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The North Washington Street Historic District in Watertown, Wisconsin is a 27 acres (11 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It included 102 contributing buildings and eight non-contributing ones. [1] [2] It spans the border of Dodge County, Wisconsin and Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It ...
The Main Street Commercial Historic District is located in Watertown, Wisconsin.. The district is made up of Watertown's old downtown with 127 contributing buildings, including the 1855 Commercial Vernacular Johnson Drug Store, [2] the 1855 Italianate Dennis Block, [3] the 1858 Italianate Misegades Wagon Works, [4] the 1876 Queen Anne/Romanesque Platz and Brandt dry goods Store, [5] and the ...
It was still in the Richards family until the death of his grandson, William Thomas, in 1935. The family offered to sell the house to the city (reputedly for $1) but it was sold to the Watertown Historical Society (founded 1933), and opened to the public in 1938. [3] [4] The house is still a museum open to the public.
The Richards Hill Residential Historic District is a national historic district in Watertown, Wisconsin. [1] The district includes 62 buildings, nearly all of which are houses, of which 51 are considered contributing buildings to the district's historic character.
Jesse Stone, a Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, resided at 300 South Washington Street in what is now the district. The district includes examples of most popular architectural styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Federal , Italianate , Second Empire , Queen Anne , Craftsman , Colonial Revival , and Georgian ...
Watertown: Watertown's old downtown with 127 contributing buildings, including the 1855 Commercial Vernacular Johnson Drug Store, [76] the 1855 Italianate Dennis Block, [77] the 1858 Italianate Misegades Wagon Works, [78] the 1876 Queen Anne/Romanesque Platz and Brandt dry goods Store, [79] and the 1907 Neoclassical Public Library. [80] [81] 34
This list of museums in Wisconsin encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Watertown is located in southeastern Wisconsin, approximately midway between Madison and Milwaukee, at 43°12'N 88°43'W (43.193, −88.724). [20] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 12.46 square miles (32.27 km 2 ), of which, 12.06 square miles (31.24 km 2 ) is land and 0.40 square miles (1.04 km 2 ) is ...