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Marquardt Manor
Founded 1969
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
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.
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.
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