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Ferdinand Hartwig Property
1907
Watertown Daily Times, 08 01 1907
The
property at 718 West Main Street, familiarly known as the Hartwig property, was
sold at sheriff's sale yesterday at 10:00 o'clock. The property was owned by Wm. Schulz at the
town of Cottage Grove. The successful
bidder was John W. Burns, the wood and coal dealer who bid in the property at
$2,000. There were two other bidders but
would have been more had the absentees not thought that the sale would have
lasted longer. Mr. Burns recently bought
at sheriff's sale the Northwestern Hotel property in the locality which he
secured at $1,000. This gives Mr. Burns
a strip of land from Main Street almost to the I. H. Henry box factory. The land purchased with the hotel property
will be used for a wood and coal yard, when he will move into the residence
property recently acquired.
Hartwig Home and Farm
908 Country Lane
(listed as 600 Hiawatha prior to development of adjacent subdivision)
Watertown Daily Times, 06 12 1976
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West
of Watertown on Highway 19 there is a small settlement that at one time was
part of the extensive Hartwig farms.
Away from the highway in the very center of his nearly 600 acres
Ferdinand Hartwig Sr. built his large brick home during the Civil War
years. Before the home was finished in
1864 the family lived there in a small more temporary dwelling.
Bricks
were made in the kiln on the farm, seven rooms were built into the lower level
or basement, and the family did most of their living and household chores in
this area. There was a large kitchen,
brick ovens that baked 17 loaves of bread at a time, a buttery, a wine cellar,
the bee cellar and the wood storage room with outside entrance. All had brick floors.
Above,
in the parlor, living room and dining room three barrels of sugar had been
mixed with the plaster to give a glazed china like look to the walls. The home
had one two story section and one three story section.
At the
top of the three-story section was the large room for entertaining, for
sleeping or feather stripping bees. This
was topped with a 20 window cupola, referred to by some as an Indian watch, but
the Hartwigs used it for storage and drying corn for next season's
planting. The home has deep window
sills, large open stairs, and wide halls.
The
Hartwigs had a large family of 12 children.
During summer married children and grandchildren returned for long
summer vacations. The original home as shown in old pictures had an iron fence.
The
Hartwigs were the grandparents of Mrs. W. W.
Arzberger and Harold Hartwig, two Watertown residents who remember well
many of their early gatherings in this home.
Mrs. Ferdinand Hartwig died in 1921 and the estate, smaller in size at
that time, was purchased by a son, Reinhold Hartwig. He named it Bull Moose farms since he was
quite a hunter and sportsman.
Since
1928 the home has been known as the Lunde home.
The Herbert Lundes purchased the home and moved there in January
1928. The large brick home has had few
changes in construction and has been well maintained through the years. The brick basement floors are now mostly
concrete but the Lundes have made an effort to retain many of the original
features of the home.
c.1960s
-- -- THE FERDINAND HARTWIG, SR. HOME
& FARM (traditional name)
Aerial
view of 600-acre farm
Ferdinand Hartwig (1828-1904) / Doris Otto
Hartwig (1832-1921)
1982
07 26 The home constructed in the mid-1800s by
Ferdinand G. Hartwig has now been added to the National Register of Historic
Places. The United States Department of
Interior made the designation because of the home's significance in the early
development of Wisconsin dairying. Now
owned by Kirby and Judith Brant, the home is located at
Dr. A. H. Hartwig Home on E. Main
1959
06 11 THE SEIBEL-HARTWIG
HOME
804 East Main St.
Removed
in 1960 for Clyman Oil service station (Sommers in 2020)
Former
home of Edward and Emil Seibel and later of
Dr. A.
H. Hartwig, and then by his son, Attorney Harold W. Hartwig.
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