Property Record
12416 N GREEN BAY RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | NUTRICIA FARMS |
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| Other Name: | CHARLES RUDOLPH |
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| Reference Number: | 71789 |
| Location (Address): | 12416 N GREEN BAY RD |
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| County: | Ozaukee |
| City: | Mequon |
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| Year Built: | 1850 |
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| Survey Date: | 1990 |
| Historic Use: | barn |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Board |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | DESCRIPTION This house is a one and one-story gable ell with numerous additions. The roof is a steeplu-pitched and the building is covered with abestos siding. There are decorative wood shingle topping the group of front windows. Most window opening are single-pane double-hung sashes. Some windows are multiple-pane double-hung sashes. The two entrances that flank the projecting front gable section are covered with simple overhangs with wooden post. Also on the property is an animal barn that is partially sided with shiplap siding and partially constructed with fieldstone foundation. The barnis two-stories in height and has a steeply-pitched intersecting gable roof. On top of the roof is a cupola. The stone section has a irregular placed window with multiple lights. Windows in this side section are multiple lights and multiple-light double-hung sashes. There is alos a hay barn with wood siding on the property. ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE The stonework on the barn is expertly done and is typical stonework found on houses and outbuildings in Mequon. The additions of a number of windows gives the barn a more refined appearance. The frame section of the barn is also well built and the overall preservation of the structure is very high. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND This property was originally owned by Ephraim Woodworth in the mid-nineteeth century. It was then owned by Dr.Gustav Kletzch between 1906 and 1933. Dr. Kletzech names the farm Nutricia Farms and acquired the land adn produce baby formula. Dr. Kletzsch studied medicine in New York and Germany. In Germayny he became formiliar with Nutricia baby formula there. He came to Milwaukee in 1898 an din 1906 he came to Mequon. He began producing baby formuls but it was not a success. But, Kletzsch continued to expand his farm operations and dairy holdings eventually increasing his land to 400 acres and his herd to 68 holsteins. He did create a sucessful home delivery milk company in Milwaukee which was sold to Gridley Dairy Company in 1922. He began a butcher shop that was know as the Nurticia Dairy Farm Products Co. and sole quality meats. When Kletzsch died in 1933, his operations were tern\minated and most of the land was sold to the Nieman Co. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dairying in Wisconsin went through an expansion period from small farms producing small amounts of milk, to larger farms with more cows and larger facilites. Some farms grew at evan faster rates, becoming larger milking operationsthat sold milk to cheese factories, creameries, or milk distributors, or sold milk under their own company name. The Nutricia Farms is an important example of dairy expansion in Wisconsin since it grew to be a large operation that first attempted to produce baby formula, a new product related to the expanded dairy industry in Wisconsin. Evan though it was not successful, it eas a significant and unusual enterprise related to dairying in Mequon. The later development of bottled milked delivered under the farm's own name was more sucessful and wastypical of a number of large farms that delivered their own milk in towns and citiees in Wisconsin before the advent of a fewlarge dairy companies cornering the market in dairy products production and distribution. Because these buildings were part of the historic Nutricia Farms dairying operations, a significant and large farm in the early twentieth century, they are as important resource in the history of agriculture in this historically agricultural city. |
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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. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |