This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Grant 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 39 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Designed by Van Ryn & DeGelleke in Neoclassical style and built in 1916, this hall contained a forge room, a farm carpentry room, a dairy lab, a stock judging room, a gym, etc. The specialized training it allowed was a milestone in the state normal school system. Now known as Ullrich Hall, oldest remaining academic building at UW-Platteville.[5][6]
1877 brick Italianate house with two 2-story bay windows. After losing a leg, James lent money and raised plants and livestock. His house is little changed, since it stood vacant from the death of his wife Abbie in 1937 until 1975.[9][10]
J.H. Rountree, founder of Platteville, built his Greek Revival home in this district in 1853[12] and it was the only house until 1890, when he died. Then his heirs subdivided the parcel and it quickly filled in with turn-of-the-century homes, including the 1890 Queen Anne Jenning house,[13] the 1908 American Foursquare Webster house,[14] the 1915 Craftsman W.N. Smith house,[15] and the 1940 Georgian Revival L.A. Wills house.[16][17]
2-story Victorian Gothic home built in 1870, clad with local brick. Captain William Beebe was a New York native, a Civil War vet, a lawyer, mayor of Platteville, and an inventor. By 1877 he had an electrical telephone communicating between Platteville and Lancaster, only a year after Alexander Graham Bell's first long-distance line.[18][19]
Originally a Baptist church built in 1879, the building was bought by the GAR in 1896 and remodeled as a meeting hall.[20] Still in use as a meeting hall and museum.
3-story Italianate-styled hotel built of limestone from 1865 to 1873. The Gideons (which places Bibles in hotel rooms) was conceived here in 1898 when two businessmen shared room 19.[23]
Brick Italianate-style house built in 1868 by Coates, a miner from Yorkshire who moved into the lead smelting business and served Platteville as mayor and by helping bring the railroad.[24]
Modest 2-story brick house with the massing and simple window trim of Greek Revival style, built in 1864 for Welsh immigrant blacksmith Edward Davies, and little changed since then.[32]
Brick hotel built in 1836 in hopes that Cassville would become the capital of Wisconsin Territory. Wisconsin's first governor Nelson Dewey lived here and died in 1889, after his financial ruin.[33][34]
Small residential historic district, including the 1895 Gabled Ell Nicklas house,[35] 1906 Queen Anne Robinson house,[36] the 1908 Queen Anne/American Foursquare Barden house,[37] and the 1905 American Foursquare Grindell house.[38][39]
1870 home which mixes elements of Italianate design with Queen Anne. Evans was a school teacher, storekeeper, civic leader, bank organizer, and an early shaper of Wisconsin's normal school system.[40][41]
1891 Boomtown-front frame building which originally housed the Town Clerk's office and a civic auditorium which hosted dances, church functions, vaudeville acts, patent medicine peddlers, commencements, movies, and a jail.[45]
Limestone clad home built for Patrick Kinney, a successful Lancaster attorney, his wife, Margaret, and their growing family, in 1951-1953 from a design supplied by Frank Lloyd Wright.[46]
Brick Prairie School civic building trimmed in terra cotta, designed by Claude & Starck and build in 1923. Originally housed city offices, fire department, and 800-seat theater.[47]
Includes the area of Platteville's early business districts on Second Street and Main, platted like an English village with narrow streets, narrow lots, and a village green.[50] Includes the 1847 Federal-styled Parnell Building (pictured),[51] the 1853 Hendershot Harness Shop,[52] the 1876 Italianate Kettler building,[53] the 1906 Italianate Wedige Saloon,[54] the 1906 Queen Anne Dr. Cunningham house,[55] the 1914 Tudor RevivalCarnegie Library,[56] the 1924 Neoclassical First National Bank,[57] and the 1938 Art Deco Municipal Building.[58]
Early 1.5-story cottage built of carefully fit dolomite for Rev. Samuel Mitchell in a style from his native Virginia. Mitchell had served in the Revolutionary War. John Rountree, founder of Platteville, married Mitchell's daughter, probably built the house, and Rountrees lived there for many years.[59][60]
Lead-mining site on a ridge from at least 1833, consisting of the remains of two structures, over 100 test pits, and a possible adit. Possibly the only site of its kind remaining from the era.[63]
Limestone brewing plant begun by Gabriel Hail in 1852, and expanded over the years by the Schumachers. Once the 5th largest brewery in Wisconsin. Now a museum.[64]
The Rock School was built 1858-63, a 2-story structure with walls of coursed limestone and roof and window treatments in Greek Revival style.[65] The Hanmer Robbins School is a 2-story Richardsonian Romanesque high school built around 1905. Both are now part of a museum complex.[66]
Greek Revival-styled hall begun in 1853 to house the Platteville Academy, one of Wisconsin's earliest educational institutions. Also housed the state's first normal school in 1866. Wings and cupola were added in subsequent years. Now part of UW-Platteville.[67][68]
2-story brick mansion built in Greek Revival style in 1854, with a 2-story porch that gives it a southern flavor. Rountree was born in Kentucky, came to Wisconsin in 1827 prospecting for lead, opened the first store and lead-smelting furnace in 1828, served in the Black Hawk War, platted Platteville, and did much to develop the area. Now owned by UW-Platteville.[12][69]
Natural cave where Native Americans and the French dug galena as early as 1700. Around 1828 Willis St. John began mining the veins that ran back into the hillside. He was broke by 1848 and sold the mine to Nelson Dewey and Henry Massey, who closed it, exhausted, in 1870.[70]
Farm/estate on a hillside above the Mississippi, started by Nelson Dewey in the 1860s after he was Wisconsin's first governor, with original Gothic Revival outbuildings. Now a museum, with agricultural museum and recreated farming village.[71][72]
Very-intact brick church designed by Garry Nettleton in Gothic Revival style and built in 1864, with a square tower, buttresses, and rose window. Has served its Episcopal congregation continuously ever since.[73]
^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.
^Causier, Charles W.; Jurkiewicz, Joseph G. (1993-12-29). "Lancaster Post Office". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
