Property Record
COUNTY HIGHWAY O, N SIDE, 3/4 MILE E OF HIGHWAYS 35 AND 61
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | FRANK MULLER HOUSE |
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| Reference Number: | 46814 |
| Location (Address): | COUNTY HIGHWAY O, N SIDE, 3/4 MILE E OF HIGHWAYS 35 AND 61 |
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| County: | Grant |
| City: | Tennyson |
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| Year Built: | 1840 |
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| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Federal |
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| Wall Material: | Stucco |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A STUCCO-COVERED, STONE HOUSE WITH FLANKING END CHIMNEYS AND AN ENCLOSED PORCH WHICH RUNS THE LENGTH OF THE HOUSE FRONT. FEATURES INCLUDE 6/6 LIGHTS AND NARROW STONE SILLS. FRANK MULLER, ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS IN DUTCH HOLLOW (NOW TENNYSON), TRIED MINING FOR A SHORT TIME AFTER HIS ARRIVAL, BUT SOON ABANDONED THAT OCCUPATION IN FAVOR OF THE MERCANTILE AND SALOON TRADE THAT HE OPERATED FROM HIS RESIDENCE. CONSTRUCTED OF STONE IN C. 1840, THE MULLER HOME ACCOMODATED A STORE ON THE LOWER FLOOR AND THE FAMILY LIVING QUARTERS ABOVE. ACCORDING TO THE HERALD ARTICLE, "...MR. MULLER ENJOYED A LUCRATIVE TRADE. LIKE ALL OTHERS IN THIS LINE OF BUSINESS, HE PURCHASED HIS GOODS IN ST. LOUIS AND HAD THEM SHIPPED TO POTOSI BY STEAMER." MULLER SERVED ON THE TOWN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 1861-1863 AND WAS A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE IN THE COMMUNITY. FOLLOWING MULLER'S DEATH (DATE UNKNOWN), THE STONE HOUSE WAS USED AS AN APARTMENT AND IN 1920 AS A FEED MILL. AN EARLY PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MULLER HOUSE IS INCLUDED IN THE GRANT COUNTY BICENTENNIAL PUBLICATION. THE RESIDENCE ORIGINALLY FEATURED TWO ENTRANCES AND AN OUTSIDE STAIRWAY TO THE SECOND STORY. THE ENCLOSED PORCH IS A TWENTIETH CENTURY ADDITION. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Grant County Herald, 26 April 1922. (B) Grant County History, 1900-1976, p. 187, |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |