Winnebago County Courthouse (Wisconsin)
Winnebago County Courthouse | |
NRHP reference No. | 82000736[1] |
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Added to NRHP | June 23, 1982 |
The Winnebago County Courthouse is a five-story
History
The present courthouse is the third to serve Winnebago County. The first was a small wood frame structure built around 1849, and located in Oshkosh on Court Street between Otter Avenue and Ceape Street. This was augmented in 1854 with a modest brick building nearby to house the county offices. By 1859, the county had secured funds to replace these early buildings with the second courthouse, a large and ornate Cream City brick structure built on the same site in 1859-1860.[4][5]
By the 1930s, the county sought a more modern building and constructed the present courthouse at the corner of Algoma and Jackson Streets in 1937. Despite the Great Depression, the county board rejected a federal loan for the new courthouse. Even so, the building's architecture closely resembled many federal Public Works Administration projects of the same period. The architect of the courthouse was Frank Venning, of the firm Granger & Bollenbacher based in Chicago. The Lundoff-Bicknell Company was the general contractor for construction. The cost for the structure was $950,000.[3]
The fifth floor of the courthouse was originally designed to serve as the county jail and fulfilled this function until the county opened a new public safety building in 1980.[3]
Design
The courthouse has a symmetrical facade with elements characteristic of
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b "415 JACKSON ST". Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. 1 January 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ a b c d "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Winnebago County Courthouse". National Park Service. Retrieved July 3, 2022. With accompanying pictures
- ^ Harney, Richard J. (1880). History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and early history of the Northwest. Oshkosh, Wis.: Allen & Hicks. pp. 121–124. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
- ^ Lawson, Publius Virgilius (1908). History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin : its cities, towns, resources, people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper. p. 190.