| Additional Information: | 2019 City of New Berlin survey recommendation write-up:
This farmstead is comprised of a ca. 1870s gabled ell house, as well as no less than three gabled barns with fieldstone foundations, a gabled shed, a silo and a small frame outbuilding. The house is comprised of a two-story, front-facing gabled block and a slightly shorter but two-story ell wing that is fronted by a hipped roof porch. The home’s clapboard siding appears to be intact; however, most windows appear to be replacements.
This farm was built and developed by the Charles Miller family. Charles G. Miller was born in Germany in 1816. In 1846, he wed Mary Bassett, who was born in New York in 1823. The Millers came to Wisconsin by no later than 1850, at which time they purchased the subject parcel from Jacob Kinsey. The Millers had seven children and it was their only son John who would take over the farming operation after Charles died in 1887. Mary remained on the farm until her death in 1906. Following John’s death in 1927, the farm passed on to John’s widowed sister, Amelia Ann McLaughlin, who owned the property until at least 1940. Amelia died in 1944 and the land remained in the family through at least 1949. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Historical & Architectural Resources Survey, City of New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin prepared by tes | Historical Consulting, LLC, 2019.
Footnotes for the 2019 City of New Berlin survey information provided below:
U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1850-1920; Jacob Kinsey to Charles Miller, Warranty Deed, 29 April 1850, Book 6/page 120; Assessor’s information provides an 1844 date of construction; however, information included in the 1995 report cites a more likely 1870 date of construction (for at least a portion of the home); Map of the County of Waukesha, Wisconsin (New York: M.H. Tyler, 1859); Atlas of Waukesha County, Wisconsin ( Madison, WI: Harrison & Warner, 1873); Plat Book of Waukesha County (1891); Standard Atlas of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (1914); Plat Book of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Rockford, IL: W.W. Hixson & Co., 1920); “Peake Family Tree,” Available through Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/36865595 /person/19421422672/facts, Accessed August 2019.
New Berlin Reconnaissance Survey 1995, 7. |
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