Berger Homestead There had been a fire in the small house before John and Mary purchased it in 1865. Therefore the house had to be remodeled or rebuilt before John & Mary moved in.
The deep cellars below the east side of the house indicate that the area above was the original house. As the family grew there were several additions. I believe the room on the southwest, the bedroom above, and the west stairway was the 1st addition. Aunt Theresa said that the Kitchen, the bed room above and the 2nd floor bath room was the last addition.
We don't know when the summer kitchen and the back porch were added, but they were there in 1899.
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Carriage House, Sleeping quarter, Barn Near the entrance at the bottom of the hill a structure stone structure was built with a barn on the ground lever, a sleeping area above and a shed for the carriage was built. This structure is pictured in 1899. We do not know when it was built.
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Barn on the circle A 2 story wood barn stood on the south side of the circle in 1899. It had an out house on the outside of the southeast corner. We do not know when it was built. It was taken down in the 1950s.
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Nauni's house We have no record of when this small one room house was built, I would guess it was shortly after Nauni arrived on the Hill. By 1940 the house was gone, only the stone foundation remained.
Eckerle Homestead Around the time of their marriage in 1895 the Eckerle home was built. A carriage house was built on Queen City Avenue below their house.
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Swimming Pool John Eckerle had the pool built in 1910.
Chicken Coop & Picnic Tables During the 1930s when the Wally and Elsa Meyer, Wally and Jean Sheblessy, the Franz and Herb Trefzgers began to spend a lot of weekday evenings and Saturdays and Sundays on the hill the grass was cut with a hand pushed lawn mower, the old chicken coop was cleaned up and made into dressing rooms, and picnic tables were built.
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Lodge Wally Sheblessy designed and with the help of Wally Meyer built the lodge building in 1940. Originally the lodge contained the men's dressing room on the north, and the women's on the south ends of the building.
After the bath house was built in 1949 the the two interior walls in the lodge were removed, and the bar built on the north end.
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Bath House In 1949 Wally Sheblessy designed the new dressing rooms and again he and Wally Meyer built them.
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Sidewalk on north side of the pool In 1950 Wally Meyer and Wally Sheblessy put in the sidewalk on the north side of the pool and built the stonework in the area.
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Carriage House on the circle In 1988 Fred Berger had Wally Sheblessy design the new carriage house and apartment on the circle. Fred had the shell and exterior built. He and David finished the interior.
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