated divided light window located at the southern corner. An additional vinyl door is located at the western corner of the north elevation.
A circa 1940 side-gabled pole barn/machine shed is located north of the residence. It has a standing seam metal roof and is clad with board and batten. Four sliding board and batten doors are located along the south elevation.
A circa 1940 chicken coop is located west of the pole barn/machine shed. It has a saltbox roof with two metal roof ventilators. The east elevation is clad with vertical board and the south elevation is clad with clapboard. A vinyl paneled door is located at the center of the east elevation. Two 1/1 double-hung vinyl windows are located just south of the door. A sliding wood door is located at the center of the south elevation.
A circa 1980 Quonset hut is located southwest of the residence, along the tree line. It is built of metal panels and the north elevation is clad with vertical board. A metal door is located at the center of the north elevation and is flanked by six-light awning windows.
A circa 2000 metal wire corn crib is located just north of the chicken coop. It has a conical metal panel cap.
According to the 1892 Plat Book of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, the property was owned by Philipp Schumacher. Philipp was born in 1855 and a second-generation farmer whose father, also named Philipp (Philippus) Schumacher was born in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, which is directly adjacent to the current boundary of the Duchy of Luxembourg. Due to the changing political boundaries of the German States, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg during the nineteenth century, it is highly likely that the elder Philipp Schumacher was actually a Luxembourger immigrant. Furthering this hypothesis, in addition to the Luxembourger building techniques exhibited by the residence, the Schumacher surname is listed in the Luxembourger Surname Files and the Family Histories and Genealogies Index held by the Dooley-Wager Research Center Collection at the Luxembourg American Cultural Society and Center. The elder Philipp Schumacher arrived in the United States in 1846 and is listed as living in the Town of Saukville by the 1870 census. While it is unknown, however, which Philipp Schumacher constructed the residence, as its approximate date of construction is circa 1878, when the younger Philipp would have been approximately 23 years old, and his father approximately 68, it is more likely that the house was constructed by the elder Philipp Schumacher. He died in 1904 and his son, Philipp, who married in 1891, lived at the property likely until his death in 1923, as he is listed as owning the property on the 1921 Atlas of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Architecture and History Survey: I-43” WHS project number 12-0649/MI/OZ. 2012. Prepared by Mead & Hunt Inc.
2025:
- 1870 and 1900 Federal Census Records for Philip Schumacher.
- “Philipp ‘Philippus’ Schumacher,” Find a Grave, accessed online July 2025 at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87498106/philipp-schumacher.
- Wisconsin Death Record, 1872 – 2004, for Philipp Schumacher, accessed July 2025 online at https://www.ancestry.com.
- Atlas of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, The Jerry Donahue Printing Co., 1921.
- Dooley-Wagner Research Center, Luxembourg American Cultural Society and Center. “Surname Files Index Master List.” August 29, 2022, accessed July 2025. https://www.lacs.lu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LACS-Research-Center-Surname-File-Index-2022.pdf.
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