Property Record
1313 TOPEL ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | EVERSON FARMSTEAD SILO |
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| Other Name: | |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 229253 |
| Location (Address): | 1313 TOPEL ST |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| City: | Lake Mills |
| Township/Village: | |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 7 |
| Range: | 13 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 23 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2014 |
| Historic Use: | silo |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Wood |
| Architect: | |
| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| National Register Listing Date: | |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' titled Everson Farmstead exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. 2014 Associated with The Everson Farmhouse (AHI No. 6993). This large wood silo is located at the junction of the two basement barns and is connected to both barns by shed-roof hyphens. The silo is approximately 30 feet in diameter, constructed on a stone foundation with balloon-framed walls sheathed in narrow horizontal wood siding, and is of the type described as a King silo or “Wisconsin silo.” [a] The conical roof features a small gable dormer on the southwest. A two-story shed-roof hyphen connecting the silo to the northernmost barn also shelters a doorway in the stone foundation that may have been used to unload silage. |
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| Bibliographic References: | [a] F.M. Hillman, Homemade Silos, Montana Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics Bulletin No. 21 (1 June 1917), 13. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |