National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, Wisconsin
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Grant County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.[1]
There are 39 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted June 14, 2024.[2]
Current listings
[3] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed[4] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Agriculture and Manual Arts Building/Platteville State Normal School
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March 14, 1985 (#85000578) |
Univ. of WI, Platteville 42°44′03″N 90°29′10″W / 42.734167°N 90.486111°W | Platteville |
Designed by | |
2 | L. J. Arthur House | September 5, 1985 (#85001951) |
210 N. Jefferson St. 42°50′57″N 90°42′39″W / 42.849167°N 90.710833°W | Lancaster |
2-story red brick Victorian home built in 1880 for Arthur, an attorney. Bought in 1889 by local merchant Charles Basford.[7][8] | |
3 | James Ballantine House | June 7, 1976 (#76000062) |
720 North 4th Street 42°53′16″N 90°55′34″W / 42.887778°N 90.926111°W | Bloomington |
1877 brick Italianate house with two 2-story bay windows. After losing a leg, James lent money and raised plants and livestock. His house is little changed, since it stood vacant from the death of his wife Abbie in 1937 until 1975.[9][10] | |
4 | Bass Site (47Gt25) | September 9, 1982 (#82000669) |
Address Restricted | Lancaster |
Site on a ridge where | |
5 | Bayley Avenue Historic District | July 19, 2007 (#07000708) |
100-400 Bayley Av., 400 Blk. S Court St., 150, 210, 270 Rountree Av. & 65 Mitchell Av. 42°43′52″N 90°28′46″W / 42.731111°N 90.479444°W | Platteville |
J.H. Rountree, founder of Platteville, built his | |
6 | Beebe House | August 7, 1979 (#79000078) |
390 W. Adams St. 42°44′19″N 90°28′49″W / 42.738611°N 90.480278°W | Platteville |
2-story Victorian Gothic home built in 1870, clad with local brick. Captain William Beebe was a New York native, a Civil War vet, a lawyer, mayor of Platteville, and an inventor. By 1877 he had an electrical telephone communicating between Platteville and Lancaster, only a year after Alexander Graham Bell's first long-distance line.[18][19]
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7 | Bode-Wad-Mi Rockshelter | June 23, 1995 (#95000760) |
Address Restricted | Castle Rock |
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8 | Boscobel Grand Army of the Republic Hall | December 27, 2007 (#07001329) |
102 Mary Street 43°07′55″N 90°42′23″W / 43.131944°N 90.706389°W | Boscobel |
Originally a Still in use as a meeting hall and museum. | |
9 | Boscobel High School | December 30, 1986 (#86003518) |
207 Buchanan Street 43°07′59″N 90°42′11″W / 43.133056°N 90.703056°W | Boscobel |
3-story Romanesque Revival building clad in local limestone, with a 4-story tower, designed by Van Ryn & DeGelleke and built in 1898. Now called Rock School.[21][22]
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10 | Central House Hotel | November 27, 1996 (#96001361) |
1005 Wisconsin Avenue 43°08′04″N 90°42′20″W / 43.134444°N 90.705556°W | Boscobel |
3-story Gideons (which places Bibles in hotel rooms) was conceived here in 1898 when two businessmen shared room 19.[23]
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11 | Leonard and Caroline Coates House | October 4, 2021 (#100007031) |
250 Southwest Rd. 42°41′48″N 90°30′14″W / 42.6968°N 90.5040°W | Platteville |
Brick Italianate-style house built in 1868 by Coates, a miner from Yorkshire who moved into the lead smelting business and served Platteville as mayor and by helping bring the railroad.[24] | |
12 | Courthouse Square Historical District | April 7, 2006 (#06000233) |
Cherry, Jefferson, Madison, and Maple Sts. 42°50′51″N 90°42′36″W / 42.8475°N 90.71°W | Lancaster |
Intact historic downtown centered around the courthouse, including the 1868 Commercial Vernacular-styled Wright House Hotel, Romanesque Revival Reed Opera House,[27] the 1901 Richardsonian Romanesque I.O.O.F. Hall (pictured),[28] the 1903 Neoclassical First National Bank of Lancaster,[29] and the 1904 Queen Anne Louis Alt Building.[30][31]
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13 | Edward and Mary Davies House | June 6, 2023 (#100009038) |
315 North 2nd St. 42°44′11″N 90°28′34″W / 42.7365°N 90.4760°W | Platteville |
Modest 2-story brick house with the massing and simple window trim of Greek Revival style, built in 1864 for Welsh immigrant blacksmith Edward Davies, and little changed since then.[32]
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14 | Denniston House | February 20, 1975 (#75000213) |
117 E. Front St 42°42′45″N 90°59′25″W / 42.7125°N 90.990278°W | Cassville |
Brick hotel built in 1836 in hopes that Cassville would become the capital of Wisconsin Territory. Wisconsin's first governor Nelson Dewey lived here and died in 1889, after his financial ruin.[33][34] | |
15 | Division Street Historic District | July 19, 2007 (#07000709) |
200-300 Blk. Division St., 145, 170, 175, 190, 195, 220 S Chestnut St. 42°43′57″N 90°28′54″W / 42.7325°N 90.481667°W | Platteville |
Small residential historic district, including the 1895 Gabled Ell Nicklas house,[35] 1906 Queen Anne Robinson house,[36] the 1908 Queen Anne/American Foursquare Barden house,[37] and the 1905 American Foursquare Grindell house.[38][39] | |
16 | Eagle Valley Mound District | July 11, 2001 (#01000736) |
Address Restricted | Glen Haven |
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17 | Jonathan H. Evans House | June 1, 1982 (#82000670) |
440 W. Adams St. 42°44′20″N 90°28′53″W / 42.738889°N 90.481389°W | Platteville |
1870 home which mixes elements of Italianate design with Queen Anne. Evans was a school teacher, storekeeper, civic leader, bank organizer, and an early shaper of Wisconsin's normal school system.[40][41] | |
18 | First Congregational Church | June 19, 1985 (#85001359) |
80 Market 42°44′09″N 90°28′42″W / 42.735833°N 90.478333°W | Platteville |
Red-brick Congregationals.[42]
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19 | German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace | April 25, 2022 (#100007631) |
350 East Furnace St. 42°44′04″N 90°28′21″W / 42.7345°N 90.4725°W | Platteville |
Lutherans. Now the oldest surviving church building in Platteville.[43]
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20 | Grant County Courthouse | October 19, 1978 (#78000096) |
126 W. Main St. 42°50′51″N 90°42′36″W / 42.8475°N 90.71°W | Lancaster |
3-story courthouse with glass and copper dome, designed by Armand D. Koch of Milwaukee in Neoclassical style and built in 1902.[44] | |
21 | Hazel Green Town Hall | January 26, 1989 (#88003231) |
2130 N. Main St. 42°32′00″N 90°26′05″W / 42.533333°N 90.434722°W | Hazel Green |
1891 Town Clerk's office and a civic auditorium which hosted dances, church functions, vaudeville acts, patent medicine peddlers, commencements, movies, and a jail.[45]
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22 | Hog Hollow Site | May 10, 1996 (#96000496) |
Address Restricted | Potosi |
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23 | Patrick and Margaret Kinney House | March 6, 2008 (#08000160) |
424 N. Fillmore St. 42°51′06″N 90°43′10″W / 42.851667°N 90.719444°W | Lancaster |
Limestone clad home built for Patrick Kinney, a successful Lancaster attorney, his wife, Margaret, and their growing family, in 1951-1953 from a design supplied by Frank Lloyd Wright.[46] | |
24 | Lancaster Municipal Building | March 10, 1983 (#83003397) |
206 S. Madison St. 42°50′51″N 90°42′33″W / 42.8475°N 90.709167°W | Lancaster |
Brick Claude & Starck and build in 1923. Originally housed city offices, fire department, and 800-seat theater.[47]
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25 | Lancaster Post Office | October 24, 2000 (#00001245) |
236 W. Maple St. 42°50′52″N 90°42′43″W / 42.847778°N 90.711944°W | Lancaster |
Simplified Art Moderne post office built in 1938, containing a mural "Farm Yard" painted by Tom Rost in 1940 and supported by the New Deal Public Works of Art Project.[48][49]
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26 | Main Street Commercial Historic District | March 9, 1990 (#90000377) |
Roughly bounded by Chestnut, Furnace, Bonson, Mineral, Oak, and Pine 42°44′04″N 90°28′42″W / 42.734444°N 90.478333°W | Platteville |
Includes the area of Platteville's early business districts on Second Street and Main, platted like an English village with narrow streets, narrow lots, and a village green. Carnegie Library,[56] the 1924 Neoclassical First National Bank,[57] and the 1938 Art Deco Municipal Building.[58]
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27 | Mitchell-Rountree House | February 23, 1972 (#72000052) |
Jewett and Lancaster Sts. 42°44′29″N 90°28′57″W / 42.741389°N 90.4825°W | Platteville |
