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One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1868.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Enoch Gardner and Mary Caroline Koch Needham House
Built in 1868. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Needham, Enoch Gardner and Mary Caroline Koch, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 12713 W. Greenfield Ave., New Berlin, 53151
- When was it listed? June 2000
- Category. building
- City. New Berlin city
- When was it built? 1868
- National Register reference number. 00000700 - 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
75,278 wordsThis property stands in New Berlin City. The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 New Berlin City - 75,278 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
50 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Enoch Gardner and Mary Caroline Koch Needham House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1803041 |
| 26 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2002767 |
| 31 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2990 |
| 30 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 203500 |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2005040 |
| 12 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806123 |
| 11 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806080 |
| 11 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806070 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Enoch Gardner and Mary Caroline Koch Needham House: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this property
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Berlin, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 1996 | Lightning | New Berlin | $150,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Lightning | New Berlin | $50,000 | Lightning struck a home and started a fire that resulted in a fair amount of damage. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | $20,000 | The public reported trees downed by powerful thunderstorm winds 2 miles southeast of the city of New Berlin. A tree measuring 15 inches in diameter fell on a house. |
| May 2020 | Flood | New Berlin | $15,000 | In New Berlin there were numerous flooded streets, basements, and elevator shafts. |A portion of 130th St. was closed due to road buckling. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | $15,000 | Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled numerous large trees, and broken tree branches brought down some power lines. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | $10,000 | Numerous trees and branches down. One power pole damaged by tree landing on it. |
| March 2008 | Lightning | New Berlin | $10,000 | A lightning strike to a radio antenna on a home on National Avenue damaged a breadmaker, interior wiring, and electrical outlets. However , there was no fire. |
| April 2013 | Lightning | New Berlin | $5,000 | A house fire occurred in the town of New Berlin when the residence was struck by lightning. Only minor damage was reported. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | $2,000 | Sporadic coverage of trees and power lines down in New Berlin. |
| July 1999 | Lightning | New Berlin | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | New Berlin | - | Heavy rains and street flooding resulted in closing the intersection of 128th street and Cleveland Ave in New Berlin. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | - | Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees. |
| April 2025 | Hail | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | New Berlin | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visitation Convent Complex | 1.8 miles | 2011 | |
 | Dousman Inn | 2.3 miles | 1979 |
| George H. and Frances Daubner House | 3.8 miles | 2022 | |
 | Gredler-Gramins House | 5.0 miles | 1980 |
 | George Lawrence Jr. Clarke House | 6.1 miles | 1995 |
 | Freewill Baptist Church | 6.7 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000700 in Record Group 79. |
| Waukesha County | All 153 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.