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Fi{R-9-30O (11-73)

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Union Pacif ic Railroad Contoanv narne Papillion Ar:ea l{istorical Sogrg!y___*7o__H . ri. _Rranil i. G.e_n_ara1__Llanager_ " L4L6 Doclge Street, street& rrunrhrer LL23 Delmar Street _0_uraha_*_I_ebsaska-6-8fZa- city, town Paoill ion - vicinityof slate Nebraska S, L'p$.rtii *n ,rlf fl-*..qJ aI cour+house,registry of deeds,etc. R"egister of Dee.d,s, Sarpy County Nebraska street & nurnber Nebraska Highway 370 and South 84th Street city, lown Pap ill ion state Nebraska ffi, ii4e;oveis,'#n'ia',{i

Covrdilion Gheck one Gheck one - excellent -- cleteriorated X unaltered - originalsite _- goocl -__ ruins - aliered X rnoved Oate NoVe4be"r LS ._J.27 3__ x fair - unexposed

Describe ihe present and original {ii hnown} phy3ical app.rarance

The Sautter faiaiLy farmhouse is ;r one-and-one-ha1f story, whitc, wood-frame siructure r"ith attached cobshed. Constructed during the decade of the 1-860s, the tina of statehood for Nebraska, the house and. cobshed rest on broad beaus elevated fron the ground. The beans sit on linestone piers infilled lrith a continuous linestone foundati-on ryhich encircl_es the house. Quarried 1ocaL1y along the Platte River, this foundation supporls the cobshed as well as the house.

ttT" Facing !o the wesi and/or south, the house is shaped $ith the r.rest section constituting a porch, balcony, a central- ha11, ancl four rooms--Lwo up and troo dornrn-- rnaking the tc? part oi the This pari of the house has an attached porch and -laLconll."T", second sioi-.' covered. The latter is a particularJ-y unique fealure of the dwel-l-lng.

Enter::--; =he hc':s:, ihe floor plan is a'ery typicaL for a farrnhouse of this period: a:=l-.-ia1 :--r:idor rllns rvesL to eas: and has two openings on the first fl-oor, one :: a pa:ior 01 the souih, the other :o a bedroon on the north, At the far e:C :i caa cer:ral corridor is a stailcase r,rl"th a very 1ov banister -rac:Joics. Leading u? io the The banister hancirail is leaiher covered, an unusual- feature i-;r eariy r\Tebraska farnhouses. Directly behincl the central corridor (to the eas:) 1s a l-arge diniag room on the first fl-oor and above it another ttbeadedtt bedroon o!. the seco:rd ;l-oor. In the dini-.rg rcom the wainscot.iog is handgrained, as are a1.1,of the interior doors, and rnrindowand door frames in the house. Imediaiely behiod the di-ning roon is a smalL kitciren which rvas added to the- house at sone later date. Fioa1ly, walking east and stepping dor^m from the kitchen one enters the cobshed, Attached to the house, this shed ruas a storage area for corncobs and other fuels during the Long, coLd wlnters in Nebraska. Attached utility buildings such as this cobshed are connon in Gernany.

In general, the interior of the Sautter house is virtual-ly the same today, except for obvious deterioraEion of ceil-ings and wall paper, as it r^ras a century ago. Fortunately, the Sautters prospered in the l-9th century and in 1892 they builL a larger, more nodern house jusL to the south of the original hone (50 feet away). For a tirne Ehe original home ratasoccupi.ed by younger farrily ne'nbers, but in l-916 the last of the family moved out, and from that date until the pre$ent no one has lived in the house. Though the original house was used as a storaae area for farm rnaterials, it ren:ained structurally as it was in the J-860s, without any arodern conveniences. There is no interior rriring for eLectricity; no pipes for interior plurrbing; and no ducts for central heating. f'or heat, each room had an individual stove witil connecting flue Pipes to the chinneys. A11 interior walLs are plaster and. lath, and are brick lined for insuLation. The exterior r+a11s are paiated clapboard. A11 of Lhe ceilings in the house are very low, indicaLi.re of the st;rLe of the nid-]-gth cerntury. The r.rindows'are six-over-si.x panes. The fl-oors are wide-plankecl rvood in the eaxliest constructed rooms, and narrow p]-anks in Lhe later constructed rooms. FHR-+.39) (il-7g) tlnlted .$tates Depar*sment of the lnterior Fileritage Gonservation and Recreation $erv5ce S,Satips?aflffiegasfrer @f [4is*'s,rn&Film,*iss i*i;+il'g'c Hmweffi' sry-5q @rmFnat uora Forsm

