National Register of Historic Places listings in Winnebago County, Wisconsin facts for kids
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
There are 92 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
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| 1 | Algoma Boulevard Historic District |
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(#94001368) |
Roughly Algoma Boulevard from Woodland Ave. to Hollister Ave. 44°02′01″N 88°33′23″W / 44.033611°N 88.556389°W |
Oshkosh | String of large, elaborate homes, once known as the "Gold Coast" of Oshkosh. Many were built by lumber barons and officers of their companies. Notable examples of different styles are the 1857 Greek Revival Kohlmann house, the 1868 Italianate Anthes house, the 1888 Queen Anne Charles Wood house, the 1897 Shingle-style Ideson-Osborn house, the 1911 Richardsonian Romanesque Moses Hooper house, the 1908 Tudor Revival Sawyer house, the 1911 Colonial Revival Schriber house, the 1917 Wright-designed Prairie Style Hunt house, and the 1926 Mediterranean Revival Converse house. |
| 2 | Algoma Boulevard Methodist Church |
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(#74000140) |
1174 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′55″N 88°33′19″W / 44.031944°N 88.555278°W |
Oshkosh | Richardsonian Romanesque Methodist church designed by Oshkosh architect William Waters and built in 1892. Prominent Oshkosh families belonged, including the Paines, Sawyers and Hicks. |
| 3 | Gustav Augustin Block |
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(#86001181) |
68 Racine St. 44°12′07″N 88°26′46″W / 44.201944°N 88.446111°W |
Menasha | This 1894 building is now the "most complete example of late 19th century commercial vernacular form in Menasha." German immigrant Gustav worked his way up from farming and factory work to running a grocery in the first floor of this building and living upstairs. |
| 4 | Havilah Babcock House |
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(#74000141) |
537 E. Wisconsin Ave. 44°10′51″N 88°26′59″W / 44.180833°N 88.449722°W |
Neenah | Well-preserved 2.5 story Queen Anne home with 3-story round tower and touches of Eastlake style, Stick style, and Tudor Revival, designed by Waters and completed in 1883. Interior furnishings are mostly Eastlake, chosen by Havilah Babcock, one of the four founders of Kimberly, Clark and Co. |
| 5 | George, Sr., and Ellen Banta House |
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(#97000366) |
348 Naymut St. 44°11′47″N 88°26′38″W / 44.196389°N 88.443889°W |
Menasha | Two-story house built in 1878 and restyled to Queen Anne in 1888. In that year George began printing with a small press in the dining room of this house. That operation expanded to the modern Banta Corporation, which survived to 2006. |
| 6 | Edward D. & Vina Shattuck Beals House |
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(#08000121) |
220 N. Park Ave. 44°11′16″N 88°26′50″W / 44.187778°N 88.447222°W |
Neenah | Arts and Crafts-styled home overlooking the Fox River, designed by Alexander Eschweiler in the manner of British architect Charles Voysey in 1911. Edward led a door manufacturing business and Vina was a Kimberly-Clark heiress. |
| 7 | George O. Bergstrom House |
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(#93000144) |
579 E. Wisconsin Ave. 44°10′50″N 88°26′59″W / 44.180556°N 88.449722°W |
Neenah | Queen Anne home with two towers, built in 1894, probably designed by Waters. Bergstrom immigrated from Norway in 1851, co-founded Bergstrom Brothers Stove Works, and served as mayor and director of banks in Neenah and Kaukauna. His son co-designed the Pentagon. |
| 8 | Black Oak School |
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(#87001062) |
5028 S. Green Bay Rd. 43°56′42″N 88°34′56″W / 43.945°N 88.582222°W |
Nekimi | Second-generation one-room school, with hipped roof and bell tower, built around 1900. |
| 9 | Abraham Briggs Bowen House |
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(#82000731) |
1010 Bayshore Dr. 44°00′37″N 88°31′29″W / 44.010278°N 88.524722°W |
Oshkosh | Ornate early Italianate house built in 1856 for Bowen, real estate developer and investor in Michigan lumber. Later divided into rental units. |
| 10 | Brainerd Site |
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(#84003823) |
Address Restricted |
Neenah | |
| 11 | Brin Building |
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(#86001541) |
1 Main St. 44°11′57″N 88°27′10″W / 44.199167°N 88.452778°W |
Menasha | Brick commercial building designed by local architect H. D. Werwath in Mediterranean Revival style and built in 1928. It included a 932-seat movie theater, stores, a 12-lane bowling alley in the basement, and apartments upstairs. |
| 12 | Brooklyn No. 4 Fire House |
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(#95001505) |
17 W. 6th Ave. 44°00′44″N 88°32′19″W / 44.012222°N 88.538611°W |
Oshkosh | Italianate-styled fire house designed by William Waters and built in 1868, after major fires in 1859 and 1866. By the time it closed in 1946, #4 spanned the transitions from volunteer firemen to professionals, from mobile pumps to hose wagons, and from horses to motorized trucks. |
| 13 | Carpenter Site (47 Wn 246) |
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(#82000725) |
Address Restricted |
Eureka | |
| 14 | Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot |
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(#94000134) |
500 N. Commercial St. 44°11′35″N 88°27′23″W / 44.193056°N 88.456389°W |
Neenah | Hip-roofed red-brick depot of the C&NW, designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Richardsonian Romanesque style. Built in 1892, remodeled in 1942, and in service until 1982. |
| 15 | Cole Watch Tower |
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(#78000148) |
West of Omro on Highway 21 44°02′51″N 88°46′54″W / 44.0475°N 88.781667°W |
Omro | 7-story brick and steel tower added in 1935 to an Italianate farmhouse built in the 1870s. The tower provided living quarters, but also a perch from which the Coles could watch their fox pens without disturbing the animals. |
| 16 | Daily Northwestern Building |
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(#82000732) |
224 State St. 44°01′00″N 88°32′09″W / 44.016667°N 88.535833°W |
Oshkosh | Newspaper office and production building designed by Auler, Jensen & Brown of Oshkosh in Neo-Italian Renaissance style and built in 1930. The Daily Northwestern, founded in 1860 and guided by John Hicks, became one of the strongest Republican papers in the state, and is the only survivor of the early papers. |
| 17 | Doty Island (47-WN-30) |
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(#85001368) |
Address Restricted |
Menasha | |
| 18 | Doty Island Village Site |
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(#95001552) |
Address Restricted 44°11′19″N 88°26′19″W / 44.188611°N 88.438611°W |
Neenah | |
| 19 | East Forest Avenue Historic District |
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(#05001229) |
Generally bounded by E. Forest Ave., Webster St., Hewitt St., and 11th St. 44°11′27″N 88°26′44″W / 44.190833°N 88.445556°W |
Neenah | Well-to-do neighborhood with 27 contributing properties, including the 1882 Italianate/Second Empire Syme-Gilbert House, several Queen Anne houses listed below, the 1904 Colonial Revival/Queen Anne Gilbert-Lachmann House pictured at left, the 1915 Arts & Crafts/Craftsman Pfeiffer-Kimberley house, the 1924 American Foursquare Seiler House, and the 1937 International-styled Bellack House. |
| 20 | Equitable Fraternal Union Building |
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(#15000989) |
116 S. Commercial St. 44°11′09″N 88°27′44″W / 44.185864°N 88.462156°W |
Neenah | Meeting hall of a fraternal life insurance society, designed by William Waters in Neoclassical style and built in 1908. |
| 21 | Eureka Lock and Lock Tender's House |
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(#76000082) |
South of Eureka on the Fox River 43°59′45″N 88°52′18″W / 43.995833°N 88.871667°W |
Eureka | 200x35 foot navigation lock built of wood in 1876 as part of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway and rebuilt of concrete in 1941, with lock-tender's house built in 1878. Now the only operating lock on the upper Fox, since a revamp by the Berlin Boat Club in 2012. |
| 22 | First Methodist Church |
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(#95000247) |
502 N. Main St. 44°01′12″N 88°32′13″W / 44.02°N 88.536944°W |
Oshkosh | Unusual (in Wisconsin) urban church building with storefronts at street-level. The building was begun as an opera house, until damaged by a fire in 1874. At that point the Methodist congregation bought it and completed it as a Neo-Classical-styled church. After they moved to a new building in 1970, it was used by Boys' Club and as a homeless shelter.[1] |
| 23 | First Presbyterian Church |
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(#74000142) |
110 Church Ave. 44°01′14″N 88°32′19″W / 44.020556°N 88.538611°W |
Oshkosh | Picturesque Richardsonian Romanesque church designed by W. A. Holbrook and built in 1893 by Presbyterian congregation. |
| 24 | Fraternal Reserve Association |
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(#15001048) |
105 Washington Ave. 44°01′04″N 88°32′10″W / 44.017715°N 88.536235°W |
