This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richland County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Richland 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 15 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
This
National Park Service list is complete through
NPS recent listings posted April 12, 2024.
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Current listings
| [3] | Name on the Register [4] | Image | Date listed [5] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A. D. German Warehouse |  |
December 31, 1974 ( #74000122) |
316 S. Church St. 43°20′00″N 90°23′04″W / 43.333333°N 90.384444°W | Richland Center | Warehouse designed in Mayan Revival style in 1915 by Frank Lloyd Wright, native son of Richland Center. Alfred D. German was a wholesale distributor of cement, coal and grain. [6] |
| 2 | Bloyer Mound Group |  |
September 18, 2006 ( #06000873) |
WI 60, 1,500 ft (460 m). SW of Cty Hwy 00 43°12′07″N 90°24′36″W / 43.201944°N 90.41°W | Orion | Well-preserved group of mounds built by ancient Native Americans near the Wisconsin River: 3 bird effigies, 2 lizards, 1 bear, eight linear mounds and 1 conical. A.k.a. Twin Lizard Mounds. On state land. [7] [8] |
| 3 | Julia B. and Fred P. Bowen House |  |
July 5, 1996 ( #96000729) |
220 E. Union St. 43°20′15″N 90°23′01″W / 43.3375°N 90.383611°W | Richland Center | Julia was the first president of Richland Center's Women's Club starting in 1882, and a pioneer for women's suffrage in Wisconsin. Fred built the house for her in 1869. Today it is a mix of Italianate and Colonial Revival styles. [9] |
| 4 | Clipped Wing Eagle Mound |  |
November 15, 2005 ( #05001300) |
Address Restricted | Eagle | |
| 5 | Court Street Commercial Historic District |  |
November 13, 1989 ( #89001955) |
Roughly bounded by Mill, Church, Haseltine, and Main Sts. 43°20′09″N 90°23′07″W / 43.335833°N 90.385278°W | Richland Center | The historic district in downtown Richland Center includes 50 commercial buildings in Late Victorian styles constructed from 1870 to 1938. [10] |
| 6 | Cunningham Lane Bridge |  |
July 5, 1996 ( #96000731) |
Hansberry Lane, near Fancy Cr. 43°23′40″N 90°24′45″W / 43.394444°N 90.4125°W | Rockbridge | Pratt full-slope pony truss bridge across the Pine River, built by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company in 1895. One of the earliest remaining Pratt truss bridges in the state. [11] |
| 7 | Eagle Township Mound Group | |
November 15, 2005 ( #05001301) |
Address Restricted | Eagle | |
| 8 | Henry Fiedler House |  |
December 29, 1986 ( #86003515) |
Putnam and Washington Sts. 43°12′18″N 90°25′32″W / 43.205°N 90.425556°W | Orion | 1860 house built of rough-coursed stone and barn built 1914. A.k.a. Ellen Hale House. [12] |
| 9 | Hunting Eagle Mound | |
November 15, 2005 ( #05001299) |
Address Restricted | Eagle | |
| 10 | Richland Center Archeological District | |
September 30, 1993 ( #93001006) |
Address Restricted | Richland Center | |
| 11 | Richland Center City Auditorium |  |
August 18, 1980 ( #80000182) |
182 N. Central Ave. 43°20′09″N 90°23′08″W / 43.335833°N 90.385556°W | Richland Center | The local Women's Club promoted a state law to allow municipalities to operate income-generating properties, and this was the first such property, built in 1912. Contains city offices, meeting rooms, and a 900-seat auditorium, which hosted minstrel shows, concerts, motion pictures, and lectures by William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft. [13] |
| 12 | Shadewald I Mound Group | |
February 7, 2007 ( #07000035) |
north of Muscoda along 193 | Eagle Township | Well-preserved sequence of effigy mounds built by ancient Native Americans on a hilltop: possibly including beaver, bird, bison and coyote. A.k.a. Frank's Hill and Elder Group. [14] [15] (The first reference has great aerial photos online.) |
| 13 | Shadewald II Mound Group | |
October 2, 2008 ( #08000963) |
north of Muscoda along 193 | Eagle Township | Well-preserved line of twelve conical mounds built by ancient Native Americans on a hilltop - possibly with some time-keeping purpose [14] (Summaries of I & II may be flipped in this list.) |
| 14 | Syttende Mai Site | |
December 30, 1991 ( #91001869) |
Address Restricted | Richland | |
| 15 | Tippesaukee Farm Rural Historic District |  |
January 4, 1996 ( #92000827) |
Jct. of WI Trunk Hwy. 60 and Co. Trunk Hwy. X, Town of Richwood 43°12′27″N 90°34′36″W / 43.2075°N 90.576667°W | Port Andrew | John Coumbe, the first settler in the county, built a log cabin here in 1838. He built the timbered barn in 1861 and the current farmhouse in 1863. Previously the site of a Ho-Chunk village named Tippesaukee. [16] This site was NRHP-listed as John Coumbe Farmstead on June 25, 1992, then subsumed by the larger historic district in 1996. |
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin
- Listings in neighboring counties: Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Sauk, Vernon
References
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- ^ 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 April 12, 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.
- ^ Sullivan, Mary Ann. "A. D. German Warehouse". Bluffton College. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^ "Twin Lizard Mound Group". WisconsinMounds.com. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^ "Orion Mussel Bed (No. 298)". Wisconsin State Natural Areas Program. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^ "Bowen, Julia B. and Fred P., House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
- ^ "Court Street Commercial Historic District". Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
- ^ * Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WI-51, " Cunningham Lane Bridge, Spanning Pine River on Cunningham Lane, Rockbridge, Richland County, WI", 7 photos, 9 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- ^ "Fiedler, Henry and Louisa, House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
- ^ "Richland Center City Auditorium". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
- ^ a b "Shadewald Mounds". WisconsinMounds.com. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^ Schoenebeck, Kevin (December 2012 – January 2013). "Frank's Hill is Tops". Our Wisconsin. 1 (1). Roy Reiman: 4–5.
- ^ "John and Sara Coumbe Farmstead". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
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