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3-story Romanesque Revival commercial building built in 1895, during the railroad boom. After Luther Lindauer lost a hand in a planing mill accident, he drove horses, worked on the canal, ran a quarry, an ice business, a fuel business, a brickyard, and served as mayor of Kaukauna for 3 terms. His building later housed the Elks Club for many ...
4-story commercial building built in 1855 with Italianate styling, with five stores at street level and offices and an auditorium above. Renovated in 1899 under the direction of Arthur Peabody, adding the Queen Anne-styled round corner towers and touted as Janesville's "first modern office building." 74: LaPrairie Grange Hall No. 79
In 1851 Wisconsin's Board of Public Works contracted for locks and a dam to be built around the rapids at Kaukauna, but by 1853 this wasn't done and the money was exhausted. The project was turned over to a private venture, the Fox River Improvement Company, and it got the land grant expanded. [ 3 ]
The first building constructed on the Beloit College campus, Middle College is the oldest academic building still in use in Wisconsin [54] and serves as the college's administrative offices. [55] North Hall: Madison: 1851 Academic Oldest extant building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [56] Pottawatomie Light: Rock Island: 1858 Lighthouse
Large Queen Anne house designed by Waters and built in 1888 for Richard W. Guenther, a Prussian immigrant, Oshkosh druggist, Wisconsin state treasurer, US Congressman, and diplomat. From 1906 to 1913 the large house also hosted the new Lakeside Sanitorium and Training School for Nurses, which later evolved into Mercy Medical Center. [50] 31
Wrecks of three wooden ships commingled on the reef SW of the island: the 115-foot scow-schooner Forest built in 1857 and wrecked by a storm in October of 1891, the 147-foot schooner A. P. Nichols built in 1861 and wrecked by a storm in October of 1892, and the 138-foot canaller-schooner J. E. Gilmore, built in 1867 and wrecked by another storm ...
Four-story brick shoe factory built in 1904. Beals and Torrey had the largest payroll in Watertown from 1917 through 1954. The building housed the Kusel Dairy Equipment factory from the 1930s to 1960s. [6] Now apartments. [7] 4: Bean Lake Islands Archeological District: Bean Lake Islands Archeological District: August 12, 1982 : Address Restricted
Here are some surviving historic buildings in the district, roughly in the order built: The Coates and Ostrander Store at N88 W16672 Main Street is a 2-story store built between 1864 and 1869 by Adam Ploss. The building has a wedge-shaped footprint to fit its corner lot, with cream brick walls and a bracketed cornice which drew on Italianate style.