| Additional Information: | A 'site file' titled "Henry Fischer Farm" 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 Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Field stone cabin also on property.
2002 - "The Fischer Farmstead house is a 2-story cream-brick, gabled ell with segmental arch window and door openings. The front porch has been removed, and and ell has been added to the rear, but otherwise the building has good integrity. Most significant, however, is the complement of associated outbuildings, which appear to represent a well-preserved farmstead. These include an English 3-bay barn, concrete silo, fieldstone summer kitchen or smokehouse, small gambrel roof frame structure (perhaps a workshop) with windows and a chimney, two animal (possibly poultry) barns, a frame hip roofed garage, a gable roof shed and a privy.
A sign in front of the house identifies is as the "Fischer Family Homestead Est 1865." An 1862 map of Sheboygan County shows a house is the location of the present farm house, situated on 145 acres and owned by King & Townsend. In 1875, the property was owned by H. Fischer. In 1889, the owner was Hy. Fishel [sic]. In 1902, it was owned by Philip Fischer, and Henry Fischer lived on the adjoining property, to the west. In 1916, the property still belonged to Philip Fischer. In 1941, the owner was Mrs. Alma Fischer. Henry Fischer is probably the Henry Fischer referred to by Carl Zillier (1912, vol.1:318), as "a native of Germany...who resided in Rhine township. [He] was a successful agriculturist and the family was quite prominent in their community."" |
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