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Wisconsin
Marquardt Manor
Founded 1969
1969
Founded. Sponsored by Moravian Church Western District
1982
12 22 Rev. Jack Hicks’ Christmas gift to Rev. Eric Schulze WDT
1983
08 22 Hus
Apartments - Durant Architectural Group 11
17 Ground broken for Hus Apartments WDT
08 22 Dr. Louis
W. Nowack resigned as city health commissioner;
will continue as medical director of Marquardt
WDT
10 23 Construction of
Hus Apartments WDT
1984
08 06 Dr. Louis W. Nowack, medical director of Marquardt Memorial Manor, named winner of
downtown Main Street bridge naming contest
WDT
09 05 Reception
for residents of Hus Apartments; first privately financed senior citizen
apartments in city WDT
1985
05 06 Hus
Apartments expansion WDT
05 21 Medicare provider, Marquardt Home Health Agency licensed
WDT
10 20 Construction of an additional
28 one and two bedroom units at the Hus Apartment Complex is proceeding on
schedule. The new units will bring the
total number of apartments at the complex to 50 and will boost the Manor’s
investment in the project to $2,493,000.
The apartments, to be constructed by Maas Brothers Construction Company,
will be connected to the existing units giving residents access to activities
at the Manor and Mueller Apartments which offers a noon meal as part of the
rental agreement. WDT
1998
03 19 Milo Loppnow Apartments, the latest
addition to Marquardt Village, can be viewed at an open house on Sunday from 2
to 4 p.m. The public is invited to tour
the building. Refreshments will be
served. The new 52-unit facility is
located at 800 Hidde Drive on the Marquardt Village
campus. The two-story complex is the
latest addition to the village which includes Marquardt Manor, Zinzendorf Hall,
Hus Apartments, Anna Nitschmann Apartments, Mueller
Apartments, Karl Fischer Center and Ochs Home duplexes. Sherry Miller, assistant housing
administrator for Marquardt Village, said 23 of the 52 units are contracted. The first residents began occupying the
building the last week of December.
10 21 Kyran Clark carved figures in a tree stump outside
Marquardt Memorial Manor WDT
2004
09
The
early beginnings of Marquardt Village were the outgrowth of a study presented
in 1965 indicating that Watertown was the largest Wisconsin city without being
served by a nursing home. On the basis of that survey the Western District of
the Moravian Church authorized a study on the feasibility of operating a
nursing home in Watertown.
The
positive results of that study were quickly followed by a gift of land from Dr.
Milton Ochs, son of Anna Sophia Marquardt Ochs, who had owned much of the land
on which Marquardt is now located.
"I won't sell you 15 acres;
I'll give you the whole works"
Karl
Fischer and Thor Harberg, founding members of the
effort to locate a Moravian-backed nursing home in Watertown, approached Dr.
Ochs with a request to buy 15 acres from this large parcel in the heart of the
city. His answer: "I won't sell you
15 acres; I'll give you the whole works." [see Watertown Daily Times article of 03
12 2005 (WHS_005_091) for related Ochs article]
With this
gift of land, planning for Marquardt Village began and construction got
underway a short time later. In July of
1969 the first residents moved into the 60-bed nursing home.
Over
the years the nursing home was expanded to 140 beds. In the ensuing years, more
projects were developed on the property. They were, in order of development,
Mueller Apartments, Hus Apartments, Ochs Homes Duplexes, Zinzendorf Hall (a
community based residential facility), Karl Fischer Center, Anna Nitschmann Apartments and Milo Loppnow
Apartments.
2004
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