Oshkosh | 4-story office building designed by local architect Henry Auler in Neoclassical style and built 1913-14 to house a fraternal insurance company which merged with Equitable Fraternal Union of Neenah in 1930. A.k.a. the Washington Building. |
| 25 | Frontenac |
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(#82000733) |
132-140 High St. and 9 Brown St. 44°01′05″N 88°32′22″W / 44.018056°N 88.539444°W |
Oshkosh | 2-story Victorian apartment building, mixing Queen Anne style and Richardsonian Romanesque, built from 1893 to 1899 by Joseph T. Raycraft. Largely unchanged since. |
| 26 | Hans Gram House |
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(#87001123) |
345 E. Wisconsin Ave. 44°11′01″N 88°27′19″W / 44.183611°N 88.455278°W |
Neenah | 2-story frame home with Queen Anne and Italianate influences, built in 1887. Hans operated a dry goods store. |
| 27 | Grand Loggery |
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(#74000143) |
Doty Park (Lincoln St.) 44°11′14″N 88°26′53″W / 44.187222°N 88.448056°W |
Neenah | Large house of squared logs built in 1845 by James Doty, territorial judge, land developer (of Madison in particular), and governor of Wisconsin Territory and Utah Territory. Mrs. Doty is said to have named the house. Reconstructed in 1948 and now a museum. |
| 28 | Augustin Grignon Hotel |
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(#75000084) |
Southeastern corner of the junction of Main and Washington Sts. 44°05′58″N 88°39′12″W / 44.099444°N 88.653333°W |
Butte des Morts | Early inn/trading post built in 1843 by Augustin Grignon on the Tomahawk Trail, which ran from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien. The Greek Revival building housed a trading post, post office and saloon on the first floor and guest rooms on the second. It is one of the oldest wooden buildings in the state. |
| 29 | Richard Guenther House |
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(#84003824) |
1200 Washington Ave. 44°01′05″N 88°31′18″W / 44.018056°N 88.521667°W |
Oshkosh | Large Queen Anne house designed by Waters and built in 1888 for Richard W. Guenther, a Prussian immigrant, Oshkosh druggist, Wisconsin state treasurer, US Congressman, and diplomat. From 1906 to 1913 the large house also hosted the new Lakeside Sanitorium and Training School for Nurses, which later evolved into Mercy Medical Center. |
| 30 | Frank Winchester Hawks House |
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(#97000430) |
433 E. Wisconsin Ave. 44°10′57″N 88°27′14″W / 44.1825°N 88.453889°W |
Neenah | Shingle-style home built in 1904. Frank was an Indiana furniture manufacturer who married Helen Howard, and joined her father's paper-making business. Their son, film director Howard Hawks, spent part of his boyhood in the house. |
| 31 | Jessie Jack Hooper House |
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(#78000151) |
1149 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′52″N 88°33′20″W / 44.031111°N 88.555556°W |
Oshkosh | Home of women's suffrage leader Jessie Jack Hooper. The house and matching coach house are Shingle style, designed by Waters and built in 1888. Her husband Benjamin was a grocery wholesaler. Jessie also organized women's war work during World War I, presided over the Wisconsin League of Women Voters in the 20s, and was involved in anti-war campaigns in the 30s. |
| 32 | Irving-Church Historic District |
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(#94000156) |
Roughly bounded by W. Irving Ave., Franklin St., Church Ave., Wisconsin St., and Amherst Ave. 44°01′23″N 88°32′45″W / 44.023056°N 88.545833°W |
Oshkosh | Large residential district of homes built from 1858 to 1938, dominated by Queen Anne homes like the 1880 Edward Jones house. Other styles are represented, including the 1878 Italianate Rogers house, the 1900 NeoClassical Radford house, the 1914 Craftsman/Prairie Style Davis house, the 1921 Mediterranean Revival Foster house, the 1924 Clark(?) Bungalow, and the 1938 Tudor Revival Zielke house. |
| 33 | Ellis Jennings House |
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(#92000110) |
711 E. Forest Ave. 44°11′24″N 88°26′54″W / 44.19°N 88.448333°W |
Neenah | Queen Anne home designed by Waters and built in 1893. Jennings was a partner in a small lumber business. |
| 34 | Rev. Jens N. Jersild House |
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(#03000898) |
331 E. Wisconsin Ave. 44°11′03″N 88°27′24″W / 44.184072°N 88.456667°W |
Neenah | Queen Anne house with Colonial Revival veranda, built in 1886. Danish immigrant Jersild was a Lutheran minister who was a key player in a doctrinal battle that split the Danish Lutheran Church of America. He was also a publisher, and founder of the Jersild Knitting Company. |
