| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This house is a two story gable ell built with a low-pitched intersection gable roof, clapboard siding, and large gable roof dormer projecting from the roof of the ell. Windows are six-over-nine light double-hung sashes. There is a fan light in the dormer. The entrance has a wooden door, sidelight, a transom and a cornice lintel. The ell porch has a plain frieze, square post and brackets. The house appears to have been remodeled in the mid 1980's. Also on the property is a gable barn with board siding, feildstone foundation, large sliding doors, window openings in the foundation, and a concrete silo at one end of the barn.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This property was owned by William Trautman between 1867 and 1873 and by Theodore Ziegler between 1924 to 1960. [a] |
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| Bibliographic References: | [a] Plat Maps for the city of Mequon, 1867-1890, on file at the Mequon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin, or the Archives of the State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
[b] Tax Rolls for the city of Mequon, 1867-1980, on file at the library, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[c] Field observation based on architectural and historical infromation.
[d] Information from the owner of the property.
[e] Information from the building's datestone or insrciption.
[f] Freistadt Historical Society, Freistadt and the Luteran Immogration, Mequon: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1989.
[g] L. Rehm, Mequon History, on file at the Mwquon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[h] C.W. Butterfield, History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Chicago: Western Publishing Company, 1980.
[i] Information from the Mequon Landmarks Commission, Mequon, Wisconsin. |
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