MILWAUKEE— A Wisconsin man who bought historic home in Milwaukee found something unusual in his yard during renovations.

Earlier this year, back in January Andy Nunemaker purchased the historic UWM alumni house. The house was built in the 1920s and holds a lot of history.

“Here we have the original architecture plan, the original site plan so a lot of history was saved,” Nunmaker said.

Nunemaker said he’s making it his mission to bring as much of the original historic charm back to life during the remodel process. It’s a long journey and is expected to be done in about nine months from now.

They are doing a lot of work inside and out.

“The butler pantry had all original wooden cupboards and cases. So ww are having this all refinished but keeping the original. So the idea is to keep as much as we can but but bring it up to standards for modern living,” Nunemaker said.

Outside the home, work is also being done. Nunemaker was looking to build a garage and it turns out so were the original owners 100 years ago. They even stocked up on the building materials for it and buried them underground.

“There’s always been an urban legend that there was stone buried on the property. The family built the house in 1920 and wanted to build a garage so they ordered enough stone for the property but didn’t know where to build it so they buried it on the property,” Nunemaker said.

Luckily, Nunemaker and a team of experts were able to dig up this long lost treasure and have plans to put it to its intended use.

“My hope was to be able to bring this back to as close as it looked in 1920. I know it didn’t have a garage but if we are to build one this is the way to do it,” Nunemaker said.

An exciting surprise to take this stone and build back history piece by piece.

“I’m just excited we can do it,” Nunemaker said.

The home will be open to the public in June of 2022 as the Wisconsin Breast cancer show house.