National Register of Historic Places listings in Green County, Wisconsin
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Green County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Green 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 30 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 |
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1 | 1st and 2nd Street Historic District | May 10, 2021 (#100006495) |
Generally bounded by 1st and 2nd Sts. between 6th and 12th Aves. 42°48′42″N 89°38′05″W / 42.8118°N 89.6346°W | New Glarus | ||
2 | 2nd Street Commercial Historic District | May 10, 2021 (#100006496) |
2nd St. between 4th and 5th Aves., 130 and 200 5th Ave. 42°48′57″N 89°38′06″W / 42.8158°N 89.6351°W | New Glarus | ||
3 | Judge John A. Bingham House | January 2, 1976 (#76000063) |
621 14th Ave. 42°36′21″N 89°38′31″W / 42.605833°N 89.641944°W | Monroe | Formal Greek Revival house built in 1850 and expanded in 1877. Vermont-native Bingham came to Monroe in 1842 as a lawyer, became DA and judge, started banks, helped bring the railroad to Monroe, served on the school board, and was active in the Republican Party.[6][7] | |
4 | Gen. James Bintliff House | May 14, 1979 (#79000080) |
723 18th Ave. 42°36′17″N 89°38′15″W / 42.604722°N 89.6375°W | Monroe | Gothic Revival cottage built in 1858 by English immigrant Bintliff, who distinguished himself in the Third Battle of Petersburg. | |
5 | Dr. Samuel Blumer House | November 5, 1992 (#92001556) |
112 Sixth Ave. 42°48′53″N 89°38′05″W / 42.814722°N 89.634722°W | New Glarus | 1858 home in Greek Revival style. The walls are rubble limestone covered with a smooth plaster finish, a technique that New Glarus' settlers brought from Canton Glarus in Switzerland. Blumer was the village's first physician.[8][9] | |
6 | Cadiz Township Joint District No. 2 School | April 12, 1996 (#96000419) |
214 School St. 42°34′34″N 89°47′24″W / 42.576111°N 89.79°W | Browntown | 2-room State Graded school built in 1921, in Craftsman style with brick walls and a hip roof. Served the community until 1983 - then converted to a home.[10][11] | |
7 | Caradine Building | May 8, 1979 (#79000081) |
1007 16th Ave. 42°36′07″N 89°38′24″W / 42.601944°N 89.64°W | Monroe | 2-story store built in 1869 for Elisha Mosher's commission and auction business. Still has original cast iron columns at street level and elaborate brickwork above. Caradines bought it in 1907 to house their dental clinic.[12][13] Now a museum.[14] | |
8 | Chalet of the Golden Fleece | August 24, 2015 (#15000551) |
618 2nd St. 42°48′50″N 89°38′06″W / 42.813768°N 89.634875°W | New Glarus | House in the style of a mountain chalet from the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, designed by J. Jacob Rieder and built in 1937-38 for Edwin P. Barlow, founder of New Glarus's Wilhelm Tell Festival.[15] | |
9 | Frank L. Chenoweth House | October 8, 1976 (#76000064) |
2004 10th St. 42°36′07″N 89°38′05″W / 42.601944°N 89.634722°W | Monroe | 2.5 story elaborate Queen Anne-styled house with 3-story octagonal tower and matching coach house, built 1888-89. Frank was a merchant in Monroe.[16][17] | |
10 | Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad Depot | April 6, 2000 (#00000359) |
418 Railroad St. 42°49′00″N 89°37′57″W / 42.816667°N 89.6325°W | New Glarus | Small-town wooden depot with Victorian trim, built by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad in 1887, and operated until 1972. | |
11 | Cleveland's Hall and Blacksmith Shop | January 7, 2010 (#09001220) |
N7302 County Trunk Highway X 42°46′12″N 89°28′50″W / 42.770006°N 89.480675°W | Brooklyn | Blacksmith shop at a rural crossroad, built around 1873. Ten years later, Cleveland converted the second story to a dance hall and meeting room, while the first floor remained the smithy. | |
12 | Exchange Square Historic District | November 15, 1984 (#84000724) |
Roughly bounded by 10th, RR tracks, E. 2nd and W. 3rd Aves. 42°37′11″N 89°22′37″W / 42.619722°N 89.376944°W | Brodhead | The old downtown of Brodhead around Exchange Square, including the 1856 Farmer's Hotel,[18] the 1868 Italianate Gombar-Laube Hall,[19] the 1869 High Victorian Gothic Pfisterer building,[20] the 1881 Bartlett Wagon and Carriage Factory,[21] the 1885 (or 1882?) Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Depot,[22] and the 1895 Queen Anne Laube Building (pictured).[23][24] | |
13 | First Methodist Church | February 25, 1975 (#75000065) |
11th St. and 14th Ave. 42°36′06″N 89°38′34″W / 42.601667°N 89.642778°W | Monroe | Gothic revival design by E. Townsend Mix, with a turned corner tower and unusual teardrop windows, built 1869-1887. | |
14 | Freitag Homestead | November 15, 2005 (#05001302) |
N7053 WI 69/39 42°45′35″N 89°36′58″W / 42.759722°N 89.616111°W | Washington | Historic farm begun in 1848 by a founder of New Glarus. Also the site of the first Swiss cheese factory in Wisconsin. | |
15 | Freitag's Pure Oil Service Station | January 15, 1980 (#80000139) |
1323 9th St. 42°36′11″N 89°38′28″W / 42.603056°N 89.641111°W | Monroe | 1929 gas station styled like an English cottage, with service bay. Pure Oil built hundreds of similar stations across the country, branding with architecture. | |
16 | Green County Courthouse | March 21, 1978 (#78000097) |
