Lachmund Family House

Built in 1878 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Lachmund Family House, also known as the Halasz/Lachmund House, is a historic house located at 717 Water Street in Sauk City, Wisconsin. It is locally significant in the social history of Sauk City.”
Wikipedia article Lachmund Family House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Sauk County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1878, Queen Anne style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 717 Water St., Sauk City, 53583
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. building
Village. Sauk City village
When was it built? 1878
Architectural style. Queen Anne style, Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 00000257 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

28,526 words

The chapter on Sauk City Village in A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, published 1918 names Sauk City. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Black Hawk - Discontinued postoffice in the Town of Troy named for the Indian Chief, Black Hawk, leader of the Indians in the Black Hawk war. After the battle near Sauk City the Indians fled through the wilderness near where the hamlet is located.

Passage source: A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, published 1918.

Sauk City - Village first called Harszthy for Count Augustine Harszthy, one of the founders. The name was difficult to remember so it was changed to Westfield, but as the word city, when attached to names of places, was popular then,' it was later called Sauk City, after the name of the county.

Passage source: A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, published 1918.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sauk City Village - 28,526 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Lachmund Family House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 387 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	48
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRUSSEL SMOKE
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FITZGERALD YARD
5 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SNUFFYS
27 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BREUNIG RD
26 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MAGAZINE UNIT
24 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MATCH BAG
24 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	4.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lachmund Family House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Matousek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Pulvermacher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk County

Storms near this property

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sauk City, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Lightning	Sauk City	$1,900,000	Lightning struck a commerical peg farm near Sauk City, killing about 1900 pigs. The exact location of the farm isn't known.
August 2006	Lightning	Sauk City	$25,000	Lightning struck a home, resulting in a minor fire.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sauk City	$15,000	Numerous trees down 18 to 24 inches in diameter.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sauk City	$5,000	Some trees and power lines down in Sauk City.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sauk City	$5,000	Trees and power lines down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sauk City	$3,000	A large branch around 8 inches in diameter down on a house.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Sauk City	$3,000	A road 3 miles north of Sauk City was reported to be covered by 1 to 3 feet of water due to heavy rain.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sauk City	$2,000	Scattered tree limbs down in Sauk City and Prairie Du Sac.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Sauk City	$500	Highway 12 in Sauk City is closed due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding after a quick couple inches of rain.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sauk City	-	Law enforcement officials reported building damage in Sauk City caused by severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 80 mph (70 knots).
April 2014	Hail	Sauk City	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Sauk City	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Sauk City	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Sauk City	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Sauk City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sauk County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Otto Sr. and Lisette Hahn House	under 500 feet	2012
Sauk City Fire Station	0.2 miles	1999
Sauk City High School	0.2 miles	1989
Freethinkers` Hall	0.3 miles	1988
August W. Derleth House	0.9 miles	1991
Tripp Memorial Library and Hall	1.3 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000257 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sauk County	All 58 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.