| 35 | Kamrath Site |
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(#75000085) |
Address Restricted |
Winneconne | Paleo-Indian and Archaic archaeological site, which has produced many rhyolite adzes. |
| 36 | Judge J.C. Kerwin House |
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(#96000907) |
516 E. Forest Ave. 44°11′26″N 88°26′58″W / 44.190556°N 88.449444°W |
Neenah | Queen Anne house with Georgian Revival influences built in 1885. Kerwin was a son of Menasha who successfully opposed railroad and utility interests as a local attorney, served as Neenah city attorney, on the UW Board of Regents, and on the state Supreme Court. |
| 37 | Kimberly Point Park Lighthouse |
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(#12001275) |
290 Lake Shore Ave. 44°11′08″N 88°26′30″W / 44.185612°N 88.441671°W |
Neenah | A gift from J. C. Kimberly, built in 1945 to serve as a rest stop, a guide into Neenah harbor, and a landmark for boat races. Also known as Neenah Light. |
| 38 | Carl Koch Block |
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(#86001539) |
2 Tayco St. 44°11′56″N 88°27′11″W / 44.198889°N 88.453056°W |
Menasha | Elegant brick commercial building built in 1882 in the business district near the Butte des Morts Bridge. The first floor housed a saloon and Bavarian immigrant Koch's own dry goods store. Koch lived on the second floor and rented out an apartment there. |
| 39 | Larson Brothers Airport |
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(#84003825) |
Highway 150 44°12′10″N 88°38′19″W / 44.202778°N 88.638611°W |
Clayton | Early Wisconsin airport, opened in 1922 by the four Larson brothers, with the original sod landing field and a hangar constructed with barn-building techniques. The Larsons were the first agency in Wisconsin to sell government-approved planes. |
| 40 | Lasley's Point Site |
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(#79000120) |
5900 Lasley Point Road Coordinates missing |
Winneconne | This site of an Oneota village from 1200 to 1500 AD contained garden beds, cache pits, bone tools, shells, human bones, copper flakes, charcoal and pottery. |
| 41 | Perry Lindsley House |
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(#03000899) |
1102 E. Forest Ave. 44°11′33″N 88°26′36″W / 44.1925°N 88.443333°W |
Neenah | Modest but classic 1893 Shingle-style home designed by Waters. |
| 42 | Robert Lutz House |
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(#82000734) |
1449 Knapp St. 44°00′17″N 88°33′47″W / 44.004722°N 88.563056°W |
Oshkosh | 1910 limestone Queen Anne/eclectic house with porte-cochere, designed by Waters. Also a matching brick barn built in 1925 for Lutz's Belgians, and a pigeon coop. The limestone came from Lutz's quarry nearby. He also helped found the State Bank of Oshkosh. |
| 43 | Mayer-Banderob House |
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(#99001174) |
809 Ceape Ave. 44°00′53″N 88°31′36″W / 44.014722°N 88.526667°W |
Oshkosh | Brick Italianate home built around 1868 for Bavarian immigrant George Mayer, the first jeweler in Oshkosh. John Banderob lived in the house from 1890 to 1921. He was also a German immigrant, Civil War veteran, furniture manufacturer, and progressive six-term mayor of Oshkosh. |
| 44 | Menasha Dam |
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(#93001330) |
Fox River at Mill St. 44°11′58″N 88°26′48″W / 44.199444°N 88.446667°W |
Menasha | 402 foot concrete dam rebuilt in 1937 to replace earlier wooden dams. All were built as part of the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, to flood the Menasha lock and raise or lower boats between Lake Winnebago and Little Lake Butte des Morts. |
| 45 | Menasha Lock Site |
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(#93001323) |
Address Restricted |
Menasha | |
| 46 | Metzig Garden Site (47WN283) |
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(#88003070) |
Address Restricted |
Wolf River | Paleo-indian archeological site which has produced two distinct types of early projectile points, and hints at their sequencing. |
| 47 | John R. Morgan House |
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(#83004365) |
234 Church Ave. 44°01′17″N 88°33′13″W / 44.021389°N 88.553611°W |
Oshkosh | Elaborate Queen Anne home with octagonal tower, designed and built by Bell and Cole of Oshkosh in 1884. Morgan was an immigrant from Wales, a civic leader, and a principal of Morgan Brothers, a large sash, door and blind company. |
| 48 | Neenah United States Post Office |
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(#90001743) |
307 S. Commercial St. 44°11′06″N 88°27′48″W / 44.1849°N 88.4633°W |
Neenah | Georgian Revival post office with fanlight and palladian window, built 1916-18. |
| 49 | North Main Street Bungalow Historic District |
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(#13000783) |
North Main St. generally bounded by Nevada & Huron Aves. 44°02′14″N 88°32′15″W / 44.037118°N 88.537619°W |
Oshkosh | Neighborhood of homes constructed from 1908 to 1930, predominantly Craftsman bungalows built by middle-class carpenters, railroad men, machinists, salesmen, etc. |
| 50 | North Main Street Historic District |
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(#96000250) |
Roughly N. Main St. from Parkway Ave. to Algoma Boulevard, and Market St. northwest to High Ave. 44°01′11″N 88°32′16″W / 44.019722°N 88.537778°W |
Oshkosh | The old commercial downtown of Oshkosh, rebuilt after the fires of 1874 and 1875 in brick to replace the previous wood buildings. Notable examples of different styles include the Waters-designed 1876 Italianate Beckwith House Hotel, the 1895 Queen Anne Webster Block, the 1907 Soldiers Monument at Market and High Ave., the 1926 Modern Broadfront-styled Foute-Slate Auto Company, and the 1927 Neo-Gothic/Art Deco Raulf Hotel. |
| 51 | Omro Downtown Historic District |
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(#96000248) |
Junction of Main St. and S. Webster Ave. 44°02′22″N 88°44′41″W / 44.039444°N 88.744722°W |
Omro | Omro's old commercial downtown, including the 1871 Race Hardware store Building, the 1874 Northwestern Hotel, the 1881 Frank Building, the 1894 I.O.O.F. Building, the 1890-95 Earl & McGuire grocery building, and the 1927 Anton Bank Meat Market. |
| 52 | Omro High School, Annex and Webster Manual Training School |
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(#85001369) |
515 S. Webster St. 44°02′07″N 88°44′43″W / 44.035278°N 88.745278°W |
Omro | The old middle-school complex, consisting of the Romanesque Revival/Italianate high school built 1893 and 1909, the 1906 Romanesque Webster building, and the Annex built in 1934. The Webster Manual Training School was one of the early vocational-ed schools in the state. |
| 53 | Omro Village Hall and Engine House |
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(#97000327) |
144 E. Main St. 44°02′21″N 88°44′37″W / 44.039167°N 88.743611°W |
Omro | Late Victorian municipal building with a 3.5 (or 5?) story tower, designed by Fred G. Root and built in 1896 to house Omro's village offices, fire department, and jail. Now houses the museum. |
| 54 | Orville Beach Memorial Manual Training School |
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(#85002334) |
240 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′11″N 88°32′25″W / 44.019722°N 88.540278°W |
Oshkosh | Built in 1911, this was one of the earliest vocational-tech schools in Wisconsin. Building is a 3-story Neoclassical design of Waters. Orville ran lumber mills, was involved in banks, and helped found the Oshkosh and Mississippi Railroad. His wife Helen gave the city a large endowment to found the school. |
| 55 | Oshkosh Grand Opera House |
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(#74000144) |
100 High Ave. 44°01′02″N 88°32′19″W / 44.017222°N 88.538611°W |
Oshkosh | Cream-brick Victorian opera house designed by Waters and built in 1883, hosting Caruso, the Barrymores, James Whitcomb Riley, Jenny Lind, Mark Twain, and others. Converted to a movie theater in 1949, and restored to a live theater in the 1980s. |
| 56 | Oshkosh State Normal School Historic District |
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(#84000722) |
Buildings at 800, 842, and 912 Algoma Boulevard, and 845 Elmwood Ave. 44°01′45″N 88°33′04″W / 44.029167°N 88.551111°W |
Oshkosh | Buildings of the old teachers training school, including the 1912 Industrial Education Building and the 1917 Administration and Science Building designed by Van Ryn & DeGelleke, and the 1926 Swart Training School designed by Arthur Peabody, along with the Oviatt house described elsewhere on this page. |
| 57 | Overton Archeological District |
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(#75000086) |
Address Restricted |
Oshkosh | |
| 58 | Oviatt House |
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(#79000121) |
842 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′38″N 88°33′06″W / 44.027222°N 88.551667°W |
Oshkosh | Victorian house with an exterior of rough blue limestone and corner tower, designed by Waters and built in 1882 for Moses Hooper. Hooper was an Oshkosh attorney who represented Kimberly-Clark among others, and was such an authority on riparian rights that he appeared before the US Supreme Court repeatedly. In 1900 the house was bought by Dr. Charles Oviatt, a noted surgeon who insisted that nuns assisting in surgery wear sterilized garb rather than woolen habits, and eventually received a letter of agreement from Pope Leo XIII. |
| 59 | Henry Paepke House |
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(#87000462) |
251 E. Doty Ave. 44°11′01″N 88°27′30″W / 44.183611°N 88.458333°W |
Neenah | 1885 house built by Paepke himself in Stick style, which is unusual in the Fox valley. Paepke was a German immigrant building contractor who worked on St. Mary's Catholic Church of Menasha and Menasha City Hall. |
| 60 | Paine Art Center and Arboretum |
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(#78000152) |
1410 Algoma Boulevard 44°02′07″N 88°33′30″W / 44.035278°N 88.558333°W |
Oshkosh | Rambling English-like country house with gardens, designed in Tudor Revival style by Bryant Fleming and built from 1927 to 1947 by lumberman Nathan Paine as a home, and as a gift to his community. Now an art museum and arboretum. |
| 61 | Paine Lumber Company Historic District |
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(#86001392) |
Off Congress Ave. roughly between High, New York, and Summit Aves., and a Paine Lumber access road 44°02′01″N 88°33′51″W / 44.033611°N 88.564167°W |
Oshkosh | Edward Paine founded a lumber mill here on the east bank of the Fox in 1853. His sons and grandson developed the enterprise, steering it through the Oshkosh Woodworkers Strike of 1898 and growing it into the largest sash and door company in the world in 1929. Remnants include row houses for workers, a company bank, and the dockwall along the river. |
| 62 | William E. Pollock Residence |
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(#84000728) |
765 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′31″N 88°33′04″W / 44.025278°N 88.551111°W |
Oshkosh | Spanish-Mediterranean Revival home completed in 1920 by Fluor Brothers of Oshkosh for Pollock, who headed Oshkosh Overall Co, which would become Oshkosh B'Gosh. Pollock later donated it to the Teachers College and it has served as dormitory etc, but remains well-preserved. |
| 63 | Read School |
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(#93000025) |
1120 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′52″N 88°33′16″W / 44.031111°N 88.554444°W |
Oshkosh | Public school built in phases, with the first High Victorian Italianate sections designed by Waters and built in 1879, 1893 and 1907, and other sections built later. George Read was Superintendent of Schools at the time. |
| 64 | Riverside Cemetery |
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(#03000578) |
1901 Algoma Boulevard 44°02′48″N 88°33′58″W / 44.046667°N 88.566111°W |
Oshkosh | Large old cemetery begun in 1855 along the Fox River, with a 1921 Richardsonian Romanesque chapel, a G.A.R. veterans plot, a Masonic section, a potter's field, and family mausoleums in various styles. |
| 65 | Security Bank |
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(#94001212) |
903 Oregon St. 44°00′37″N 88°32′34″W / 44.010278°N 88.542778°W |
Oshkosh | Brick and limestone bank designed by Oshkosh architect Julius Dreger in NeoClassical style and built by C.R. Meyer and Sons in 1926-27, with a 20-foot vault from the Mosler Safe Company. |
| 66 | J. Leslie Sensenbrenner House |
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(#03000897) |
256 N. Park Ave. 44°11′13″N 88°26′42″W / 44.186944°N 88.445°W |
Neenah | The Cape-Cod styled core was built in 1932 by Menasha industrialist George Gaylord, then extensively remodeled and expanded by Sensenbrenner in 1941 in various period revival styles. Sensenbrenner and his father were executives at Kimberly-Clark. |
| 67 | Franklyn C. Shattuck House |
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(#78000153) |
547 E. Wisconsin Ave. 44°10′51″N 88°27′02″W / 44.180833°N 88.450556°W |
Neenah | Georgian Revival home with porte cochere designed by Ferry & Clas and built 1890-93. Shattuck was a founder of Kimberly-Clark. His son Arthur was a well-known concert pianist. Daniel Brown, president of the Neenah Paper Company, later lived in the house. |
| 68 | Henry Sherry House |
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(#99001607) |
527 E. Wisconsin Ave. 44°11′00″N 88°27′06″W / 44.183333°N 88.451667°W |
Neenah | Home with 4-story tower and porte cochere, designed by Waters in High Victorian Gothic style with some Queen Anne decoration and built in 1883. Sherry was a lumberman with interests in northeastern and central Wisconsin. The house was later the home of Hugh Strange of the Strange Lumber Company. |
| 69 | Charles R. Smith House |
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(#79000122) |
824 E. Forest Ave. 44°11′26″N 88°26′42″W / 44.190556°N 88.445°W |
Neenah | Rambling mansion begun by Smith in 1890 and later expanded with various pavilions and porches with Queen Anne, Italianate, and Colonial Revival features. Charles was a son of Elisha Smith, founder of Menasha Wooden Ware, and expanded, modernized, and diversified the company when he took over. For his second wife, Smith got the town of Warner renamed Ladysmith, and after Charles died, that wife married the silent movie actor Orrin Johnson, who retired to the mansion. |
| 70 | Henry Spencer Smith House |
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(#82000735) |
706 E. Forest Ave. 44°11′27″N 88°26′47″W / 44.190833°N 88.446389°W |
Neenah | Another Smith mansion, started in 1892 and expanded by another son of Elisha Smith and executive of Menasha Wooden Ware. Included music room, conservatory, 3-story tower, and third floor ballroom. At least partly designed by Waters. |
| 71 | Hiram Smith House |
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(#96000990) |
336 Main St. 44°11′10″N 88°28′07″W / 44.186111°N 88.468611°W |
Neenah | 2-story brick octagon house with Italianate styling and rear wing, built between 1851 and 1854. Hiram ran a dry goods business, started an early paper company with his brother in 1865, and was president of the Manufacturer's Bank. |
| 72 | Tayco Street Bridge |
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(#86001182) |
Tayco and Water Sts. 44°11′54″N 88°27′09″W / 44.198333°N 88.4525°W |
Menasha | Drawbridge across the Government Canal, specifically a Strauss Trunnion bascule bridge with Classical styling, designed by McMahon & Clark Engineering of Menasha and built 1928-29. |
| 73 | Trinity Episcopal Church |
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(#74000145) |
203 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′08″N 88°32′24″W / 44.018889°N 88.54°W |
Oshkosh | Richardsonian Romanesque church designed by Waters and built 1887-89, with a large round Tiffany stained glass window portraying "The Angel of Prayer". |
| 74 | Upper Main Street Historic District |
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(#84000714) |
163-240 Main, 3 Mill, 56 Racine, and 408 Water Sts. 44°12′04″N 88°26′51″W / 44.201111°N 88.4475°W |
Menasha | Old downtown, including the 1884 High Victorian Scott Block and Planner's Block, the 1892 Clovis Block, the 1894 Queen Anne-styled Masonic Block, the 1895 Romanesque Revival Beck's Meat Market, the 1897 Neoclassical Elisha D. Smith Library, and the 1905 Waters-designed Hotel Menasha. |
| 75 | US Post Office-Menasha |
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(#86001518) |
84 Racine St. 44°12′08″N 88°26′47″W / 44.202222°N 88.446389°W |
Menasha | Colonial Revival post office with atypical mansard roof, built in 1931. |
| 76 | Dewitt Clinton Van Ostrand House |
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(#96001575) |
413 Church St. 44°11′05″N 88°27′53″W / 44.184722°N 88.464722°W |
Neenah | 2-story brick Italianate house started between 1855 and 1861. Van Ostrand was a pioneer businessman, involved in rocking chair manufacture, shipping, retail dry goods, flour milling, paper manufacture, stove manufacture, and banking. In the late 1860s, Van Ostrand's and Hiram Smith's Neenah Paper Company was one of the first to show the Fox Valley's potential for making paper. |
| 77 | Gorham P. Vining House |
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(#83004366) |
1590 Oakridge Rd. 44°11′06″N 88°29′57″W / 44.185°N 88.499167°W |
Neenah | Well-preserved Greek Revival home with summer kitchen, built in 1848. Vining from Massachusetts, was an early settler of the Neenah area. |
| 78 | Thomas R. Wall Residence |
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(#84000732) |
751 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′30″N 88°33′02″W / 44.025°N 88.550556°W |
Oshkosh | 1898 home designed by Waters in a blend of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles for Wall, a businessman with interests in lumber, steamships, and banking. Later owned by Morgan Davies of Morgan Sash and Door, then John Bartlett of Oshkosh Trunk, then UW-Oshkosh. |
| 79 | Washington Avenue Historic District |
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(#86001129) |
Roughly bounded by Merritt Ave., Linde and Lampert Sts., Washington Ave., and Bowen and Evan Sts. 44°01′06″N 88°31′20″W / 44.018333°N 88.522222°W |
Oshkosh | Large, mainly residential district on the east side, including the 1870 Italianate Weisbrod house, the 1885 Queen Anne Roenitz house, the 1897 Queen Anne Buckstaff house pictured at left, the 1903 Georgian Revival Oshkosh Yacht Club, the 1904 Colonial Revival Schmidt house, the 1911 Schwalm bungalow, the 1927 English Cottage-style Meusel house, and the 1929 Tudor Revival Stephenson house. |
