National Register of Historic Places listings in Portage County, Wisconsin
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Portage County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Portage 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 19 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
- This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted October 11, 2018.[2]
Current listings
[3] | Name on the Register[4] | Image | Date listed[5] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Folding Furniture Works Building | July 29, 1993 (#93000666) |
1020 First St. 44°31′32″N 89°35′13″W / 44.525556°N 89.586944°W |
Stevens Point | The first factory here, built by John Worzalla in 1919 to build cribs and a folding children's swing that he patented, burned in 1931. He immediately rebuilt a larger, similar factory with old-fashioned clapboard siding and lots of windows for light. Later known as Lullabye Furniture Warehouse. Now apartments.[6] | |
2 | Fox Theater | July 26, 1982 (#82000698) |
1116-1128 Main St. 44°31′25″N 89°34′59″W / 44.523611°N 89.583056°W |
Stevens Point | Point's Grand Opera House was built in 1896 by G.F. Andrae, designed by Oscar Cobb in Romanesque style. It hosted charity events, theater productions, and speeches by Eugene Debs and William Jennings Bryan.[7] | |
3 | August G. and Theresa Green House | June 1, 2005 (#05000533) |
1501 Main St. 44°31′32″N 89°34′38″W / 44.525556°N 89.577222°W |
Stevens Point | Queen Anne home designed by J. H. Jeffers and built in 1903.[8] August was a Prussian immigrant who ran a meat market and lumber and coal business in Point, and invested in real estate.[9] | |
4 | Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building | December 1, 1994 (#94001358) |
1421 Strongs Ave. 44°31′19″N 89°34′55″W / 44.521944°N 89.581944°W |
Stevens Point | The Classical Revival building designed by Childs & Smith of Chicago and built in 1922 for the Hardware Mutual Fire Insurance Company and Hardware Mutual Casualty Company features carvings, paintings and designs from artists around the U.S.[10] Now houses offices of Sentry Insurance.[11] | |
5 | Hotel Whiting | September 13, 1990 (#90001457) |
1408 Strongs Ave. 44°31′19″N 89°34′57″W / 44.521944°N 89.5825°W |
Stevens Point | Mediterranean Revival-style hotel, designed by Alfred Clas and opened in 1923. Inside, a one-time bar contains murals with scenes from local history painted by local artist John Pfiffner in 1946.[12][13] Now apartments and offices. | |
6 | J. L. Jensen House | July 28, 1988 (#88001151) |
1100 Brawley St. 44°31′09″N 89°34′50″W / 44.519167°N 89.580556°W |
Stevens Point | 2.5-story exuberant Queen Anne home designed by Stevens Point architect J. H. Jeffers and built in 1901 for Jensen, who had owned a grocery store since 1881. Includes a Victorian-styled playhouse and garage.[14][15] Now a B&B.[16] | |
7 | Christina Kuhl House | January 9, 1978 (#78000126) |
1416 Main St. 44°31′25″N 89°34′41″W / 44.523611°N 89.578056°W |
Stevens Point | Second Empire house built in 1886[17] by family of cabinet-makers, brewers, and developers. | |
8 | Mathias Mitchell Public Square-Main Street Historic District | August 13, 1986 (#86001513) |
Roughly Main St. from Strongs Ave. to Second St. 44°31′24″N 89°35′04″W / 44.523333°N 89.584444°W |
Stevens Point | Point's old downtown, platted by Mitchell in 1847. He donated the square to the city,[18] and it has hosted a farmers' market since 1870.[19] Buildings include the 1864 Italianate Bank of Stevens Point,[20] the 1890 Queen Anne Ossowski Saloon/Glinski Tailor building (pictured),[21] the 1896 Romanesque J.O. Johnsen General Store,[22] the 1913 Zinda Saloon,[23] the 1915 Art Deco Shafton glassware store,[24] and the 1921 Neoclassical Citizens National Bank.[25][18] | |
9 | David McMillan House | December 16, 1974 (#74000117) |
1924 Pine St. 44°31′05″N 89°34′30″W / 44.518056°N 89.575°W |
