Property Record
W3645 PLEASANT VALLEY RD
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | MYERS - ALBERS HOUSE (FARMSTEAD) |
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Other Name: | |
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Reference Number: | 237332 |
Location (Address): | W3645 PLEASANT VALLEY RD |
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County: | La Crosse |
City: | |
Township/Village: | Hamilton |
Unincorporated Community: | |
Town: | 16 |
Range: | 6 |
Direction: | W |
Section: | 10 |
Quarter Section: | SW |
Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
Year Built: | 1870 |
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Additions: | |
Survey Date: | 2018 |
Historic Use: | house |
Architectural Style: | Gabled Ell |
Structural System: | Brick |
Wall Material: | Brick |
Architect: | |
Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
Demolished?: | No |
Demolished Date: |
National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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Additional Information: | THE MYERS-ALBERS FARMSTEAD WAS BUILT CIRCA 1870. IT IS A ONE AND ONE-HALF STORY RED BRICK GABLED ELL HOUSE. GEORGE LEACH (ALSO SPELLED LEUCK) APPARENTLY OWNED THE PROPERTY FROM THE 1870S TO 1880S, WHEN HERMAN MYERS BOUGHT IT IN THE 1880S. FRED ALBERS SR. OWNED THE PROPERTY FROM THE 1910S TO 1960S, AT WHICH TIME FRED ALBERS JR. TOOK OWNERSHIP OF THE PROPERTY. THE PROPERTY STAYED IN THE SAME FAMILY THROUGHOUT THIS HISTORY, AS FRED ALBERS, SR. MARRIED HERMAN MYER'S DAUGHER MINNIE IN 1914. FRED AND MINNIE HAD A DAUGHTER BARBARA WHO MARRIED GEORGE SPANIAK. TODAY THE PROPERTY IS IN THE OWNERSHIP OF THE MICHAEL AND GEORGE JR SPANIAK TRUST. MICHAEL AND GEORGE JR. ARE BARBARA AND GEORGE'S SONS. THIS PROPERTY MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE NRHP UNDER CRITERION A FOR ITS HISTORY ASSOCIATED WITH LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY AGRICULTURE IN LA CROSSE COUNTY. |
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Bibliographic References: | LA CROSSE TRIBUNE - OBITUARY - 9/11/1976; 4/24/2003 LA CROSSE COUNTY TAX ROLLS |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |