This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Iowa 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 41 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
This
National Park Service list is complete through
NPS recent listings posted April 5, 2024.
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[3] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [4] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Archeological Site No. 47Ia167 | August 21, 1992 ( #92001026) |
Address Restricted | Brigham | ||
2 | Archeological Site No. 47Ia168 | August 21, 1992 ( #92001025) |
Address Restricted | Brigham | ||
3 | William Henry Brisbane House | September 13, 1990 ( #90001458) |
Reimann Rd., .6 mi. S of US 14 43°09′12″N 89°54′33″W / 43.153333°N 89.909167°W | Arena | Unusual (for Wisconsin) 2.5 story Gothic Revival-styled I-house, built in 1868 for Brisbane, a former South Carolina slave owner who became a nationally prominent abolitionist. [5] [6] | |
4 | Carden Rockshelter | August 5, 1993 ( #93000808) |
Address Restricted | Brigham | ||
5 | Cassidy Farmhouse | September 29, 1986 ( #86002297) |
Off WI K N of US 18/151 43°01′26″N 89°53′23″W / 43.023889°N 89.889722°W | Barneveld | 2-story Greek Revival-styled house with walls of locally-quarried limestone, built in 1860. Henry and Sarah Cassidy were early settlers in Barneveld. [7] [8] | |
6 | DNR No. 4 Rockshelter | January 30, 1991 ( #90002156) |
Address Restricted | Brigham | ||
7 | DNR No. 5 Archeological Site | May 21, 1992 ( #92000592) |
Address Restricted | Brigham | ||
8 | Dodge Mining Camp Cabin | September 1, 2005 ( #05000952) |
205 E. Fountain St. 42°57′32″N 90°07′44″W / 42.958889°N 90.128889°W | Dodgeville | Settlement-era log cabin built in 1827, possibly by Henry Dodge, who led one of the first lead-mining parties into the area. Remodeled in the 1840s with clapboard siding and trim. [9] [10] | |
9 | Drohman Cabin | September 28, 1981 ( #81000037) |
Helena Rd. 43°10′42″N 90°01′04″W / 43.178411°N 90.017735°W | Arena | 1.5-story cabin built around 1850, with some walls built of hand-hewn oak logs joined by dovetail notches - a German style. Other walls are wattle-and-daub, which is very unusual in Wisconsin. Moved from Madison in 1989. [11] [12] | |
10 | Gottschall Site (47Ia80) | June 30, 1983 ( #83003399) |
Address Restricted | Highland | Sandstone rockshelter where rituals were performed from at least 500 B.C. to 1100 A.D. Artifacts include a painted sandstone head and a rock painting which seems to depict Red Horn, a Siouan hero. [13] | |
11 | Grove Street Historic District | September 29, 1986 ( #86002313) |
304-316 Grove St. 43°00′59″N 89°53′58″W / 43.016389°N 89.899444°W | Barneveld | Group of six modest homes and landscaping which survived the Barneveld tornado of 1984, giving a sample of how Barneveld looked before the disaster. [14] They are the 1901 Osborn house (pictured at left), [15] the 1901 Peterson house, [16] the 1910 Doescher house, [17] the 1910 Manteufel house, [18] the 1910 Carden house, [19] and the 1925 Vollen bungalow. [20] | |
12 | Harris House | September 29, 1986 ( #86002299) |
202 W. Wood St. 43°00′57″N 89°53′54″W / 43.015833°N 89.898333°W | Barneveld | Queen Anne home with unusual lintels above the windows, built around 1890 by the owner of the local lumberyard, in hopes of renting rooms to visitors to a local mineral spring. [21] [22] | |
13 | Hole-in-the-Wall No. 1 Cave | January 30, 1991 ( #90002157) |
Address Restricted | Brigham | ||
14 | Hyde Chapel | October 13, 1988 ( #88002002) |
1 mi. S of CTH H on CTH T 43°04′16″N 89°57′56″W / 43.071111°N 89.965556°W | Ridgeway | Wooden Greek Revival-styled rural church built in 1862 by English and Welsh settlers. Also the cemetery, with burials older than the building. [23] | |
15 | Ihm House | September 29, 1986 ( #86002301) |
203 N. Garfield St. 43°00′59″N 89°53′44″W / 43.016389°N 89.895556°W | Barneveld | Ornate Queen Anne cottage built around 1891 by Fred Lampop, [24] [25] who owned a livery stable and farm machine business. [26] | |
16 | Iowa County Courthouse | February 1, 1972 ( #72000053) |
