National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Wisconsin
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Crawford 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 28 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 16, 2024.[2]
Current listings
[edit]| [3] | Name on the Register[4] | Image | Date listed[5] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astor Fur Warehouse |  |
October 15, 1966 (#66000800) |
Water Street, Saint Feriole Island 43°03′18″N 91°09′36″W / 43.055°N 91.16°W | Prairie du Chien | Built by Joseph Rolette around 1828 for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, this is the only known fur trade warehouse left in the Upper Mississippi Valley.[6] |
| 2 | Michael Brisbois House |  |
October 15, 1966 (#66000801) |
Water Street, Saint Feriole Island 43°03′15″N 91°09′35″W / 43.054167°N 91.159722°W | Prairie du Chien | Federal style house built of locally-quarried limestone around 1837 by fur trader Joseph Rolette for his estranged wife Jane.[7] |
| 3 | Carved Cave |  |
September 27, 1996 (#96001026) |
Address Restricted | Petersburg | Crevice in a sandstone outcrop in the Kickapoo Valley, in which early people carved over 100 grooves.[8] |
| 4 | Cipra Wayside Mound Group |  |
February 7, 2007 (#07000034) |
Highway 60, 5 miles E of Bridgeport 43°02′20″N 90°59′18″W / 43.038986°N 90.988461°W | Wauzeka | Linear and conical burial mounds[9] near the Wisconsin River, built by Late Woodland people.[10] |
| 5 | Commercial Hotel |  |
November 15, 2002 (#02001342) |
201 West Blackhawk Avenue 43°03′06″N 91°08′52″W / 43.051667°N 91.147778°W | Prairie du Chien | Built in 1866 as the Schweizer Block, this Italianate-styled building first housed retail, offices and storage. It later became the Commodore Hotel, the Commercial Hotel, and the Fort Crawford Hotel.[11] |
| 6 | Crawford County Courthouse |  |
March 9, 1982 (#82000645) |
220 North Beaumont Road 43°03′17″N 91°08′44″W / 43.054722°N 91.145556°W | Prairie du Chien | Italianate-styled courthouse built in 1867 of limestone quarried nearby in Bridgeport. The dungeon-like jail in the basement may have been built as early as 1843, one of the oldest remaining in the state.[12] |
| 7 | Crow Hollow Site | |
March 13, 2002 (#02000256) |
Address Restricted | Petersburg | Rare Middle Archaic campsite along the Kickapoo River, occupied as early as 5000 years ago, where archaeologists have found points, scrapers, grindstones, and refuse and storage pits.[13] |
| 8 | Dousman Hotel |  |
October 15, 1966 (#66000122) |
Fisher Street and River Road 43°03′14″N 91°09′35″W / 43.053889°N 91.159722°W | Prairie du Chien | Grand 3-story Victorian brick hotel near the river, built around 1864 by the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad and named for Hercules Dousman, fur agent cum railroad developer. In 1937 the building was gutted to become a slaughterhouse,[14] but it's now restored.[15] |
| 9 | Benjamin F. and Wilhelmina Fay House |  |
August 6, 2019 (#100004227) |
203 S. Wacouta Ave. 43°03′00″N 91°08′42″W / 43.0501°N 91.1451°W | Prairie du Chien | 2-story cream brick Italianate-styled house with polygonal bays, built in 1881. Benjamin was a storekeeper, livestock dealer, and then land agent.[16] |
| 10 | Foley Mound Group | |
July 15, 1974 (#74000062) |
Address Restricted | Lynxville | |
| 11 | W.H.C. Folsom House |  |
December 6, 1984 (#84000692) |
109 Blackhawk Avenue 43°03′06″N 91°08′49″W / 43.051667°N 91.146944°W | Prairie du Chien | Greek Revival home built in 1842 for businessman Folsom. Attorney Wiram Knowlton recruited here during the Mexican–American War. John Muir worked here as a printer.[17] |
| 12 | Fort Crawford Military Hospital |  |
October 15, 1966 (#66000121) |
Rice Street and South Beaumont Road 43°02′37″N 91°08′49″W / 43.043611°N 91.146944°W | Prairie du Chien | Started in 1816, Fort Crawford was one of a string of U.S. Army outposts in the Old Northwest. Here the First Treaty of Prairie du Chien was negotiated, Dr. Beaumont investigated human digestion, Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis served, and Black Hawk was imprisoned. Now a museum.[18] |
| 13 | Larsen Cave | |
March 5, 2002 (#02000187) |
Address Restricted | Eastman | |
| 14 | Old Rock School |  |
December 1, 1983 (#83004265) |
South Marquette Road at Parrish Street 43°02′01″N 91°08′12″W / 43.033611°N 91.136667°W | Prairie du Chien | Elementary school constructed in 1857[17] in Greek Revival style.[19] |
| 15 | Olson Mound Group | |
February 12, 1974 (#74000063) |
Address Restricted | Seneca | |
| 16 | Pedretti III | |
December 18, 1978 (#78000084) |
Address Restricted | Prairie du Chien | |
| 17 | Strange Powers House |  |
August 27, 1979 (#79000067) |
338 North Main Street 43°03′19″N 91°08′54″W / 43.055278°N 91.148333°W | Prairie du Chien | Part of the house is constructed in a French colonial technique of vertical timbers with horizontal poles mortised between, probably built around 1820.[20] Strange Powers is the name of an early owner. |
| 18 | Prairie du Chien City Hall |  |
October 16, 2002 (#02001186) |
207 West Blackhawk Avenue 43°03′06″N 91°08′53″W / 43.051667°N 91.148056°W | Prairie du Chien | 1894 building which housed the mayor's office, police department, fire department, library, an auditorium, and later the American Legion.[21] |
| 19 | Prairie du Chien Post Office |  |
October 24, 2000 (#00001263) |
120 South Beaumont Road 43°03′03″N 91°08′46″W / 43.050833°N 91.146111°W | Prairie du Chien | Constructed with WPA help in 1936,[17] including a relief sculpture of Marquette and Jolliet.[22] |
| 20 | Alfred Reed Mound Group (47Cr311) | |
