Additional Information: | Built in 1890, this two-story, rectangular-plan, side-gable vernacular residence has a steeply pitched roof, contrasting wall materials, and decorative elements showing the influence of the Queen Anne style. Walls are clad in clapboard and the roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The house has a large projecting intersecting gable centered on its south-facing main elevation. The gable features boxed eaves with returned cornices, verge-boards with an applied vegetal decoration, and a finial at its peak. A paired of narrow, one-over-one, double-hung, vinyl windows is recessed and the wall plane curves inward on either side to meet the edge of the casing. Above the window, the gable’s wall surface is clad in decorative wood shingles, though the other walls are clad in vinyl siding. The main entrance is located on the south elevation immediately to the right of the projecting gable. Window openings contain vinyl, one-over-one, replacement sash.
See also a carriage barn (AHI #72882).
2019: Little or no change. Update photo. |
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.
“Architecture and History Survey: I-43” WHS project number 12-0649/MI/OZ. 2012. Prepared by Mead & Hunt Inc. |