Bake Sale at the Victorian House Tour
Saturday and Sunday, October 24 & 25, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tour the Wrolstad-Quien Victorian farmhouse at 255 Mill Street in Scandinavia, Wisconsin! Support local area causes, learn about this renovated 1893 home, and find unique, locally crafted items to purchase!
$3 entry fee per person all goes to benefit The Humane Society of Waupaca County.
Bake sale in the kitchen benefits the Scandinavia Public Library.
Craft show on the first floor including quilts, loomed rugs, jewelry, holiday items, beauty items, preserved foods, and more. Everything handcrafted and home-grown!
For more information, please visit the 1893 Victorian Farmhouse blog.
“Wisconsin had always been land occupied and owned by Native American Indians of several nations. The Menominee nation controlled most of eastern and central Wisconsin until the first decades of the 19th century. By 1852 a treaty between the federal government and Menominee was reached, and in the last cold months of that year the Menominee moved to a reservation in northeastern Wisconsin.
During a five-year span (1850-1855) Norwegian immigrants registered and received land parcels to make the Indian land their own, building homes and clearing land for farming. These lands were to become known as the village of Scandinavia, Wisconsin on the South Branch of the Little Wolf River. Imagine–in 1850, there was only wilderness between Winchester and Scandinavia, Wisconsin.
Four of those original 1850s land patent certificates are on display in the restored Victorian home of Jon and Linda Durrant in Scandinavia, WI. Their home was built in 1893 by Norwegian immigrant John Olsen Wrolstad, a U.S. Civil War Veteran and owner a successful logging business and flour mill. Second owners were Thomas and Maren Quien family who owned the house for 90 years.
Third owners Jon and Linda Durrant invite you to tour their Victorian Wrolstad-Quien home at 255 Mill Street in Scandinavia, WI on Saturday and Sunday October 24 & 25 from 10:00a until 5:00p. They know you’ll enjoy the Craft Show on site and a Concessions Lunch served in the heated Red Garage. 4 acres of parking behind the Red Garage. Your $3 donation at the door goes directly to the Humane Society of Waupaca County and is the reason the Durrants host this event each year Halloween Weekend. Come visit and grab a sweet treat.
During the house tour you will see a full range of Queen Anne architecture. Wrap around front porch, turned columns, bay windows, cutaways, corbels, and short spindles that look like spinning tops. The house’s faux bois woodwork was not only fashionable at the time, but considered lavish to have artisans paint woodwork to look like quarter sawn oak, walnut, and mahogany. Windows and doors are decorated with Eastlake spoon carved flower blocks, fluted rails and stiles. You’ll see original pocket doors, fancy wood spandrels, etched glass doors featuring herons, and a stairway stained-glass window filtering colorful lights on the foyer floor.”