| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION
The main house on this property is a two-story side gable building with steeply-pitched gable roof and clapboard siding. Windows have upper lights with vertical muntins and lower single lights. A large front porch has been partially enclosed. The old house has a lower one and one-half story front gable structure and a low-pitched gable roo, clapboard siding, and a crude window and door openings. It is in ruinous condition. A large fiedstone foundation on the property has been topped with a low roof. The foundation has several crude openings ansis in poor condtion. The L-shaped barn has a gable roof, board siding, fiedlstone foundation, numerous six-light window and large doors. A concrete silo sits at one end.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This house and agricultural out builings were owned by Briget Degan in 1867, J.M. O'Brain i 1873, and by Louis B. Kasten between 1920 and 1966. |
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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 Lutheran Immigration, Mequon : 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. |
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