| Additional Information: | 1995- "Red brick, vernacular, ca. 1860, one-and-one-half story cottage, side-gabled with five-bay facade and center doorway. Shallowly hipped roof on porch across front of house with spindled posts and decorative brackets, most of which remain. Windows are one-over-one sash under brick jack arches. Working louvered shutters remain on several windows. Foundation is stone and there is a one-and-one-half story frame wing to rear with a partially enclosed porch. Chimneys rise from each outside end of the main roof and from rear of back wing. Front porch is settling badly and building appears to be unoccupied. Interior was not inspected.
The owner listed on the 1868 plat map is H. Cooper. There were two Henry Coopers listed in the u.S. census for 1860 -- a 52-year old farmer from Hanover, whose farm was 40 acres (as was this parcel in 1868}. His wife was Caroline, 45-years old, also from Hanover and one probable son, Christian, 27, also from Hanover, lived with them. There was another Henry Cooper family-- Henry, age 29, from Hanover, with no occupation listed, a wife and two small children. In 1877 F. Grimme owned the property. Nothing is known about him. From before 1895 to after 1985, the farm was in the hands of the Sanders family, about whom also nothing is known.
This house was surveyed in the 1976 windshield survey of Grant County. It is a relatively intact version of an early, small, red brick farmhouse. The 1976 survey documented three other one or one-and-one-half story red brick cottages in the Town of Platteville, two of which appeared to have been abandoned in 1976 and may be gone by now. Four others were found in the rest of Grant County, all of an architectural quality similar to this site and few in more original exterior condition. Interior inspection is necessary to ascertain the level of integrity this building retains."
-"USH 151, Dickeyville to Belmont", WisDOT# 1209-02-00, Prepared by Katherine Hundt Rankin (Preservation Consultant) for Rust Environment & Infrastructure Inc, 1995. |
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