Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
Thw main building on this property is a gable-roofed barn attached to a one and one-half story side gable house. The barn section has board siding, a fine fieldstone foundation with numerous windows and doors, a cupola, and a gable projection over the banked entrance. The side gable house sections festures a gable roof with shed-roofed dormers, and clapboard siding. Windows are double-hung sashes. A firldstone constructed silo sits at one end. It has a conical roof with with gable-roofed dormer. Also on the property is a smaller barn with high fieldstone foundation, several six-light openings and board and batten siding. The form of this building is cross gabled. |
Bibliographic References: | [a] Plat Maps for the city of Mequon, 1867-1980, on file at the Mequon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin, or the Archives at the State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
[b] Taxs Rolls for the city of Mequon, 1857-1930, on file at the library, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[c] Field observation based on architectural and historical information.
[d] Information from the owner of the property.
[e] Information from the building's datestone or inscription.
[f] Freistadt Historical Society, Freistadt and the Lutheram Immigration, Mequom: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1989.
[g] L. Rehm, Mequon History, on file at the Mequon Historical Society, Mequon, Wisconsin.
[h] C.W. Butterfield, History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Chicago: Western Publishing Company, 1880.
[i] Information from the Mequon Landmarks Commission, Mequon, Wisconsin. |