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Site: The presenE site of the SautEer house is a city park in Papillion' i{ebraska (pop. 8,500). CenErally located in the city' the smalL Park has trees of the type which shaded the originql. site of the sautter house. I,lhen the house 'L5, rarasrelocated on November L979, from the farm to the park, it was placed facing Lo the wesE, the same direction a9 it was original-1-y.

The original site of the SauEter house r,ras on a moderaEely large farm (a quarter section in the L860s), located just north of the presenE city litrdts of the city of PapiJ-lion. The farm, which consisted of the 1and, barns and house that sat o:r a hill facing to the rresL, consiiEuted a beautiful setting. Pur- chased in 1>66 by John Sautier, Sr., the fara r,ras located approximately 10 niles wesi ci ihe Yissouri River and 9 niles north of the ?latte River, The _ county see: ri Pacil-lion (Sa:-py CounLy, Nebraska) was-uTithin view of the farmhouse.

In the last decada (1970s) the original- farn site was destroyed in two major aeiions whici carved up thel-and and converted it to nonagricultural use. In L97L-72 the ? apillion/Lat/ista School- District purchased a porLion of the land anC construcied a large senior high school (1,200 students) innediaLely to the west of the SauLter house. In 1978 the Rogers Construction Company purchased the renaj-nder of the SautLer farm and rqithin a year had laid sewers, pushed through streets, erected street lights and poured conciete sidewal-ks, In effect, these actions destroyed the originaL farm sire, AnoLher large housing development (about 500 hooes) sits just across the road to the south of the Sautter farm and to the r.rest a new municipal golf course is currentl-y undet construction. By 3.979, the Sautter house sti1l sat on iLs original site, but as a stark and disturbingly odd reminder of Lhe agricultural past. amidst modern suburban houses, schools and a golf course.

Since the Sautter house was clearly incompatible nith i,ts nod.ern surroundings and was situated partially into a platt.ed sEreet, the Rogers Construction Cornpany decided to destrol. it. The PapillioD Fire Depar'tment nas asked to burn it dor,rn. Slated for destruction in eatly June, 1979, the house r'ras saved by the Papillion Area HiStorical Society. The contracLor, however,- demanded thaE it be rel-ocated. After consulting riith historical- architects, historians and city officials, the society decided to accepl. Litl-e to the house and rnove it !o the site described above, The Union Pacific Railroad Corporation made Laud available adjacent to the city park and the City of Papillion contributed money to help defray the cosls of moving the house. At Lhat time county, city and state historical- sociel-y representatives stated that relocating the Sautter house !,ras the only way to stop its cerEain destruction. Moving the house to the park in Papillion was a consequence of necessity, civic spirit, historical judgement, corporate generosity and city J,eadership. Once the house is restored, the Society j.ntends thai it be open to the public to further promote the cultural, historical, and social ties Ehat this project has created in the Papillion cornnunity. FHF-+-3oo (rr-78)

United States Departrnent of the lnterior Fleritage Gonservation and Recreation Service Natiomafl ffieglsf,er sf fflistorte Ftaces I nwemtory-ffi eivlttma*ion Fornr