Courthouse Sq. 42°36′06″N 89°38′21″W / 42.601667°N 89.639167°W | Monroe | Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse designed by G. Stanley Mansfield and built in 1891. | |
17 | Hefty-Blum Farmstead | June 2, 2000 (#00000601) |
W6303 Hefty Rd. 42°45′49″N 89°40′20″W / 42.763611°N 89.672222°W | Washington | Historic farm started in 1848 by Swiss immigrant Fridolin Hefty and run by generations of the family. Includes 1859 granary, 1861 stone barn,[25] 1880 house,[26] 1881 cheese factory, 1882 frame dairy barn, and 1882 buggy shed.[27] | |
18 | C. D. Hulburt House | May 8, 1979 (#79000082) |
1205 13th Ave. 42°36′00″N 89°38′37″W / 42.6°N 89.643611°W | Monroe | Smallish Second Empire-styled house built in 1878, brick-walled with bell-curved mansard roof. Chauncey Hulburt came west from New York in the 1840s and became a lumberman in Monroe, finishing the inside of this house with elegant woodwork.[28][29] | |
19 | Janet Jennings House | January 2, 1976 (#76000065) |
612 22nd Ave. 42°36′21″N 89°37′56″W / 42.605833°N 89.632222°W | Monroe | Italianate-styled Foursquare house built in the early 1870s. Jennings went to Washington in 1863 to care for her brother who was wounded at Chancellorsville. There she worked with Clara Barton, and ended up managing a unit of hospital tents. She later wrote for major newspapers and organized another hospital at Santiago during the Spanish–American War.[30][31] | |
20 | Monroe Commercial District | May 6, 1982 (#82000671) |
Roughly bounded by 15th and 18th Aves., 9th and 13th Sts. 42°36′04″N 89°38′24″W / 42.601111°N 89.64°W | Monroe | The old downtown of Monroe, centered on the courthouse square. Includes the Monroe Planing Mill with its frame part built in the 1840s,[32] the 1861 Romanesque Revival Universalist Church,[33] the 1866 Green County House,[34] the 1870 Italianate Jailhouse Tap,[35] the 1872 Italianate Treat Block,[36] the 1890 Queen Anne-styled Chenoweth Building,[37] the 1904 Neoclassical Ludlow Memorial Library,[38] and the 1931 Art Deco Goetz Theatre.[39][40] | |
21 | Monroe Water Tower | November 15, 2005 (#05001290) |
16th Ave. and 20th St. 42°35′43″N 89°38′23″W / 42.595278°N 89.639722°W | Monroe | 80-foot brick water tower built in 1889, originally with a 100,000 gallon wooden tank on top - now steel. The tower's water system was one of the first major public services provided by the city of Monroe. | |
22 | New Glarus Public School and High School | March 26, 1998 (#98000284) |
413 Sixth Ave. 42°48′51″N 89°38′17″W / 42.814167°N 89.638056°W | New Glarus | Richardsonian Romanesque-styled school built in 1896, designed by Conover & Porter of Madison. Expanded in 1914, 1915 and 1933, with an Art Deco-styled gym added in 1939.[41][42] | |
23 | New Glarus Town Hall | April 11, 2008 (#08000286) |
206 2nd St. 42°49′05″N 89°38′06″W / 42.818058°N 89.635103°W | New Glarus | Greek Revival-styled building built jointly in 1886 by the town and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Town functions were on the first floor and basement, and the AOUW met upstairs. | |
24 | Jacob Regez, Sr. House | January 17, 1980 (#80000140) |
2121 7th St. 42°36′19″N 89°37′56″W / 42.605278°N 89.632222°W | Monroe | 2.5-story Queen Anne-styled home with a large, round veranda. Regez was a Swiss immigrant who played an important role in developing Monroe's Swiss cheese industry. | |
25 | Francis West Smith House | April 17, 1979 (#79000083) |
1002 W. 2nd Ave. 42°37′14″N 89°22′40″W / 42.620556°N 89.377778°W | Brodhead | 2-story cream brick Italianate-styled house with delicate scroll-sawn brackets built in 1877, with a 2-story brick carriage house. Francis was a New Yorker who arrived in Brodhead in 1865 and operated a grocery store near the house.[43][44] | |
26 | John C. and Barbara Steinman House | November 26, 2003 (#03001215) |
330 S. Monroe St. 42°44′34″N 89°35′42″W / 42.742778°N 89.595°W | Monticello | Fine, intact 2-story Queen Anne-style home built in 1903-1904, with wood floors and original grills inside, and with a carriage barn. John was a partner in a general merchandise business, and involved in real estate, insurance, lumber and feed.[45][46] | |
27 | Wilhelm Tell Schuetzen Haus and Park | August 12, 2022 (#100007989) |
N8745 Cty. Rd. O 42°49′23″N 89°38′19″W / 42.8230°N 89.6387°W | New Glarus | ||
28 | Albert and Minna Ten Eyck Round Barn | November 29, 2016 (#16000813) |
W968 WI 11 42°35′19″N 89°24′37″W / 42.588556°N 89.410175°W | Spring Grove | A true round barn, built in 1922 with tile walls at ground level, wood walls above, and a silo in the middle. Albert was a professor of agriculture, as well as a farmer.[47] | |
29 | Gen. Francis H. West House | January 1, 1975 (#75000066) |
1410 17th Ave. 42°35′53″N 89°38′15″W / 42.598056°N 89.6375°W | Monroe | 2-story brick house of joined polygons with an octagonal cupola, built in 1860, before West led a regiment in the Civil War. | |
30 | F. F. White Block | January 31, 1979 (#79000084) |
1514-1524 11th St. 42°36′03″N 89°38′23″W / 42.600833°N 89.639722°W | Monroe | Monumental 3.5-story business block on courthouse square, designed by Allan Darst Conover in Tudor Revival style and built in 1900.[48][49] |
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: Dane, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock, Stephenson (IL), Winnebago (IL)
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.
- ^ "Judge John A. Bingham House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
- ^ Donald N. Anderson; Biruta Erdman (1975-08-13). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Bingham, Judge John A., House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-05-10. With one photo.
- ^ "Blumer, Dr. Samuel, House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
- ^ Jane Eiseley (1991-09-05). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Blumer, Dr. Samuel, House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-05-10. With ten photos.
- ^ "Cadiz Township Joint District No. 2 School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
- ^ Elizabeth L. Miller (1995-04-26). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Cadiz Township Joint District No. 2 School". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-05-16. With one photo.
- ^ "Caradine Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ^ Mrs. John (Sue) Caradine; Mrs. Leland (Orene) Lamboley; Katherine E. Hundt (1978-09-20). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Caradine Building". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-05-20. With one photo.
- ^ "Chalet of the Golden Fleece". New Glarus, Wisconsin. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ^ "Chalet of the Golden Fleece". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ^ "Frank L. Chenoweth House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ^ James A. Sewell; Edmund C. Hamilton (1976-01-20). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Chenoweth, Frank L. House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-05-20. With one photo.
- ^ "Farmer's Hotel". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ^ "Gombar Hall; Laube Hall". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ^ "Pfisterer Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ^ "L.C. Bartlett and Son, Carriage and Wagon Factory". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ^ "Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Depot". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ^ "Laube Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ^ Leonard T. Garfield (1984-06-01). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Exchange Square Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-06-19. With 56 photos.
- ^ "Hefty-Blum Farmstead -stone barn". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "Hefty-Blum Farmstead -House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ Jane Eiseley (1999-07-24). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Hefty-Blum Farmstead". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-07-01. With 15 photos.
- ^ "C.D. Hulburt House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ Mrs. Orene Lamboley; Katherine E. Hundt (October 1978). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Hulburt, C.D., House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-07-08. With one photo.
- ^ "Janet Jennings House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ Donald N. Anderson; Biruta Erdmann (1975-08-07). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Jennings, Janet, House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-07-08. With one photo.
- ^ "Monroe Planing Mill". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ "Universalist Church". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ "Green County House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ "Weasel's Jailhouse Tap". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ "Treat's Block". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ "Benjamin Chenoweth Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ "Arabut Ludlow Memorial Free Library". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ "Goetz Theatre". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
- ^ Terry L. Shoptaugh (1980-03-23). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Monroe Commercial District". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-07-08. With 56 photos.
- ^ "New Glarus Public School and High School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ^ Elizabeth L. Miller (1996-11-21). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: New Glarus Public School and High School". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-07-19. With 18 photos.
- ^ "Francis West Smith House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ Joyce B. Condon; Katherine E. Hundt (1978-03-09). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Smith, Francis West, House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-08-31. With one photo.
- ^ "John C. and Barbara Steinman House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ Timothy F. Heggland (2002-08-19). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Steinman, John C. and Barbara, House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-08-31. With 13 photos.
- ^ "TenEyck, Albert and Minna, Round Barn". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
- ^ "F.F. White Block". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
- ^ Mrs. Franz (Carol) Brand; Mrs. Terry (Marguerite) Kubly; Katherine E. Hundt (1978-03-16). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: F.F. White Block". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-09-06. With one photo.