Property Record
11655 N SHORECLIFF
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Ruetter |
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| Other Name: | Hadcock |
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| Reference Number: | 75483 |
| Location (Address): | 11655 N SHORECLIFF |
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| County: | Ozaukee |
| City: | Mequon |
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| Survey Date: | 1990 |
| Historic Use: | milk house |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Fieldstone |
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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 two-story gabled ell house has a steeply-pitched intersecting gable roof, clapboard siding, and a fieldstone foundation. Windows are largely single-light double-hung sashes, some covered with multiple pane storm windows. They are decorated with cornice windows hoods. The ell porch has a hipped roof, delicate scroll brackets and turned posts. Also on the property is a shed foundation constructed of fieldstone foundation. A roof has been added to the foundation to make a shed. |
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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 |