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Location of Price County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Price County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Price 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 13 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.


          This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 16, 2024.[2]

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Current listings

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[3] Name on the Register Image Date listed[4] Location City or town Description
1 Deadman Slough
Deadman Slough
Deadman Slough
 August 20, 1993
(#93000750) 		Address Restricted
Flambeau Late Paleo-Indian campsite and workshop near the Flambeau River. Artifacts include points of Hixton quartzite, adzes and scrapers. Animal remains include deer and porcupine bones, turtle shells, and probable waterfowl bones. Site also contains middle Woodland remains.[5]
2 Fifield Fire Lookout Tower
Fifield Fire Lookout Tower
Fifield Fire Lookout Tower
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 July 3, 2007
(#07000668) 		5 mi (8.0 km). E of Fifield, WI 70
45°53′12″N 90°19′28″W / 45.886667°N 90.324444°W / 45.886667; -90.324444 (Fifield Fire Lookout Tower) 		Fifield 100-foot galvanized steel fire tower built by the Wisconsin Conservation Commission in 1932, when wildfires scorched the cut-over. Lookouts from CCC Camp Riley Creek staffed the tower from around 1935 to 1941 and then the Forest Service until 1957.[6][7]
3 Fifield Town Hall
Fifield Town Hall
Fifield Town Hall
 February 17, 1978
(#78000339) 		Pine St. and Flambeau Ave.
45°52′38″N 90°25′16″W / 45.877222°N 90.421111°W / 45.877222; -90.421111 (Fifield Town Hall) 		Fifield This town hall was built in 1894 on the site of the previous hall, which burned in the Fifield fire of 1893. It was the center of community life, with offices, jail, courtroom, meeting room, social hall, and a balcony for speeches and public announcements.[8][9] Now a museum.[10]
4 Flambeau Paper Company Office Building
Flambeau Paper Company Office Building
Flambeau Paper Company Office Building
 September 12, 1985
(#85002331) 		200 N. First Ave.
45°56′11″N 90°26′50″W / 45.936389°N 90.447222°W / 45.936389; -90.447222 (Flambeau Paper Company Office Building) 		Park Falls Neoclassical 2-story brick office building with 3-story clock tower, designed by Richard Philipp and built in 1925 and 1929. The building represents Park Falls' major industry for many years.[11][12]
5 Albin Johnson Log House
Albin Johnson Log House
Albin Johnson Log House
 January 20, 1978
(#78000127) 		N894 S. German Settlement Rd, Ogema
45°24′39″N 90°04′20″W / 45.410833°N 90.072222°W / 45.410833; -90.072222 (Albin Johnson Log House) 		Spirit Typical Swedish-style log cabin built of pine, tamarack and hemlock in 1885 by immigrant Albin and his future uncle Amandus. Logs are cupped on top and bottom, with squared sides and dovetailed corner notches. Two rooms downstairs and a sleeping room up.[13][14]
6 Matt Johnson Log House
Matt Johnson Log House
Matt Johnson Log House
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 December 8, 1978
(#78000128) 		S of Brantwood off U.S. 8
45°31′45″N 90°07′20″W / 45.529167°N 90.122222°W / 45.529167; -90.122222 (Matt Johnson Log House) 		Brantwood Finnish-style log cabin with full dovetail joints, built in 1898 of hemlock, with two rooms downstairs and one up. Built by Finnish immigrants Matt Johnson and John Kivekoa, who worked at the Knox Brothers sawmill. A.k.a. Knox House.[15][16][17]
7 Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
 April 19, 2006
(#06000301) 		Sokol Park, Ash and Fifield Sts.
45°41′44″N 90°24′27″W / 45.695556°N 90.4075°W / 45.695556; -90.4075 (Lidice Memorial) 		Phillips This 1944 Modernist sculpture in a city with a large Czech-Slovak population commemorates the Nazis' 1942 destruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia.[18][19]
8 Park Falls Post Office
Park Falls Post Office
Park Falls Post Office
 October 24, 2000
(#00001238) 		109 First St. N
45°56′09″N 90°26′53″W / 45.935833°N 90.448056°W / 45.935833; -90.448056 (Park Falls Post Office) 		Park Falls 3-story Neoclassical red-brick-and-limestone office built by the PWA in 1936 to house the post office and the headquarters of the Chequamegon National Forest. The lobby contains a WPA mural by John Watrous entitled "Lumberjack Fight on the Flambeau River."[20][21]
9 Phillips High School
Phillips High School
Phillips High School
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 February 24, 1995
(#95000156) 		300 Cherry St.
45°41′22″N 90°24′01″W / 45.689444°N 90.400278°W / 45.689444; -90.400278 (Phillips High School) 		Phillips Romanesque and eclectic-styled brick school designed by Henry Wildhagen and built in 1909 and expanded by the PWA in 1937.[22][23]
10 Prentice Boy Scout Cabin Upload image November 24, 2017
(#100001857) 		1600 blk. of Washington St.
45°32′58″N 90°17′23″W / 45.549436°N 90.289664°W / 45.549436; -90.289664 (Prentice Boy Scout Cabin) 		Prentice Rustic-styled meeting hall with walls of small vertical logs, built in 1956.[24]
11 Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company
Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company
Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company
 September 12, 1985
(#85002329) 		700 Main St.
45°32′48″N 90°17′26″W / 45.546667°N 90.290556°W / 45.546667; -90.290556 (Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company) 		Prentice Built in 1906 as a hide house for the U.S. Leather Company, the building housed the Prentice Cooperative Creamery Company from 1915 into the 1940s.[25][26]
12 Round Lake Logging Dam
Round Lake Logging Dam
Round Lake Logging Dam
 September 17, 1981
(#81000055) 		NE of Fifield
45°55′33″N 90°04′45″W / 45.925833°N 90.079167°W / 45.925833; -90.079167 (Round Lake Logging Dam) 		Fifield Log-sluicing and flushing dam built in 1878, carefully restored.[27][28][29]
13 Wisconsin Concrete Park
Wisconsin Concrete Park
Wisconsin Concrete Park
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 October 28, 2005
(#05001195) 		WI 13 S.
45°40′15″N 90°23′19″W / 45.670833°N 90.388611°W / 45.670833; -90.388611 (Wisconsin Concrete Park) 		Worcester A garden of rustic sculptures, created between 1950 and 1964 by Fred Smith - lumberjack, barkeep, and self-taught artist.[30][31][32][33]

