| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
This two and one-half story Tudor Revival house has a limestone veneer with the gables clad in stucco and wood on a faux half-timber effect. The gables are steeply-pitched and irregular on the house and projecting from the main front is a one and one-half story metal-clad oriel. Windows are single lighted double-hung sashes. The main entrance projects fron the rest of the house and consists of a round-arch wood and glass door. Limestone veneer makes an arch over the door. Also on the property is a vacant side gable house with clapboard siding, returned eaves, and a gable-roof that slopes down to the rear of the house. In 1986, it was determined that the clapboards covered a log and half-timber structure. A small outbuilding with board siding and a shed roof on a fieldstone foundation also sits on the property.
ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE
Because of its rural nature, the architecture of Mequon tend to be more vernacular than syleistic. This house, built when Meqon was experiencing suburban and estate growth, is one of the few stylistic houses in the area. Its interesting details include the half-timber effect and the front facade oriel. Mequon has a number of half-timber buildings, but many remain hidden under siding. These buildings are significant for their display of German ethnic architecture in southwestern Wisconsin. |
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| 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] Tax 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.
Featured in "M" Magazine, June 2016. |
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