SW corner of Iowa and Chapel Sts. 42°57′41″N 90°07′51″W / 42.961503°N 90.130894°W | Dodgeville | Temple-style Greek Revival courthouse, designed by Ernest Wiesen of Mineral Point and built in 1859 of locally-quarried limestone by Cornish stoneworkers. Additions followed in 1893, 1927, etc. Oldest continuously used courthouse in Wisconsin. [27] | |
17 | Iowa Street Historic District | September 6, 1996 ( #96000991) |
Roughly, Iowa St. from Division St. to Diagonal St. 42°57′40″N 90°07′49″W / 42.961111°N 90.130278°W | Dodgeville | Dodgeville's old downtown, including the 1859 Greek Revival Iowa County Courthouse, [27] the 1888 Italianate-styled Ford hardware store, [28] the 1901 Queen Anne Auditorium (opera house), [29] the 1919 Neoclassical-styled First National Bank, [30] the 1922 Commercial Craftsman Pollard harness shop, [31] and the 1940 Art Deco Commonwealth Telephone Company. [32] [33] | |
18 | David J. and Maggie Jones House | May 19, 1994 ( #94000447) |
201 E. Swayne St. (now 1121 Professional Dr.) 42°58′18″N 90°07′41″W / 42.971667°N 90.128056°W | Dodgeville | Italianate-styled frame house built in 1878 for J.C. Hocking, Cornish immigrant, miner and businessman. Occupied from 1879 by David J. Jones, Welsh immigrant, Civil War veteran, miner, and real estate speculator. [34] [35] | |
19 | Kittleson House | September 29, 1986 ( #86002304) |
104 W. Wood St. 43°00′59″N 89°53′50″W / 43.016389°N 89.897222°W | Barneveld | American Foursquare house with Queen-Anne-ish decorative shinglework in the dormers, built in 1911 for William Dagenhardt, who owned a warehouse. [36] [25] | |
20 | Linden High School | November 4, 1993 ( #93001168) |
344 E. Main St. 42°54′56″N 90°16′07″W / 42.915556°N 90.268611°W | Linden | 2-story brick high school designed by H.T. Liebert of Antigo in German Renaissance Revival style and built by Thomas Cretney of Ridgeville in 1913, when zinc-mining was booming in Linden. Grades 1-8 resided on the first floor, high school on the 2nd, and a science lab on 3rd. [37] Razed in 1995. [38] | |
21 | Linden Methodist Church | October 19, 1978 ( #78000099) |
Main and Church Sts. 42°55′03″N 90°16′26″W / 42.9175°N 90.273889°W | Linden | Limestone-block church designed by Thomas Blake and built by Cornish masons for the Methodist congregation in 1851. In 1870 they added a pine and walnut balcony around three walls inside, and around 1877 the steeple. [39] [40] | |
22 | Mayland Cave | December 22, 1978 ( #78000100) |
Address Restricted | Dodgeville | ||
23 | McCoy Rock Art Site | April 19, 1991 ( #91000467) |
Address Restricted | Moscow | ||
24 | Mineral Point Hill | October 26, 1972 ( #72000054) |
Roughly bounded by WI 23, Copper, Dodge, and Shake Rag Sts. 42°51′36″N 90°10′16″W / 42.86°N 90.171111°W | Mineral Point | Hill across from Shake Rag Street where most of Mineral Point's lead was mined from 1830 to 1855. Also the site of the Merry Christmas zinc mine, opened around 1906. [41] | |
25 | Mineral Point Historic District | July 30, 1971 ( #71000037) |
Roughly bounded by Ross, Shake Rag, 9th, and Bend Sts. 42°51′54″N 90°10′37″W / 42.865°N 90.176944°W | Mineral Point | Historic part of the early lead-mining community and Wisconsin's 3rd oldest city, including limestone cottages on Shake Rag Street built by Cornish lead miners in the 1830s and 40s, [42] the 1838 Greek Revival Odd Fellows Hall, [43] the 1839 Greek Revival Moses Strong house, [44] the 1845 Gothic Revival Trinity Episcopal church, [45] the 1849 Boomtown style Washburn and Woodman Bank, [46] the c. 1850 Federal style Wade house, [47] the 1856 Depot, [48] and the 1878 Mineral Springs Brewery. [49] [50] [51] | |
26 | Old Rock School | December 18, 1978 ( #78000101) |
914 Bequette St. 42°58′07″N 90°07′59″W / 42.968611°N 90.133056°W | Dodgeville | 2-story school built of coursed limestone rubble by Cornish immigrant Thomas Carkeek in 1853 - one of Dodgeville's first two permanent schools. Converted to a residence in 1882, and restored to historical form around 1970. [52] [53] | |
27 | Pendarvis | January 25, 1971 ( #71000038) |
114 Shake Rag St. 42°51′50″N 90°10′21″W / 42.863889°N 90.1725°W | Mineral Point | Three cottages of early lead-miners, built of local limestone in the 1840s, facing the hill where they mined. Pendarvis is the name of one, which resembles a Cornish cottage. Restored starting in 1935, and now a historical museum. [54] [55] | |