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It shoul-d be noted that every effort r.7asmade to re-establish the orlentation and relationship to the grormd that the house had on its origLnal siEe (see photos). Whil-e the village park setting does not replicate the original rural-agri.cultural setting, the park does offer a rather open setting in an otherwise densely popuLated environnent. The literaL suburbanization of the origina]- siEe has destroyed the siters integrity and recormpnded the park ag an alternative--the only alternative available in what was really an emergency effort to save the fabric of thls sonewhat unique dweL1-ing before its ultimate destruction. The economics of the mote, particuJ-arly high moving costs 4nd fuLure security, precl-uded ihe selectioa of an lnterlm site and eventual rel-ocatj-on to anocher rural setti-rs. ffi" Sifrgnifil,sffiilTse

P+riod Areas of Significanca-Check and justily below ___ prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric-_ comrnunityplanning -- landscape architecture_-.- religion _ 140G-1499 ==archeology-historic -- con.servation -- law - -- sciance ___ 150r)-1599 X agriculture - economics -- literature - scuipture __ 1500-1699 - X architecture - education -- military ---- sociat/ -- 17C$-1799 -- art ---- engineering - music hunranitarian x lBoo-1899 --_ commerce - X-e4riloraiirr*'s e tt Ie m e n t .-..--_philosophy - theater --* 19f O- ___ communications _- industry -politicsigovernrnent --tr;rnsportation ---- in.lention other (specify)

Specific dates c . L866-7 0 Builder/Architect John SauLter, Sr.

9latetnenl ot Signiiicance {in on,Eparagraphl

. The Sautter farr:house is significant to Nebraska in the areas of archiiecture, agriculture 3nd setElement. Architecturally fhe house is a distinctive entify and an inporcant vesiige of German-Arnerican culture on the Plains. Agriculturally the house is inporlaai as a representative exaople of the modesL, riineteenth -:--:i1c century !a::--ouse, a:rd occupied by a faral-ly of some inportance to the agricultura- i:v=ic..=gai of lhe area. Sautierts imporLance to the seLtlenent and devei::=e;i ci :;: :.rea ielates to his operation of a grist nri1L i-n the early yea:s :i Sa:3-'- aour.ty settlement as r,rell- as his participation in the 'ra -;,uiheran foundine oi Firsr Church of Papill-ion.

Johx S:.ui:er, Sr., cane to Americe froin Osidorf, Balingen, trfurttenberg, Gerrnny, rn i854. --r Eil-ier, he r,rorked briefly in New Jersey and 1'Lassachuset.ts before coning to lieb:aska Territory in 1856 r,-here his descendanLs sti1l l-ive. In llay 1860, Sairtter marrj-ed Anna El-isabeth Lehner, a native of Ostdorf, Oberamt-Saliagen, liurt.temberg, Germany. She came to America in 1859, landing at Ne$ orleans and errigrating to omaha, Nebraska, that same year. John and Arna Sautter leased the l-and for several- years somewhqi east of Papil1-ion, operating a grist nill there for a number of years. In 1866 they purchased Ehe quarter section approxinately one mile norlh of the presenE councy seat of ?api1-1-ion (founded in 1879). Sautter prospered as one of the area's pioneer farmers and periodical-1y added to his land holdings, owning 800 acres of farm- land at one time. His farn:i1y home al-ways remained on the orj-ginal farur. Sautter vas one of the founders of the First Lutheran Church of lrapilJ.ion, He died in 1905 and his rvife, Anna, died in 19i.4.

Altbough the Johl Sautters had seven chi1.clren, tr,ro daughLers and fLve sons, only three sons l-ived to adulEhood. Each of the surviving males a-cquired large farms and businesses. The eldest son, John Sautter, Jr., spenf 79 of his 82 years on the original sautter farnily.farm. rn 1891 he married lfary LuEz l"Iaron of Springfield, Nebraska. They had four children, trro sons and tr,ro daughters. l,ike his father, John SautLer, Jr., was an excellent farrirer anJ businessuan as he added acreage to the original farn-ily farn. Characterized by the editor of th3 locaL Papil-lion Tirnes as "tru1y a Nebraska and Sarpy County pioneer, a hard working, Godfearing, honesL and uprighL nan," John Sautter, Jr., died in Septernber 1943. FHR-S-joO (1r-78)