September 7, 1982 (#82000646) |
Address Restricted | Prairie du Chien | |
| 21 | Rolette House |  |
February 1, 1972 (#72000046) |
Northeast corner of North Water and Fisher Streets 43°03′14″N 91°09′33″W / 43.053889°N 91.159167°W | Prairie du Chien | Frame-with-brick-nogging house[23] begun in 1840 by fur trader Joseph Rolette. Later a hotel and boarding house.[17] |
| 22 | St. Germain dit Gauthier House |  |
May 10, 2018 (#100002411) |
419 5th St. 43°03′22″N 91°09′17″W / 43.0561°N 91.1546°W | Prairie du Chien | Early house built in 1837 by Guillaume St. Germain, who came from Quebec.[24] Walls are of horizontal hewn logs with dovetailed corners, the French-Canadian piece sur piece a que d'aronde construction.[25] |
| 23 | St. Mary's Academy and College |  |
July 14, 2017 (#100001380) |
604 S. Beaumont Rd. 43°02′40″N 91°08′50″W / 43.044567°N 91.147357°W | Prairie du Chien | Italianate building begun in 1872 and added to until 1914.[26] St. Mary's was an all-female Catholic school that operated from 1872 to 1929 when it moved to Milwaukee, becoming Mount Mary College. From 1929 to 1961 the building in Prairie du Chien housed a girls' prep school.[27] |
| 24 | Tainter Cave |  |
May 8, 2001 (#01000106) |
Address Restricted | Clayton | Deep cave containing charcoal drawings of birds, men, deer and abstract designs,[28] some dated around 1000 CE. The 100 drawings constitute half the known rock art drawings in the state, some in a distinct style. |
| 25 | Unpleasant Ridge | |
December 15, 1997 (#97001553) |
Address Restricted | Boydtown | |
| 26 | Francois Vertefeuille House |  |
March 18, 1993 (#93000142) |
Hwy. K, 0.35 mi. S of jct. with Limery Rd. 43°04′59″N 91°08′57″W / 43.083056°N 91.149167°W | Prairie du Chien | Log cabin built around 1810 in a distinct French Canadian method by people connected to the fur trade.[29] Believed the oldest structure in Wisconsin on its original site.[17] |
| 27 | Villa Louis |  |
October 15, 1966 (#66000123) |
Villa Road and Bolvin Street 43°03′21″N 91°09′33″W / 43.055833°N 91.159167°W | Prairie du Chien | 1871 Italian villa style mansion built on an Indian mound by Louis Dousman, on the estate started by his father Hercules in 1843. Now a museum.[30] |
| 28 | Wall-Smethurst Mound Group | |
June 13, 1974 (#74000064) |
Address Restricted | Lynxville |
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ 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 August 16, 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.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Schroer, Blanche Higgins. "NRHP Nomination for Astor Fur Warehouse". U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- ^ "Brisbois House". Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- ^ Boszhardt, Robert F. (2003). Deep Cave Rock Art in the Upper Mississippi Valley. St. Paul, Minn.: Prairie Smoke Press. p. 28. ISBN 0970448236.
- ^ Khitsun, Andrew. "Wayside Mounds (Cipra Group)". Retrieved 2012-08-09.
- ^ "Previous National Register Updates - Feb 9, 2007". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
- ^ Stemper, Mary Ann. Up One Side & Down the Other: Historic BlackHawk Avenue Walking Tour (PDF). Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ^ "Crawford County Courthouse". Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- ^ "Chipped-stone tools from the Crow Hollow site". Turning Points in Wisconsin History. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
- ^ Schroer, Blanche Higgins. "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form - Dousman Hotel". Historic Sites Survey. National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
- ^ "Dousman House History". Retrieved 2012-08-09.
- ^ "Benjamin F. and Wilhelmina Fay House". Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
- ^ a b c d e "History". Prairie du Chien Area Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ^ "History: The Second Fort Crawford". Fort Crawford Museum. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
- ^ "Old Rock School". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
- ^ Hoagland, Alison K.; Frandsen, Bradley (1978). "Historic American Buildings Survey - Prairie du Chien" (PDF). National Park Service - Dept. of the Interior. p. 24. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
- ^ "Prairie du Chien City Hall". Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ^ "Post Office Plaster Relief - Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin". The Living New Deal. University of California - Berkeley. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
- ^ Hoagland, Alison K.; Frandsen, Bradley (1978). "Historic American Buildings Survey - Prairie du Chien" (PDF). National Park Service - Dept. of the Interior. p. 18. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
- ^ "St Germain dit Gauthier House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
- ^ "St. Germain dit Gauthier-Coorough House" (PDF). FortCrawfordMuseum.com. Prairie du Chien Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
- ^ "St. Mary's Institute". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
- ^ "May 30, 2017 - St. Mary's Academy and College in Prairie du Chien placed on the State Register of Historic Places". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
- ^ "Tainter Cave". Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
- ^ "Vertefeuille, Francois, House". Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ^ "History of Villa Louis". Wisconsin Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
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