Stevens Point | High Victorian Gothic home built in 1873.[26] McMillan brought his family west from New York in 1864 to operate a sawmill on the Plover River which supplied his lumber yard in Keokuk. His sons established the company lumber town McMillan north of Marshfield.[27] | |
10 | J. H. Morgan House | October 1, 1974 (#74000118) |
1308 Madison Ave. 44°27′21″N 89°31′42″W / 44.455833°N 89.528333°W |
Plover | Greek Revival-styled house built in 1860 by C.J. Packard, when Plover was the seat of Portage County. Possibly modeled after similar houses back in New York.[28][29] | |
11 | Nelson Hall | June 29, 2005 (#05000643) |
1209 Fremont St. 44°31′33″N 89°34′04″W / 44.525833°N 89.567778°W |
Stevens Point | First dormitory at Stevens Point Normal School, designed by Van Ryn & DeGelleke in Prairie School style and built 1915-17.[30][31] It was originally a women's dormitory, including a dining hall, kitchen, parlor, rec room, study room, and infirmary.[32] | |
12 | Old Plover Methodist Church | March 27, 1980 (#80000393) |
Madison Ave. 44°27′25″N 89°32′27″W / 44.456944°N 89.540833°W |
Plover | Oldest surviving church building in the county, built by Presbyterians, when Greek Revival style was in and Plover was the county seat. It originally had a squarish-topped steeple. Sold to Methodist congregation in 1866. Now a museum.[33][34] | |
13 | Pipe School | November 4, 1993 (#93001171) |
Jct. of Pipe Rd. and Co. Hwy. T 44°24′33″N 89°14′00″W / 44.409167°N 89.233333°W |
Lanark | Highly-intact one-room school built in 1889 with fieldstone foundation, balloon-frame structure, pressed-metal ceiling, and roof sheathed in tin.[35][36] Served as a school until 1960.[37] | |
14 | L. A. Pomeroy House | November 5, 1992 (#92001560) |
203 Laconia St. 44°27′01″N 89°17′12″W / 44.450278°N 89.286667°W |
Amherst | Very-intact 3-story Queen Anne home designed by J.H. Jeffers and built in 1904 for L.A. Pomeroy, who helped organize the International Bank in Amherst,[38] pushed on the county board for better roads, and managed the Amherst opera house.[39] | |
15 | Rising Star Flouring Mill | May 11, 2018 (#100002444) |
3190 Cty. Rd. Q 44°29′38″N 89°18′38″W / 44.4938°N 89.3105°W |
Nelsonville | Wooden gristmill built by Jerome Nelson in 1860. In early years it ground local winter wheat into flour which was sold to logging camps and other customers. Still very intact.[40][41] | |
16 | John Gilbert Rosholt House | April 27, 2010 (#10000232) |
237 N. Main St. 44°37′54″N 89°18′34″W / 44.631683°N 89.309461°W |
Rosholt | 2.5-story Queen Anne style house finished in 1906, with a garage built in 1908 when John bought his first auto. Rosholt started the sawmill and bank and was the central figure in the community's development.[42][43] | |
17 | Severance-Pipe Farmstead | October 29, 1993 (#93001163) |
Pipe Rd., 1/8 mi. E of Co. Hwy. T 44°24′39″N 89°13′54″W / 44.410833°N 89.231667°W |
Lanark | Remarkably intact old farm begun by New Hampshire immigrant John Severance, and later run by Thomas Pipe and his family for over 100 years. Structures are the balloon framed, Greek Revival-influenced farmhouse and a granary built in the 1850s, a small animal barn built around 1860, an 1880 dairy barn, an 1880 privy, a 1900 corn crib, and a 1900 garage.[44][45] | |
18 | Stevens Point State Normal School | December 12, 1976 (#76000074) |
2100 Main St. 44°31′28″N 89°34′07″W / 44.524444°N 89.568611°W |
Stevens Point | Built in 1894, the building now known as "Old Main" was at that time Wisconsin's sixth normal school. Selby and Perkins of Chicago designed the Richardsonian Romanesque-styled hall, since added to.[46][47][48] | |
19 | Temple Beth Israel | March 1, 2007 (#07000101) |
1475 Water St. 44°31′13″N 89°34′59″W / 44.520278°N 89.583056°W |
Stevens Point | Synagogue of Point's local Jewish community, built in 1905 and used through 1986. Once surrounded by a largely Jewish neighborhood. Now a museum.[49][50] |
See also
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 Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on October 11, 2018.
- ↑ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-24). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Folding Furniture Works Building". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ "Fox Theater". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
- ↑ "Theresa and August G. Green House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ Hettinga, Mary Jane (June 2004). "Green, August G. and Theresa, House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ↑ Adams, Peter J. (1993-10-25). "Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ↑ "Hardware Mutual Insurance Company Building". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ "Hotel Whiting". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
- ↑ Adams, Peter J. (1990-01-20). "Hotel Whiting". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ↑ "Jensen, John L. House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ Maher, Bonita; Maher, William (1988-01-15). "Jensen, J.L., House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "Dreams of Yesteryear - Victorian Bed & Breakfast". Retrieved 2011-10-12.
- ↑ "Christina Kuhl House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
- 1 2 Farnham, Julie; Causier, Charles; Warner, Marge (1986-07-09). "Mathias Mitchell Public Square-Main Street Historic District". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "Public Square Historical Marker". Portage County Historical Society. 1962. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ↑ "Bank of Stevens Pt; McCulloch's Bank; Commercial Bank". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "Ossowksi Saloon and Glinski Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "J.O. Johnsen General Store". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "A. Zinda Saloon/E. Razner Men's Furnishings". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "Shafton Block". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "Citizens National Bank". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "David McMillan House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ↑ Town of McMillan Centennial (1888-1988). 1988. p. 4.
- ↑ "J. H. Morgan House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ Ksicinski, Joyce (1974-02-27). "Morgan, J.H., House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ "History of UW-Stevens Point - John F. Sims". Portage County Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ "Nelson Hall". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
- ↑ Julin, Kathleen; Yonke, Eric (2004-09-28). "Nelson Hall". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ "The Old Plover Methodist Church". Portage County Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ Nelson, Wendell (January 1979). "Old Plover Methodist Church". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ "Lanark News" (PDF). Town of Lanark. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ "Pipe School". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ Cartwright, Carol Lohry (1992-07-13). "Pipe School". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ Edward McGlachlin; George W. Fleming; John G. Rosholt; John W. Glennon; Orestes A. Crowell; Steven H. Worzella; Louis A. Pomeroy, eds. (1919). A Standard History of Portage County Wisconsin. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 661.
- ↑ Maher, Bonita (1991-06-25). "Pomeroy, L.A., House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ "Rising Start Flouring Mill". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
- ↑ "The Wisconsin Historical Society Placed the Rising Star Flouring Mill on the State Register of Historic Places". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
- ↑ "John Gilbert Rosholt House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- ↑ Seiler, Mark R. (2009-12-04). "Rosholt, John Gilbert, House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ "Severance-Pipe Farmstead". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- ↑ Cartwright, Carol Lohry (1992-07-23). "Severance-Pipe Farmstead". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- ↑ "UW Stevens Point - Contest". Malcolm Rosholt Online Archives. Portage County Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2011-12-04. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- ↑ "Stevens Point State Normal School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- ↑ Anderson, Donald N.; Cleary, Richard L. (1976-07-12). "Stevens Point State Normal School". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- ↑ "Temple Beth Israel". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
- ↑ Seiler, Mark R. (2006-04-25). "Temple Beth Israel". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
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