Building date: 1848
Original use:
Corner structures: Tooled limestone quoins
Mortar application and content:
Types and uses of stones: Large coursed fieldstone
Types and choice of windows: Lintels and sills are of limestone, enclosing regularly-spaced six-light double-hung sash.
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Jonathan Merrill Clark, whose original ownership is documented on the inscription stone of the house.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'56.30"N 87°59'23.97"W. Current owner of record, Friends of the Jonathan Clark House LTD as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Ozaukee County Maps.
Jonathan Clark house, 13615 N. Cedarburg Road, Mequoin, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin is part fieldstone and part cobblestone. It was built in 1848 and is on the Wisconsin Inventory of Historic Places. It was put on the National Register of Historic Places in in 1982. Early Mequon settler, Jonathan Merrill Clark, whose original ownership is documented on the inscription stone of the house, was said to have walked from his native Vermont to stake his claim to land in the Wisconsin Territory. Clark and his wife Mary Turck (daughter of the operator of one of the town's first saw mills,)and family retained ownership until 1872, when the property was purchased by John Doyle. The Doyles held their claim until 1946, after which the house and farmlands passed through several hands. The masonry/stonework on the front of the house is not what we’d describe as 'cobblestone masonry.' However, the side of the building that I could see in the photo does appear to have the traditional ‘cobblestone-style’ masonry - although more 'vernacular' than 'high-style' in its construction. Richard Palmer blog.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Clark House
- Page 219
Editor's Note: This structure is not listed in the Cobblestone Buildings in Wisconsin article. The Schmidt book page 219 description is just two sentences. Whether or not this Greek Revival structure qualifies as an authentic 1820 - 1865 period cobblestone building is a matter of interpretation. General consensus is the building is a unique hybrid structure of quarried stone for the front and large cobblestone/fieldstone for the remainder. This does not alter the historical significance of the building.
Named a Mequon WI Landmark in 1981 and opened to the public as a historic house museum.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
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¹ Imagery courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society.
