National Register of Historic Places listings in Sauk County, Wisconsin
Last updated
Location of Sauk County in Wisconsin
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sauk County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Sauk 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 62 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Three of these are further designated as National Historic Landmarks.
Livery stable, built in 1911 near the hotels and the depot, where a traveler could rent a horse and buggy or board a horse. Only a few livery buildings are left in the state.[8][12]
Derleth built this home from local limestone near his beloved Wisconsin River about 1939 to house his books and his writing career. He called his home Place of Hawks.[13][14]
The lake between two stone bluffs was sacred to Native Americans, who built effigy mounds on its shores. The state park was founded in 1911. The CCCs built most of the rustic structures in the 1930s. Now Wisconsin's largest and most popular state park.[15]
Small iron mine opened in 1910 by C.T. Roberts and closed the next year when it abruptly flooded, leaving shafts, tools, tracks and ore carts submerged and undisturbed since 1911. Foundations of the engine house, compressor, boiler house, and rail spur remain above ground.[29]
1884 meeting hall designed by Alfred Clas. The Freethinkers' congregation was formed by German immigrants in 1852, and meets to this day, the last such congregation in North America.[30]
Red brick house built between 1850 and 1857. Hahn, an immigrant harness-maker bought the house in 1866 and built a workshop next to it. After his wife Lisette died in 1871, he raised the children in the house.[33]
Rural area settled chiefly by immigrants from Graubünden canton, Switzerland starting in 1842. Some characteristic stone and timber-framed buildings remain.[36]
Only remaining building from textile mill complex, designed by Claude & Starck in Prairie School style and built 1917-18.[38] In the 1920s, Island Woolen was the biggest employer in Sauk County.[39]
Commercial buildings in various styles, ranging from the 1873 Italianate Kelsey Block to the 1888 Romanesque Revival Free Press Block, to the large 1896 Queen Anne Hotel Stolte, to the 1920 Neoclassical Reedsburg Bank.[41]
Camelback through truss bridge across the Baraboo River, built in 1884 by Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works.[43] Moved to a park around 1987. Now the last remaining bridge of this type in the state.[44]
1.5-story Arts and Crafts/Craftsmanstucco-clad house with banks of casement windows and wide eaves, designed by Morton Pereira and built in 1921. The Marcuses owned department stores, including Nina's in Spring Green.[45]
Small Georgian Revival municipal building built in 1928 with a bequest from Roujet D. Marshall, a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice from the area. The building houses a library, offices and a meeting room.[46]
Neogothic Revival-styled funeral chapel in Greenwood Cemetery, designed by Leigh Hunt and built in 1940. Then used to store bodies when the ground was too frozen for digging.[10][48]
Small modernist cottage built in 1958, overlooking Mirror Lake. Frank Lloyd Wright's last building in Wisconsin. Now available for rental and tours.[51]
A brewery started at this site in 1870, using locally-grown hops. It burned in 1903, was rebuilt in 1905 with 8,000 barrel capacity, and ran until 1950, except during Prohibition. Now apartments.[8]
The mill converted local wool into products from army blankets to commercial goods for Montgomery Ward and Sears. With 200 employees, it was Reedsburg's largest employer for much of its 80 years,[8] from around 1881 to 1967.[57]
Winter quarters for the Ringling Brothers Circus from 1884 to 1919, including the Ring Barn for horses and the Elephant House. Now part of Circus World Museum.[60]
Church of block and stack masonry built in 1875.[66] The congregation formed at the site in 1844 was the focus of the Swiss community. A.k.a. Ragatz Church.[67]
Firehouse built in 1889, with hose-drying tower added in 1894. Also served as village hall.[40] The volunteer fire department had organized in 1854, the first in the state.[68]
Stolte Sr. built the house in the 1880s, mixing the styles of Victorian Gothic and Queen Anne. A smokehouse and hitching post are in the back yard. Stolte built the hotel at 204 Main.[8]
J. S. Tripp, a local banker, lawyer and public servant, donated funds to build a library and village hall. William Dresen and Alfred C. Clas designed it in Neoclassical style and it opened in 1913.[76]
Tudor Revival house designed by Ferry & Clas and built in 1903. Van Orden had worked his way up from "general utility boy" to president of the First National Bank of Baraboo. Now houses the Sauk County Historical Museum.[80]
Sauk County is a county in Wisconsin. It is named after a large village of the Sauk people. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,763. Its county seat and largest city is Baraboo. The county was created in 1840 from Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1844. Sauk County comprises the Baraboo, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Madison metropolitan area.
