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.[1]
There are 63 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another 3 properties were once listed but have been removed.
Residential neighborhood with many Victorian and early 20th century houses associated with Green Bay leaders;[9] Named for John Jacob Astor, who founded the town of Astor at this location in 1835[10]
Brick store built in 1903, with cast-iron columns and pressed-metal ceiling and cornice, with commercial space on the first floor and apartments on second. The Baeten family owned the store into the 1970s.[11]
Commercial district of 12 structures built 1873–1947;[13] Original businesses include retail, warehouses, hotels, and a wholesale and canning company[14][15]
Commercial district of 20 structures built 1879–1947;[16] Original businesses include dry-goods retail, warehouses, saloons, a news depot, a bank, a dance hall, and an auto dealership which was renovated to become the West Theater (later The Tarlton Theatre)[14][15][17][18]
The last of 24 locks on the Fox between Portage and De Pere, operated since the 1850s. Includes a Dutch Colonial Revival lock-keeper's house. One of two hand-operated locks left in the U.S.[24]
Italianate house with a cupola, built from 1862 to 1867. Fisk was a lawyer, postmaster, and Register of the local land office, ran a fishing operation, and platted the city of Fort Howard.[15]
1830 Federal-style building,[27] in which Fort Howard's officers lived with their families. This building is currently interpreted at the park as the Company Kitchen/Orderly Room. The structure at the park named Fort Howard Officers' Quarters is a reproduction built in 1982.[28][29]
The FranciscanFriars of Pulaski opened a printery in 1907 to publish Miesiecznik Franciszkanski, a Polish-language religious magazine. In 1941 they built the 3-story block, designed by Levi A Geniesse, with religious images around the door. The one-story wing was added in 1961-62. Printing operated until 2001. Now the building houses the friars' archives.[32]
Cluster of 38 historic buildings in the old downtown, including the 1902 Schauer & Schumacher Furniture store,[34] the 1908–1911 Beaux Arts Brown County Courthouse,[19] the 1915 Chicago-style Bellin building,[35] the 1924 Tudor Revival Hotel Northland,[36] the 1926 Schauer & Schumacher Funeral Chapel,[37] and the 1930 Art Deco Meyer Theatre.[31][38]
Large stone-clad YMCA building designed by Foeller, Schober & Stephenson/Berners-Schober. The original 1924 building is in Tudor Revival style and the 1968 addition in a more Contemporary style.[39][40]
Large Mediterranean Revival-style home designed by Foeller & Schober and built in 1920. Herman and his brother started Marine Construction Company in 1896, building bridges, docks and ship machinery around the Midwest. He also co-founded Hartmann-Greiling Machine and Boiler Works in 1911, and was involved in civic, financial and social institutions.[41][42]
Simple side-gabled boarding house built by the Weed Brothers around 1869, during the lumber era. A.k.a. Weed Mill Inn. Now the Shoppes at Vickery Village.[47][48]
The Classical Revival library was built in 1903 and the matching museum was added in 1926. Kellog was a banker[52] and Neville was mayor of Green Bay.[53] This was the first Carnegie library in Wisconsin.[54]
Prominent Neoclassical-style house built in 1940, designed by Harry W. Williams for the Kohls. Edward managed the Green Bay H. C. Prange Co. store at the time.[55]
General machine shop built in 1879. Charles Lawton invented a bran dresser, which separated bran from flour.[56] Functioned until 1971. Now redeveloped as apartments.[57]
Modern Movement-style home designed by John C. Tilleman and built in 1963 for 88-year-old Agnes and her daughter Ruth. They were socially prominent, widows by this time, who needed to downsize from an old multi-story house. Built with brick from a family business.[58][59]
On completion in 1903, Main Hall was St. Norbert College, containing classrooms, dormitory and commons. The style is Richardsonian Romanesque, and today it is the architectural center of the campus.[62]
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Mansion Street WWII Defense Housing Historic District
String of modest 1-story Cape Cod-style homes built by Ralph Belanger and Standard Lumber Yards, Inc. 1941-42 to house families working on defense jobs. No other suburbs were built in De Pere during WWII because of rationing of materials.[63]
Large contemporary-style apartment designed by Nichols and Barone, Inc. and built in 1972 by the Green Bay Housing Authority to address a shortage of modestly priced housing for seniors.[64][65]
Designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Flemish Renaissance Revival style and built in 1898 for the Milwaukee Road, the depot served the east side of Green Bay until 1957.
The Albert C. & Ellen H. Neufeld House was built by Mr. & Mrs. Albert C. Neufeld in 1940–1941. It was designed by Clarence O. Jahn of Foeller, Schober, Berners, Safford, & Jahn of Green Bay in the Georgian Revival style. Albert Ebner was responsible for the original interior decorating. Lowell Hansen designed the grounds with Jens Jensen being an active consultant on the landscaping on the original property, making it one of the few Jens Jensen properties in Wisconsin. The house is distinguished by its lack of hallways, all rooms are connected by galleries, and by a sweeping 260 foot view through the center of the house, ending in the arbor in the center of the rose garden.[73][74][75]
School building designed in Neoclassical style by Foeller, Schober, and Stephenson of Green Bay and built in 1923. Served as a public high school until 1958, when it was bought by Abbott Pennings High School, which used it as a Catholic school until 1990, when it was bought by St. Norbert College, which uses it as classrooms and administrative office space.[77]
After the 1882 fire destroyed entire blocks of wooden businesses east of the river, they rebuilt with brick, almost blending the buildings' facades because they used similar cream-colored brick.[98]
Large commercial building built in 1888 in an ornate Italianate style. Street level housed a meat market, saloon and liquor store, and the second floor apartments.[99]
In 1776, French-Canadian voyageur Joseph Roi built the first part of the cottage using the pièce-sur-pièce à coulisse technique. The building served as a local headquarters for British operations during the War of 1812. In 1850, Moravian missionaryNils Otto Tank bought it, added the wings, and covered the building in clapboard. Originally located on 8th Street in Green Bay, the building was moved to Heritage Hill State Historical Park in 1976. It is the oldest extant building from Wisconsin's early history.[100][101]
In 1851–52, a Moravian congregation built their church in Greek Revival style on Moravian Street in downtown Green Bay. Later moved to Heritage Hill.[106]
^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.
^ abNumbers 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.
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