28 | Plum Grove Primitive Methodist Church | April 27, 1995 ( #95000505) |
Co. Rd. BB, 0.7 mi. S of jct. with US 18/151 42°58′04″N 90°01′11″W / 42.967778°N 90.019722°W | Ridgeway | Small Gothic Revival-style church, built in 1882 by a Methodist faction which split off over whether an organ should accompany the choir. Re-used as a community hall in 1934. [56] [57] | |
29 | Pulaski Presbyterian Church Complex | May 22, 2013 ( #13000313) |
6757 County Road P 43°08′26″N 90°24′14″W / 43.140601°N 90.403877°W | Pulaski | Wooden Gothic Revival-styled church, built in 1874 by the rural Presbyterian congregation to replace an earlier log church. Also the wooden schoolhouse built in 1901. [58] | |
30 | Rainbow Cave | June 23, 1995 ( #95000761) |
Address Restricted | Barneveld | Includes a human (female?) figure in dark pigment carrying something represented by a stack of five grooves in the sandstone. [59] | |
31 | Roberts House | September 1, 1988 ( #86002311) |
302 Front St. 43°01′04″N 89°53′47″W / 43.017778°N 89.896389°W | Barneveld | 1.5-story bungalow designed and built around 1920 by John Lewis. [60] [25] | |
32 | Roethlisberger House | September 29, 1986 ( #86002312) |
205 N. Grove St. 43°00′53″N 89°53′54″W / 43.014722°N 89.898333°W | Barneveld | Gabled-ell house with Queen Ann-styled windows and decorative shingles, probably constructed in the 1880s. [61] [62] | |
33 | Sawle Mound Group Archeological District | June 7, 1991 ( #91000672) |
Address Restricted | Arena | ||
34 | Shiprock Rockshelter | May 21, 1992 ( #92000591) |
Address Restricted 43°08′45″N 90°17′21″W / 43.145833°N 90.289167°W | Pulaski | ||
35 | Shot Tower | April 3, 1973 ( #73000080) |
SE of Spring Green in
Tower Hill State Park 43°09′01″N 90°02′48″W / 43.150278°N 90.046667°W | Spring Green | Reconstructed 1831 shot tower where regionally mined lead was manufactured into lead shot. [63] | |
36 | Spensley Farm | April 14, 1997 ( #97000330) |
1126 WI QQ, E of jct. with WI 39 42°52′07″N 90°12′04″W / 42.868611°N 90.201111°W | Mineral Point | Center of operations of British immigrant James Spensley, including the site of his lead-smelting furnace, his Italianate-styled limestone house built in the 1850s, [64] the barn where he bred cattle, his spring house, [65] and ruins of various other structures. [66] | |
37 | Spring Green Restaurant | February 8, 2024 ( #100009939) |
5607 County Highway C 43°08′38″N 90°03′34″W / 43.1439°N 90.0595°W | Wyoming | Frank Lloyd Wright designed his Riverview Terrace to serve as a restaurant for visitors to Taliesen. Construction started in 1957, paused after Wright's death in 1959, and resumed in 1966 under direction of William Wesley Peters. It operated from 1967 to 1993 as Spring Green Restaurant, when it became the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center. [67] | |
38 | Taliesin | April 14, 1973 ( #73000081) |
2 mi. S of Spring Green on WI 23 43°08′26″N 90°04′22″W / 43.140556°N 90.072778°W | Spring Green | Home, studio and farm complex of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, built in 1911 and rebuilt and modified after fires and Wright's new ideas. Includes Wright's home, the 1902 Hillside Home School, the 1938 Midway Farms, and the 1896 Romeo and Juliet Windmill. [68] [69] | |
39 | Thomas Stone Barn | March 29, 2001 ( #01000299) |
7777 WI 18-151 43°00′29″N 89°55′23″W / 43.008056°N 89.923056°W | Brigham | Largely intact barn built around 1881 for Welshman Walter Thomas, with high limestone walls and gable roof, originally built for sheltering stock and hay, and later adapted for dairying. [70] [71] | |
40 | Unity Chapel | July 18, 1974 ( #74000092) |
S of Spring Green off WI 23 43°07′57″N 90°03′39″W / 43.1325°N 90.060833°W | Spring Green | 1886 Shingle style chapel designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, with assistance from his protege Frank Lloyd Wright, for Wright's Unitarian minister uncle Jenkin Lloyd Jones. [72] | |
41 | Wyoming Valley School | June 14, 2016 ( #16000377) |
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WI 23 43°07′07″N 90°06′49″W / 43.118679°N 90.113515°W | Wyoming | Two-room grade school, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1957 in the valley where Wright spent summers as a boy. Now serves as a local cultural center. [73] |