This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the
National Register of Historic Places that are located in
Sawyer 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 4 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Log
tavern built around 1874 - one of many rest stops on the old Chippewa Trail
stage line, which generally followed the course of
modern Highway 40 from
Chippewa Falls north into the pinery. This stopping place served loggers, trappers and rivermen with a saloon downstairs and sleeping rooms upstairs.[5][6] In 1917, when logging waned, the place became a demo farm for Faast's Wisconsin Colonization Company. Now believed to be the oldest surviving structure in Sawyer County.[7]
Rustic lodge built in the 1920s by an
Ojibwe carpenter for Ted Moody, Chicago car dealer and auto mechanic who needed to escape the fumes of cars.[8][9] Now a B&B called Spider Lake Lodge.[10]
2-story brick headquarters built in 1889 by one of the major logging companies in the
Namekagon watershed, founded by A. J. Hayward and R. L. McCormick,[11] with fireproof vault in basement, offices on first floor, and rooms for visiting officials above.[12]
1922 newspaper office in Ojibwa, a community planned to settle immigrant farmers in Wisconsin's cutover, by Benjamin Faast's Wisconsin Colonization Company. That company failed in 1929, but it planted a seed of the
Federal Land Bank system.[13][14]
^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.
^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.
^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.
^"Hall-Raynor Stopping Place". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
^Peters, James (1978-08-03).
"Hall-Raynor Stopping Place". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
^McMillan, Marilyn (October 1979).
"North Wisconsin Lumber Company Office". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
^McMillan, Marilyn (1980-07-15).
"Ojibwa Courier Press Building". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-19.