SCANDINAVIA– Owners Jon and Linda Durrant invite the public to tour their Victorian Wrolstad-Quien home at 255 Mill St. in Scandinavia on Saturday and Sunday October 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be a craft show on site and a concessions lunch served in the heated red garage. There is four acres of parking behind the garage. A $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.
During the house tour visitors will see a full range of Queen Anne architecture such as a 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. There are also original pocket doors, fancy wood spandrels, etched glass doors featuring herons, and a stairway stained-glass window filtering colorful lights on the foyer floor.
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.
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