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Dane County Wisconsin |
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POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES As noted previously, the survey inventoried 46 resources and groups of resources within the project area. Of these, the following nine resources or groups of resources are being recommended as being potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on an individual basis.
Forward:
1. The very intact clapboard-clad Gladen & Hanson Store Building was built in 1898 in the hamlet of Forward and it is an especially intact example of the Boomtown Style. It is therefore believed that this building is potentially individually eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criteria A and C (History and Architecture) because rural examples of this style are scare and are an endangered property type, and because it also represents the only surviving historic resource associated with the history of commerce in the hamlet of Forward.(1)
Daleyville:
2. The Gulbert & Bertha Jensvold House is a very fine stone-clad example of the Side Gable form that is located in the hamlet of Daleyville. The house has a T-plan consisting of a dressed stone two-story-tall main block to which is attached a frame construction clapboard-clad two-story rear ell. Originally a farmhouse, the building was built for Gilbrand Jensvold and his wife shortly after they were married in 1868. Jensvold was a school teacher and a lay preacher who taught at the Perry Lutheran Church school from 1866 until his death in 1882.(2) This highly intact but deteriorating house is now empty and seriously threatened but it is one of the finest of the early stone houses identified by the Survey and it is believed that this building is potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture).
3. The highly intact Italianate style-influenced Onon B. Dahle house located in the hamlet of Daleyville. Daleyville was founded by Dahle (Daley is an Americanization of the original spelling), whose general store at this location (non-extant) he opened in 1853. This house was built for him in 1864 and he lived there until 1895, when he moved to the nearby village of Mt. Horeb. His house in Daleyville has a two-story-tall five-bay-wide block sheltered by a shallow-pitched hip roof whose overhanging eaves are supported by paired brackets, and it is built of stone. This house is a very fine vernacular expression of the Italianate style and it also has a high degree of integrity as well. Consequently, it is believed to be individually eligible for listing in the NRHP under both Criteria B & C (Associations with a Significant Person and Architecture).(3)
SECTION 10 10070 Spring Valley Rd. Holy Redeemer R.C. Church DA 203/11 4. The Holy Redeemer R.C. Church is a fine example of the later Gothic Revival style that was built in 1916 to a design furnished by Milwaukee architect John Paulu. The church occupies a beautiful hilltop site that had been the site of the congregation's first church, a stone Romanesque Revival style building built in 1861 that was demolished in 1915 to make way for the new and larger church. All the brick for the new church was hauled to the site from Mt. Horeb on horse-drawn sleds by members of the 25-family congregation, who also quarried all the stone for the foundation and donated $12,000 for the building's completion.(4) Also part of the church grounds is Holy Redeemer's cemetery and three stone and brick shrine-altars that are used for Corpus Christi observance ceremonies. The Holy Redeemer Church is still highly intact today and is still in use by its congregation. Consequently, it is believed that it is eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as an excellent, intact example of Gothic Revival style design.
SECTION 16 980 CTH H Lunn Family Farm DA 203/18-20 5. The Lunn Family Farm is the most intact nineteenth century farmstead in the Town of Perry. The centerpiece of the farmstead is the largely intact, cruciform plan, two-story-tall clapboard-clad Queen Anne style farmhouse, an early example of the style that still retains its original windows and which has an unusual L-plan front porch that still retains its original turned supporting posts and spindled soffits.(5) In addition to the house, the farmstead also retains a gambrel-roofed dairy barn that is clad in vertical wood boards and a number of additional early wood-clad gable-roofed outbuildings, all of which display a high degree of integrity. The resulting ensemble is one of the most complete and intact of the Town's surveyed farmsteads and is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as an excellent, intact example of the farmstead property type. SECTION 17 10653 CTH A Burgeson/Johnson Family Farm DA 204/20-23 6. The Burgeson/Johnson Family Farm is another largely intact farmstead whose late nineteenth or early twentieth century Queen Anne style farmhouse is the finest example of this style in the Town of Perry. This house also has a cruciform plan and it too is clad in clapboards, but both its larger size and more compact plan mark it as a later example of the style, one that was probably derived from a pattern book of period.(6) An aerial photo of the farm taken in 1960 shows that today's farmstead is still intact from that time and includes the original gable roof dairy barn and its adjacent silo, which is built out of hollow ceramic building tiles. In addition, the farmstead contains at least four other historic gable roof outbuildings which, like the dairy barn, are all clad in vertical wood boards. The resulting ensemble is one of the most complete and intact of the Town's surveyed farmsteads and is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as an excellent, intact example of the farmstead property type, whose Queen Anne style farmhouse is also the finest example of the Queen Anne style in the town of Perry. SECTION 20 693 STH 78 Hans Grinder Family Farm DA 204/09-11 7. The centerpiece of the Hans Grinder Family Farm is its farmhouse, which is one of the most notable buildings in the Town of Perry. This is a two-story-tall, square plan, Italianate style-influenced building that is believed to have been built by Hans Grinder in the 1870s out of stone that was quarried on the farm. The house's quarry-faced stone foundation supports walls above that made entirely out of large dressed limestone blocks, and these walls are sheltered by a hip roof whose overhanging eaves are visually supported by wooden brackets.(7) An historic photo of the house dated 1905 that is still in the Grinder family's possession shows that the house is still largely intact today and it is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as an excellent, intact example of stone construction. In addition, the farm also has a large complement of both modern and historic barns and outbuildings and it is possible that further research may support the listing of portions of the farm as an historic farmstead property type as well. 724 STH 78 Johnson/Olson Family Farm DA 204/14-16 8. Known during the Olson family's years as "Pine Lawn Farm," this farmstead is also one of the most intact surviving nineteenth century farmsteads in the Town. The centerpiece of the farmstead is the largely intact, cruciform plan, one-and-one-half-story-tall clapboard-clad Queen Anne style farmhouse, an early example of the style that still retains its small, original front porch, which still retains its original turned supporting posts and decorative pierced wooden soffits.(8) In addition to the house, the farmstead also retains a gambrel-roofed dairy barn that is clad in vertical wood boards and a number of additional early wood-clad gable-roofed outbuildings, all of which display a high degree of integrity. The resulting ensemble is one of the most complete and intact of the Town's surveyed farmsteads and is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as an excellent, intact example of the farmstead property type. 666-670 STH 78 Syftestad Family Farm Complex DA 205/09-12 9. This historic farm was developed by the Syftestad family over several generations and while it has now been divided into several separate parcels, two of its original buildings are still extant, although they are now in separate ownership.(9) The newer of the two is the Two-Story-Cube form farmhouse, which is still highly intact today and retains its original clapboard siding and windows. In addition, the main facade of the house also still retains its original centrally placed two-story porch, which is supported by turned wood posts that still exhibit their original decorative wood brackets. By far the most important of the farm's surviving buildings, however, is its main barn, which has walls that are built entirely out of large dressed blocks of locally quarried limestone. This large barn has an L-plan and it appears to have been built in two different phases, with one wing having a gable roof and the other, a hip roof. Even though this barn is no longer in use today, it is still largely intact and it is one of southwest Wisconsin's most architecturally impressive historic barns. The use of stone as a building material for a barn is very rare in Wisconsin and in the Midwest in general. Consequently, it is believed that the Syftestad barn is eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as an excellent, intact example of the use of stone as a method of construction. It is also believed that the still extant and intact farmhouse that is associated with this barn is also eligible under Criterion C as a contributing resource in this farm complex. Endnotes:
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