Historic Homes and Businesses in Carver - Carver County Historical ...

Weekly Valley Herald newspaper. Jacob Bueche died in Carver of cholera on August 24,
1881.
In July 1882 widow Genoveva married for the third time to Peter Kimmel and the couple
made their home in Carver, probably in this house. Peter Kimmel had a 200-acre farm
outside of Carver, this perhaps the same farm worked by Jacob Bueche. Peter Kimmel, a
kind but impulsive man, died at age 54 on Nov. 3, 1887. In January 1889 Genoveva
traded the 200-acre farm plus $500 to Christian Krentzian for a substantial two-story
frame house in Chaska. She retained 420 Broadway as a rental house to supplement her
income. By 1900 she was again living in Carver, this time at the Central Hotel on
Broadway, which was owned by Richard J. Neunsinger and his wife Emma, who was
Genoveva‟s adopted daughter. In 1903 Genoveva transferred 416 and 420 Broadway, as
well as five other large lots behind the properties abutting Spring Creek, to her adopted
daughter Emma, with the understanding that Genoveva would receive the rents from
them for the rest of her life.
Genoveva Kimmel was a great benefactor to the St. Nicholas Catholic Church Parish in
Carver. Her large donations to the church funded the church‟s large bell tower, built
about 1880, its two side altars, installed probably in memorial to her in Oct. 1905, and its
Stations of the Cross artwork. A large memorial stained glass window bearing her name
is on the north side of the church. Genoveva died on Oct. 6, 1905 and is buried in the new
St. Nicholas Catholic Cemetery under one of the cemetery‟s largest monuments. Next to
her under another large monument lies her second husband, Jacob Bueche. Her first and
third husbands are also buried nearby.
The house remained in the Neunsinger family until 1967 and was occupied for many
years by Emma Neunsinger‟s, son, George Neunsinger. On April 2, 1946 George
Neunsinger and his friend Scott Hartley, who lived at 100 Broadway in Carver, were in a
boat on the Minnesota River between Carver and Chaska when they discovered a floating
suitcase holding the remains of three murdered and mummified infant boys, each
strangled and wrapped in Minneapolis newspapers from different years. The murdered
infants were never identified and their murders never solved.
421 Broadway, Charles Dauwalter Blacksmith and Wagon Making Shop.
Constructed about 1880 in local buff-colored brick, the building likely is situated on the
site of an earlier blacksmith shop owned by the Dauwalter family. It was built
by Charles D. Dauwalter Sr., who had a home at 116 Fourth Street West in Carver, and
whose son Charles L. Dauwalter lived next door to the south of the blacksmith shop at
413 Broadway. The two-story building was constructed to serve as a blacksmith shop on
the lower level and a wagon-making shop on the second story. Charles D. Dauwalter was
born in Baden in the German States in 1833 and came to America in 1850. He lived for 5
years at Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, where he learned the blacksmith trade. In 1857 he
relocated to Carver where he worked for 3 years as a journeyman blacksmith for John
Bloedel. In 1860 he returned to Ohio, married Elisabeth Lull (born in 1839) in 1861, and
then returned to Carver where he entered the blacksmith business for himself. In the
Minnesota Gazatteer and Business Directory for 1865, 1872, and 1873 Charles D.