| 80 | Washington Street Historic District |
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(#86001180) |
214-216 Washington St. 44°11′43″N 88°27′15″W / 44.195278°N 88.454167°W |
Menasha | Consists of the 1930 Northwest Electrotype & Engraving Office & Plant (pictured) and the 1935 Verbrick's Gas Station. Both are in Tudor Revival style, part of an effort by Menasha Wooden Ware Corp. to redevelop its stave yards on Doty Island into an "English-styled" commercial district. |
| 81 | S.H. Waterman House |
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(#93000068) |
1141 Algoma Boulevard 44°01′52″N 88°33′21″W / 44.031111°N 88.555833°W |
Oshkosh | Large Queen Anne house with Eastlake ornamentation (e.g. delicate, turned spindle-work) built in 1889, with 2-story carriage house. Waterman was a lumberman. |
| 82 | Frank Whiting Boathouse |
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(#11000204) |
98 5th St. 44°11′08″N 88°26′59″W / 44.185556°N 88.449722°W |
Neenah | Spanish Revival-styled boathouse with rooftop dancing pavilion, where Whiting hosted yachting and tennis parties. Designed by Richard Messmer and built in 1932. Donated to the city after Whiting's death. |
| 83 | Frank B. Whiting House |
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(#00000523) |
620 E. Forest Ave. 44°11′34″N 88°26′53″W / 44.192778°N 88.448056°W |
Neenah | Queen Anne-style home built in 1885 for David Barnes, with 2-story carriage house. Whiting remodeled the house and installed a secret liquor vault during Prohibition. He led the Wisconsin River operations of his father's Whiting Paper Co. and promoted air travel in the Fox Valley. |
| 84 | William C. Wing House |
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(#93000400) |
143 N. Park Ave. 44°10′52″N 88°26′44″W / 44.181111°N 88.445556°W |
Neenah | 2-story French Renaissance-styled house overlooking Lake Winnebago, designed by Childs & Smith and built in 1918 for George Gaylord of the Menasha Carton Company and Menasha Paper Company. Later bought by William Wing of the Fox River Paper Company. |
| 85 | Winnebago County Courthouse |
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(#82000736) |
415 Jackson St. 44°01′17″N 88°32′35″W / 44.021389°N 88.543056°W |
Oshkosh | 5-story Moderne-styled courthouse designed by Frank Venning of Granger & Bollenbacher of Chicago. |
| 86 | Wisconsin Avenue Historic District |
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(#84003827) |
106-226 W. Wisconsin Ave. and 110 Church St. 44°11′14″N 88°27′47″W / 44.187222°N 88.463056°W |
Neenah | The old commercial heart of Neenah, including the 1858 Wheeler & Leavens Block, a.k.a. Sorenson & Son Furniture, the 1866 Jandrey dry good store, the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Sherry's Post Office Block, the 1894 Romanesque-styled Winnebago Paper Company Office, and the 1934 Art Deco Northwestern Distributing Company Store and Manufactury. |
| 87 | Wisconsin National Life Insurance Building |
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(#82000737) |
220 Washington Ave. 44°01′04″N 88°32′03″W / 44.017778°N 88.534167°W |
Oshkosh | Neoclassical office building with four colossal columns in front, decorated with relief sculpture. Designed by Auler and Jensen and built in 1927. Used by Winnebago County in 2008. |
Former listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amos House |
(#82000730) |
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1157 High Ave. |
Oshkosh | Greek Revival home with a full one-story porch, built in 1866. Frank Amos was a teamster and partner in lumber companies. | |
| 2 | Buckstaff Observatory |
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(#79000119) |
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2119 N. Main St. 44°02′38″N 88°32′18″W / 44.043889°N 88.538333°W |
Oshkosh | Private observatory built around 1924 by amateur astronomer Ralph Buckstaff of Buckstaff Furniture, from which he studied sunspots, discovered the variable star Yi 1256, and took observations for the US Weather Service for over 50 years. Dismantled and moved in 2011. |
| 3 | Menasha City Hall |
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(#84003826) |
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124 Main St. |
Menasha | Late Victorian Gothic public building designed by Charles Hove and built in 1885. Initially housed city offices, fire department, jail and council chambers. Demolished in 1988. |
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