Formerly listed properties

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[3] Name on the Register Image Date listedDate removed Location City or town Description
1 Bloom's Tavern, Store and House Upload image March 7, 1985
(#85000490)		September 29, 2011 396 S. Avon Ave.
45°41′06″N 90°23′38″W / 45.685°N 90.3939°W / 45.685; -90.3939 (Bloom's Tavern, Store and House) 		Phillips Two buildings connected by boomtown fronts, started in 1895. Burned in May 2009. At that point it was "the oldest known family-operated tavern in northern Wisconsin."[34]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved August 16, 2024.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Kuehn, Steven R. (2007). "Late PaleoIndian Subsistence Strategies in the Western Great Lakes Region". In Beauchamp Walker, Renee; Driskell, Boyce N. (eds.). Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0803248021.
  6. ^ "Fifield Fire Lookout Tower". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  7. ^ McKay, Joyce; Bruhy, Mark (1996-03-13). "Fifield Fire Lookout Tower". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  8. ^ "Old Fifield Town Hall". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  9. ^ Hunton, Gail L.; Anderson, Donald N. (1977-08-11). "Fifield Town Hall". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  10. ^ "Museum". Price County Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  11. ^ "Flambeau Paper Company Office Building". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  12. ^ Taylor, Mary E. (March 1985). "Flambeau Paper Company Office Building". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  13. ^ "Albin Johnson Log House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  14. ^ Hunton, Gayle (1977-04-02). "Johnson, Albin, Log House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  15. ^ "Knox House". Price County Tourism Department. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
  16. ^ "Matt Johnson Log House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  17. ^ Hunton, Gayle L.; Donath, Donald A. (April 1978). "Johnson, Matt, Log House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  18. ^ "Lidice Memorial". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  19. ^ Aucutt, Donald M. (2005-08-29). "Lidice Memorial". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  20. ^ "Park Falls Post Office". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  21. ^ Causier, Charles W.; Jurkiewicz, Joseph G. (1993-12-29). "Park Falls Post Office". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  22. ^ "Phillips High School". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  23. ^ Hettinga, Mary Jane; Schroder, Patricia (1993-12-12). "Phillips High School". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  24. ^ "Prentice Boy Scout Cabin". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  25. ^ "Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  26. ^ Taylor, Mary E. (1985). "Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  27. ^ "Round Lake Logging Dam" Archived 2013-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, Price County
  28. ^ Vogel, John N. (1982–1983). "The Round Lake logging dam: a survivor of Wisconsin's log-driving days". Wisconsin Magazine of History. 66 (3): 171–191. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  29. ^ Vogel, John (1980-09-29). "Round Lake Logging Dam". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  30. ^ "Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park: History". Friends of Fred Smith. Archived from the original on 2010-08-27. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  31. ^ "Wisconsin Concrete Park". Kohler Foundation. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
  32. ^ "Wisconsin Concrete Park". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  33. ^ Umberger, Leslie; Erika Doss; Ruth Kohler; Lisa Stone (2007). Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 167–186. ISBN 1-56898-728-5.
  34. ^ "Bloom's Tavern, Store and House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
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