Two Historic Homes in Town of Perry
The Wisconsin Historic Preservation Review Board is considering placing two Daleyville homes on the State and National Registers of Historic Places: the Onun B. and Bergit (Betsy) Dahle home and the Gulbrand and Bertha Jensvold home. Both are unusual in the native limestone block used in their construction and the great deal of attention given to the dressing of the stone.
Onun B. Dahle, who had seen adventures in the California Gold Rush and whose re-spelled name now identifies Daleyville, built his imposing limestone residence there in 1864 to replace the log home which he and Betsy had lived in for ten years. The Dahles owned and operated the first store in the community and raised six children —Herman, Henry, Thea, Marie, Theodore and Karolina.
The Jensvolds married in 1868 and constructed their home in a depression on the south end of present-day Daleyville. Though severely damaged, the sturdy home survived a tornado in 1878. Gulbrand and Bertha raised five children—Johannes, Dikka, Kjersti, Cornelius, and Sacharias. Gulbrand was a Norwegian-credentialed schoolteacher who served in a parochial school in Perry Township and was a Klokkar, or lay assistant to the pastor, of Perry Lutheran Church from 1866 until his death in 1882.
Above: OB Dahle Home
?Jensvold Farm Home, near Perry Church, Daleyville. ca. 1890.