W3645 PLEASANT VALLEY RD | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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W3645 PLEASANT VALLEY RD

Architecture and History Inventory
W3645 PLEASANT VALLEY RD | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:MYERS - ALBERS HOUSE (FARMSTEAD)
Other Name:
Contributing:
Reference Number:237332
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):W3645 PLEASANT VALLEY RD
County:La Crosse
City:
Township/Village:Hamilton
Unincorporated Community:
Town:16
Range:6
Direction:W
Section:10
Quarter Section:SW
Quarter/Quarter Section:SW
PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1870
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 AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name:Not listed
National Register Listing Date:
State Register Listing Date:
NOTES
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.
Bibliographic References:LA CROSSE TRIBUNE - OBITUARY - 9/11/1976; 4/24/2003 LA CROSSE COUNTY TAX ROLLS
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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