[!ni:ted States Departrnent ',:r,1 Xnterior _,. of the .. ;- j i,.:":..ii Heritage Conservation and Flecreation Service ..' . :':l ior HCF13use orriy 1 r:-l : .. . : :, ..',1 '',j' receiv.:C" .ri , -.1 hJa"tir,Ba?alffiegister,.p$ hdns'torin F,la'ces .'a Emu'el?'t o ry-ft{ 0 m?ffs? atl,Om Fmrrn iate entcru-rd ..i -i i, :, ,t ..i'".: :..*:, . :-f tji.iri;.1:-1::. r...:-.,i ,.,. -,. ,;.1,, ,4 Continuationsheet Significance ltem nurnber Page 2

His r.ridow -and three of the four children rernained on the family farm. I'or year after year they continued farni:rg the land' although in recent decades they sold portions of it for conmercial, residential- and educational developnent. Finally, in 1978 the Rogers Constructien Cornpanypurchased the Last 160 ac-res and changed the use of the land frou general agriculture to single-family housing (510 hornes).

Despite its relocation, the Sautter House retains much of its originaL character. The pi.oneer heritage uhich the Sautter House conveys should be pleserved io this rapidly chaaging county of Nebraska. Being named to the National Re3lster will provlde the opportuniiy for obtaining the funds necessary io prese!"ve this historicaL house.

A -^1^.: - -,- r.. --1 :.",1=. !!re Sautter house is one of four distinctl-y non-Ang1o survivors j-cec",if13d so far in Nebraska, associated with rural Gernan set.tle- ment. This l:ousa, of nogged-frama construcLion, compares favorably in an architectural sense vith Ehree other recent lJational Register Listings--the li.mastone consErueted Retzlaff house (Lancaster County), the ltalf-tlmbered llitt house (Saline County), and the 1og John Henry Stork house (Burt County).

The dwel1-ing pethaps conpares most c1"osely to the Retzlaff farmhouse. Like Retzlaff, the Sautter house orienEed its formal parlor entrance (west facade) away frorn the farm courtyard, instead, choosing to orient the informal, side (south) kitchen enLrance in that direclion. Like the Retzlaff farm also, the Sauttar farnstead consisted of a loosely arranged, multiple buildj.ng, courLyard arrangement so corrDon in Northern Germany and the Lower Rhine (ltiitt"r- liille, p. 130).

The "T-shaped" arrangenent of the dwell-ing, l-ike Lhe Retzlaff house, is not seen as a particularly German feaEure, except in the utilization of vhat r,zould norslall-y be considered the side door as the fronE door--with entry directly j-nto the kitchen. Dislinctive features of the Sautter house include the off-center arrangement of the stairhal-I, the hand-grained wood trim and rralnscot of the interior and the very-low, extended dorner poreh of the west facade. Unique too, is the attached cobshed, a feature related to the living-siorage type of farnsteads found in Northern a-nclEastern Europe (MU11er-I^IiL1e,p. 131). FHR-+-3Oo (il-78) tJnited States Departraent of the tnterior t"i,eri'lageGonserva'tion and frecreation $ervice Ffia'til.a,maflffie$tsfrer @f t{istorrc Fila$es flrevemft sry-t$srn ils?ats,sm Forrm

l_It_eance

As has been noted before regarding non-Anglo structures in Nebraska (see J. H. Stork house, NRI{P, Burt County), a l-ack of suf ficient research (at least published in English) on German f olk arch-r-tecture and German- Anerican archiEecture in the trans-Appalachian lrest, makes it difficult to place these structures in their proper, broad, historical and architectural context. As VanRavenswaay noted in his study. of l,Iissouri German arehitecture, more study will be required, both in Germany and the United SLates, before we 'can adequaEai;v assess aad interpret German-American architecture, but that its importaace as a signiiicant, if relatively ninor element in the history of American d.esign can ro longer be ignored (VanRavenswaayr P. 20) " S" ilr.laipr ffiibllxa'Sr,ffi'gfaa*:a'i ffie;riey,eilt's'gs

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Verbal boundary Sescrigtion and jusiification

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The evaluaiedsignificance of this properiywithin the state is:

_- national -- state ;C local As ihe designated State Historic PreservationOiticer tor lhe National Hisloric PreservationAct of 1966 (public Law 89- 665), I hereby nominate lhis property tor inclusion in the National Registerand cerlity thal it has been evaluated according to the crit€ria and procedures set torth by the HeritageConservation and Becreaiion Service. \rr,r _.,( y1 :-n*- ggH'srot'cPr"r"r"at ture _lfXr.14s,,f JWWJ__ TPELEL title l)irector lil-e]2-ra,s-ka* Soqielty " $lxt-q-i1giqEigal. For HCFISr-rse only I herebycertify that this propertyis inctudedin the NationaiRegister

date I'leeperof the NationalRegister '''. irtest: date Chiet ot Fiegistration ] FHR-S*30o i11-78) lfnited States Departrnent of the lnterior Fieritage Gonseryation and Ftecr.eation Service ffiafrFos?a!Re$is*ter @f EdFstsrle Ptaces HnveretprlF-F€ Grfrt Iraa*Fora Form

Continuationsheet giUtio.qraoh ftem number 9

A Bridg-e Fr_omthe Past: A History of Papillion, {ebraskg' 1870-1970, Papillion, Nebraska: Tilford Co., L970.

Eighth, Ninth and Tr^relfch Census of thg Unit,ed State,,s, 1860,1870,1900.

It$Uer-Wille, Wilhelm. "Types of Houses and Farms j-n Central Europe, " Geographische Zelqschrif t 42 (f 936) , pp. l-21--l-38. Translated by Marc lwand, Nebraska State Historieal Society, J*l-y , L979, typed manuscript.

Papiii:-oa (Nebraska) Tiines, June 29, 1905.

, April 10, 1913.

, SepEember16, L943.

Sarpy Ceotennial Comnittee. View of a Century in SaTpy Counly. Papillioor Nebr.: Papillion Times Co., !967.

VanRavenswaay, Charles. The Arts and Architecture of the German S.ttl.*ents i,n Misso Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, L977 . FHR-€-3OO (lr-78)

Unlted States Department of the tnterior Heritage Gonservation and ilecreatlon Seruice ffiatilos?af,Flegister cefF{nstorns Fila$es Ernvenfi ory-ffi Grmi rra'ti pt? Forsvu Verbal Boundary DescriPtion Continuationsheet liem number 10 Page 2

Described by the projection of the roof eave line on the ground located on U'nion Pacific Railroad right-of*rvay, just norLh of the Union Pacific tracks between Washington and Jefferson sLreets and immediaLely south of Lot 2, Block t3 of the Origi.nal To-wn of Papillion, in the northwest quarter of Section 26, Township 14 North and Range L2 East, Sarpy County, Nebraska, View of formal side façade looking ENE on original site Photo by D. Murphy, June 1979 (NSHS 7906/32:11)

View of formal side façade looking ENE on new site Photo by Nancy Ryan, Papillion Area Historical Society, June 1980

General view of N & W facades looking SE on original site Photo by D. Murphy, June 1979 (NSHS 7906/32:10)

View looking SE Photo by D. Murphy, June 1979 (NSHS 7906/32:14)

View of formal W façade looking E on original site Photo by D. Murphy, June 1979 (NSHS 7906/32:13)

View looking N at S façade (W cellar) View looking N at S façade (W cellar) Photo by D. Murphy, June 1979 (NSHS 7906/32:27) Photo by D. Murphy, June 1979 (NSHS 7906/32:27)

View looking WNW Photo by D. Murphy, June 1979 (NSHS 7906/32:23)