Property Record
HORICON WILDLIFE AREA (WILLIAMSTOWN)
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | |
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| Other Name: | Horicon WLA Boathouses (DNR) |
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| Reference Number: | 77048 |
| Location (Address): | HORICON WILDLIFE AREA (WILLIAMSTOWN) |
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| County: | Dodge |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Williamstown |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 12 |
| Range: | 16 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 31 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SE |
| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Additions: | 1938 |
| Survey Date: | 1991 |
| Historic Use: | bath house/restroom facility |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Drop Siding |
| Architect: | |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. This record represents three boat houses, one which was built in 1900 (Building #00745), and two others which were built in 1938. Each one-story astylistic utilitarian structure features a rectangular shaped plan configuration, a concrete block foundation, a wood frame construction, an exterior of drop siding, a wood trim, and an asphalt shingled roof. One has a gabled roof, while the others have hip roofs. Description of Horicon Rough Fish Station: Residence (c. 1906), mess hall (1902), and two "storage buildings" (barns, 1911 and 1915) -- all part of the original Brecker farm. The house was sold last year and, as of July 1979, is off its foundations and ready to be moved to privalte frame construction. Most recently, it housed student summer interns for DNR. The original stone foundation remains. The mess hall may have been a summer kitchen. It is a small one-story frame building. Storage #00080 is a large barn. With a gambrel roof and vertical board siding , it rests on a heavy (and heavily mortared) stone foundation. Storage #00079 is a long frame machine shed. Significance: At one time, the Brecker complex probably represented a prosperous farm operation. Interesting buildings, but significant neither architecturally nor historically. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Date of construction source: DNR. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |