Thursday, October 2, 2014

Nolte-Wasy Garage and Tool Shed

Somewhere in the woods between the Deep River and Big Maple Lake is the location of these two buildings …

2014-10-2. DRF Garage & Shed 1947 001 detail
(Click on images to enlarge)
Images courtesy of Chester Wasy.


… but I don't know where, exactly.

Here is the description from the 1947 property assessment report.

2014-10-2. DRF Garage & Shed 1947 001

The garage was made of Hobart terra cotta, or so I'm told. (While I have found a concrete foundation out there surrounded by fragments of terra cotta, the foundation looks too small to hold two cars; it might be another terra cotta outbuilding which we shall get to later.) It was built within Louis Nolte's lifetime, as Henry and Louis each had their own car to park in there — a Model T and a Model A, not sure who had which.

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