Early 1.5-story cottage built of carefully fit dolomite for Rev. Samuel Mitchell in a style from his native Virginia. Mitchell had served in the Revolutionary War. John Rountree, founder of Platteville, married Mitchell's daughter, probably built the house, and Rountrees lived there for many years.[59][60] | |
28 | Dwight T. Parker Public Library | March 10, 1983 (#83003398) |
925 Lincoln Ave. 42°59′00″N 90°39′18″W / 42.983333°N 90.655°W | Fennimore |
1923 library building donated by local banker Parker and designed by | |
29 | Potosi Badger Huts Site | December 27, 1996 (#96001532) |
.5 mi. SW of jct. of WI 133 and WI U 42°41′10″N 90°42′45″W / 42.686111°N 90.7125°W | Potosi |
Lead-mining site on a ridge from at least 1833, consisting of the remains of two structures, over 100 test pits, and a possible adit. Possibly the only site of its kind remaining from the era.[63] | |
30 | Potosi Brewery | November 19, 1980 (#80000138) |
Main St. 42°40′37″N 90°43′32″W / 42.676944°N 90.725556°W | Potosi |
Limestone brewing plant begun by Gabriel Hail in 1852, and expanded over the years by the Schumachers. Once the 5th largest brewery in Wisconsin. Now a museum.[64] | |
31 | Rock School and Hanmer Robbins School Complex | June 28, 2023 (#100009102) |
405 East Main St. 42°43′58″N 90°28′22″W / 42.7328°N 90.4729°W | Platteville |
The Rock School was built 1858-63, a 2-story structure with walls of coursed limestone and roof and window treatments in Greek Revival style.[65] The Hanmer Robbins School is a 2-story Richardsonian Romanesque high school built around 1905. Both are now part of a museum complex.[66]
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32 | Rountree Hall | December 17, 1974 (#74000091) |
30 North Elm St. 42°44′07″N 90°28′53″W / 42.735278°N 90.481389°W | Platteville |
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33 | J. H. Rountree Mansion | June 13, 1986 (#86001307) |
150 Rountree Ave. 42°43′56″N 90°28′41″W / 42.732222°N 90.478056°W | Platteville |
2-story brick mansion built in | |
34 | St. John Mine | June 4, 1979 (#79000079) |
WI 133 42°41′10″N 90°42′56″W / 42.686111°N 90.715556°W | Potosi |
Natural cave where Native Americans and the French dug galena as early as 1700. Around 1828 Willis St. John began mining the veins that ran back into the hillside. He was broke by 1848 and sold the mine to Nelson Dewey and Henry Massey, who closed it, exhausted, in 1870.[70] | |
35 | Stonefield | May 19, 1970 (#70000034) |
2.5 mi. W of Cassville, on CR VV 42°44′03″N 91°01′18″W / 42.734167°N 91.021667°W | Cassville |
Farm/estate on a hillside above the Mississippi, started by Nelson Dewey in the 1860s after he was Wisconsin's first governor, with original Gothic Revival outbuildings. Now a museum, with agricultural museum and recreated farming village.[71][72] | |
36 | Trinity Episcopal Church | June 20, 2023 (#100009063) |
250 Market St. 42°44′09″N 90°28′48″W / 42.7359°N 90.4801°W | Platteville |
Very-intact brick church designed by Garry Nettleton in | |
37 | West Main Street Historic District | July 19, 2007 (#07000710) |
Roughly bounded by N & S Elm, W Pine, N & S Hickory & W Mineral Sts. 42°44′06″N 90°28′55″W / 42.7349°N 90.4819°W | Platteville |
Old residential district, including the 1847 | |
38 | Wyalusing State Park Mounds Archeological District | September 21, 1999 (#99001175) |
13342 Cty. Hwy. C 42°58′52″N 91°06′42″W / 42.981111°N 91.111667°W | Bagley |
Conical, linear and effigy mounds, many arranged in lines, on bluffs above the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, built by Middle and Late Woodland people.[81][82] | |
39 | John Young House | September 26, 1994 (#94001157) |
323 S. Wisconsin Ave. 43°10′57″N 90°26′35″W / 43.1825°N 90.443056°W | Muscoda |
2.5 story Queen Anne-styled house built in 1900 by John and Charles Wade for Young, a German immigrant, Civil War veteran, and Muscoda lumber dealer.[83][84] |
See also
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- List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin
- Listings in neighboring counties: Clayton (IA), Crawford, Dubuque (IA), Iowa, Jo Daviess (IL), Lafayette, Richland
References
- ^ The latitude and longitude information provided is primarily from the National Register Information System, and has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. For 1%, the location info may be way off. We seek to correct the coordinate information wherever it is found to be erroneous. Please leave a note in the Discussion page for this article if you believe any specific location is incorrect.
- ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved June 14, 2024.
- ^ Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ^ "Agriculture and Manual Arts Bldg/Platteville St. Normal Sch". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
- ^ "Arthur, L.J., House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
- ^ "James Ballantine House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ Hamilton, Joseph S. "An Archaeological and Geomorphological Perspective of the Solverson Site (47VE1252), Vernon County, Wisconsin" (PDF): 430. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
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- ^ "William T. Jennings-William H. Williams House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- ^ "Albert Webster House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- ^ "W.N. Smith House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- ^ "L.A. Wills House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- ^ "Beebe House (William Homer Beebe)". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
- ^ "Boscobel High School / Old Rock High School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
- ^ "Leonard and Caroline Coates House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
- ^ "Wright House Hotel". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ "R. B. Showalter Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ "Reed's Opera House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ "IOOF Hall". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ "First National Bank of Lancaster". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ "Louis Alt Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ "Edward and Mary Davies House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
- ^ "Denniston House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ "Peter Nicklas House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ "W. J. Robinson House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ "George Barden House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ "C. C. Grindell House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ "Jonathan H. Evans House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ "German Evangelical Lutheran Church". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
- ^ "424 North Fillmore Street". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
- ^ "Lancaster Post Office". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
- ^ "William Parnell Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "Hendershot Harness Shop". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "August J. Kettler Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "George Wedige Saloon". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "Dr. and Mrs. Wilson Cunningham House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "Platteville Carnegie Library". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "First National Bank". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "Platteville Civic and Memorial Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "Mitchell-Rountree House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- ^ "Parker, Dwight T., Public Library". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
- ^ "Potosi Brewery". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
- ^ "Rock School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
- ^ "Platteville High School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
- ^ "Rountree Hall". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
- ^ "Stonefield (Nelson Dewey Home)". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
- ^ "Trinity Episcopal Church". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
- ^ "John Lewis House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ "J.L. Pickard House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ "Isaac Hodges House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ "Frank Burg Sr. House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ "Park Kelley House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ "Frank Burg, Jr. House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ISBN 0-299-16874-3.
- ^ "Wyalusing State Park - History". Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ^ "Young, John, House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
- NRHPInventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-10.