Baraboo is a city in the Midwest and the county seat of Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The largest city in the county, Baraboo is the principal city of the Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area which comprises a portion of the Madison Combined Statistical area. Its 2020 population was 12,556. It is situated on the Baraboo River.
Reedsburg is a city in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. Located along the Baraboo River, it was founded in 1868, and was named for early settler David C. Reed. The city is surrounded by the Town of Reedsburg. It is part of the Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Circus World Museum is a museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin, devoted to circus-related history. The museum features circus artifacts and exhibits and hosts daily live circus performances throughout the summer. It is owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society and operated by the non-profit Circus World Museum Foundation. The museum was the major participant in the Great Circus Parade held from 1963 to 2009.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dane County, Wisconsin. It aims to provide a comprehensive listing of buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects in Dane County, Wisconsin listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
State Trunk Highway 136 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs east–west in southwest Wisconsin from near Reedsburg to Baraboo. The route was first designated in 1917 but not as WIS 136 until 1935. The route was extended in 2017.
Main Street Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Reedsburg, Wisconsin that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was listed alongside the Park Street Historic District. The district consists of 21 commercial buildings. Eighteen of the buildings are brick and three are of stone construction.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brown County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Brown County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Walworth County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Walworth County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ashland County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Ashland County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
Ferry & Clas was an architectural firm in Wisconsin. It designed many buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. George Bowman Ferry and Alfred Charles Clas were partners.
Beastro & Barley, formerly Touchdown Tavern, Town Club Bar or Roper's City Hotel, is a restaurant and bar in a historic hotel building in the Second Empire style at 125 East Main Street in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States. The two-storey red brick structure with stone trim and a mansard roof was designed by Edward M. Hackett and constructed in 1886 for $10,000. It includes arched window frames, brick detailing on the facade and a small porch with ornamental metal balustrade on the second floor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Wisconsin in 1984. It was built by the Reedsburg Building & Lumber Co.
The Man Mound is a precontact earthwork of a humanoid figure located in Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin, east of the city of Baraboo. Constructed during the Late Woodland period, the mound is the only surviving anthropomorphic effigy mound in North America. The mound depicts a humanoid figure with horns or a horned headdress and may have held religious or ceremonial significance to its builders. The mound was preserved as a county park in 1908, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2016.
The Sauk County Courthouse, located at 515 Oak Street in Baraboo, is the county courthouse serving Sauk County, Wisconsin. Built in 1906, the courthouse is Sauk County's fourth and its third in Baraboo. Wisconsin architecture firm Ferry & Clas designed the Neoclassical building. The courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Park Street Historic District is a historic district in Reedsburg, Wisconsin that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was listed alongside the Main Street Commercial Historic District.
The Reedsburg Woolen Mill was a historic woolen mill along the Baraboo River in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The woolen mill was the largest employer in Reedsburg for much of its life, employing over 200 people. The woolen mill was built in 1891 and lasted until 1968, when most of it burned down, leaving the office building intact. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Reedsburg Brewery is a historic brewery located in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The company was founded in the 1860s, during the hops boom. The building was rebuilt in 1904, after a large fire destroyed the original structure. The Reedsburg Brewery served as the primary manufacturer of beer for the city, up until Prohibition, in the 1920s. It reopened again in 1933, but eventually had to close in 1950 due to decreasing sales. In 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
References
↑ 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.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
