Property Record
N3688 COUNTY HIGHWAY M
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Dietrich & Sophia Miller Residence |
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| Reference Number: | 230640 |
| Location (Address): | N3688 COUNTY HIGHWAY M |
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| County: | La Crosse |
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| Township/Village: | Barre |
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| Town: | 16 |
| Range: | 6 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 21 |
| Quarter Section: | NW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2015 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Other Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Dietrich Miller immigrated from Germany, Sophia was a Wisconsin native with German-born parents. Their farm was characterized as a general farm. Their son Emil and his wife Lillian took over the farm and later passed it down to their son Gordon. 2015- "This two-story, front-gabled, brick residence has a cut stone foundation. A one-and-one-half-story wing projects from the primary (south) elevation. A frame addition also has been constructed on the west elevation of this wing, while a concrete block addition has been built on its east elevation. Fenestration appears to be modern and, on the main block, rests on stone sills. Window openings feature lintels consisting of double rows of rowlock brick topped with a row of header brick (interestingly, these lintels are identical to those seen on N3343 CTH M (230636). As well, a row of soldier brick visually separates the first and second levels. Historic period agricultural buildings on the property consist of a bank barn (230677), a concrete block milk house, a small unidentified frame structure and a tile silo. The property also contains a number of pole farm utility buildings; assessor records list a total of five agricultural pole structures. The subject property has been owned by the Miller family since the late nineteenth centuty. Born in Germany in 1853, Dietrich F. Miller immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of eleven. He purchased this 120-acre farm in 1878. On 17 April 1880, he married Wisconsin-native Sophia R. Nuttleman and they had a girl, Luella, on 16 February 1881. They later had two sons, Arthur and Emil, and another daughter, Elsa. Their subject residence was built circa 1900. By 1910, son Emil was operating the farm and Dietrich was working as a mason. The farm is characterized as a "general farm." Emil married Lillian Oldenburg and the property was passed on to their son Gordon." -"CTH M, CTH O (south) to CTH B (north)", WisDOT #5436-00-01, Prepared by Heritage Research, Ltd. (Vogel/McQuillen), (2015). |
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| Bibliographic References: | History of La Crosse County (Western Historical Company, 1881), page 857; assessor record; plat maps; census records |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |