This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Manitowoc 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.
90-foot wooden scow-schooner built by Smith Neville, Sr. in Sheboygan in 1869. Mainly hauled lumber on Lake Michigan. Pushed ashore by a gale March 23, 1879, while carrying wheat to Ahnapee her remains now lie in 5 feet of water.[6]
76.5 foot harbor tug, built in 1881 by Rand and Burger of Manitowoc with a wooden hull and a steam-screw drive. Escorted Goodrich steamers and other vessels around Manitowoc, Milwaukee and Chicago harbors for 49 years. Then stripped and abandoned in 1930.[7][8]
A fairly intact part of the old business district, with contributing structures built from 1850 to 1948. Buildings are significant for commerce, education, and social history, and many are fine examples of various 19th and early 20th century architecture styles.[9]
This 244-foot wood-hulled steam screw bulk carrier was built 1882 in Cleveland. She hauled iron and coal until December of 1904, when in a snowstorm she ran onto a sandbar off Rawley Point, while trying to reach dry dock in Manitowoc for the winter.[11]
Manitowoc's old downtown, with contributing structures built from the 1850s to 1930s. Many first stories are remodeled, but the upper stories are intact and historic.[12]
Built in 1867 and sized to carry a maximum load through the Welland Canal locks, the Floretta carried grain and ore up and down the Great Lakes. She sank in a storm in 1885 and lies wrecked under 180 feet of water.[13][14]
152-foot wooden steambarge built in Manitowoc by Danish immigrants Hanson and Scove in 1889. She was broken up in November 1909, hauling lumber from Manistique to Chicago.[15]
The part of Two Rivers identified with commercial fishing for 167 years - a longer continuous span than any other city on the Great Lakes. Structures include French-Canadian homes as old as 1855, fish sheds, ice houses, smoke houses, and net-drying racks.[16][17]
This early 95-foot wooden schooner was built in 1832 in Ohio for Michael Dousman. She traded goods from out East for furs from Wisconsin, carried passengers, and had various mishaps. Finally sank in a gale in 1851, and now sits largely intact under 210 feet of water.[18]
1906 brick-clad home in Colonial Revival style, with a gambrel roof shingled with ornamental pressed sheet-metal. Heins was a German immigrant who opened a general store in Kiel in 1861, helped found Kiel Woodenware, Kiel Manufacturing, and the Kiel State Bank, and served in various civic roles.[21][22]
Small lakeshoring schooner built in Portland, Ohio in 1843. Initially hauled grain and merchandise on Lake Erie; later lumber on Lake Michigan. Sank in 1858 after a collision with another schooner.[23]
German immigrant William Meyer built this first flouring mill in Kiel beside the Sheboygan River in 1883, toward the end of Wisconsin's wheat-growing heyday. Converted to steam power around 1894. The Klemmes bought it in 1919 and later converted to electric power.[25][26]
139-foot three-masted schooner built in 1874 by Parsons & Humble of Tonawanda, built to hold maximum grain yet fit through the locks of the Welland Canal. On October 25, 1875, heading with a load of wheat from Chicago for Buffalo, she was damaged in a gale, caught in quicksand, and wrecked.[29]
127-foot wooden schooner built in 1855 by George Hardison of Buffalo, NY. Sailed the Great Lakes for many years, with cargoes including grain, coal and lumber. Grounded off Rawley Point April 29, 1897, heading from Chicago to Masonville, Michigan in a northeast gale.[40]
"Long" house built by German immigrants in 1850, with the family's home at one end and cattle housing at the other. Framed from hand-hewn timbers in the fachwerk style, it is believed to be one of only three such structures left in the U.S.[43][44]
5-story factory built by Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company in 1929. Mirro built its Mirro-Craft aluminum pleasure boat here from 1958 to 1962.[48] In 2015, the plant was converted to loft apartments for artists.[49]
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National Tinsel and Toy Manufacturing Company Building
William Protz's factory that made Christmas tinsel, with its first section designed by Earl Miller and built in 1918, and additions in 1919, 1926, and 1927 designed by William Raeuber.[50]
190-foot three-masted wooden schooner with an unusual keelson, built in Detroit in 1869. In November of 1886, carrying a load of iron ore from Marquette, a squall drove her ashore, where she now sits under 12 to 15 feet of water in quicksand, largely intact.[51]
2+1⁄2-story wooden mill built on Devil's River in 1847 as a sawmill by Pliny Pierce and Mr. Bruce. Converted to a gristmill in the 1850s, much of the original grinding machinery is still in place.[54][55]
The Christmas Tree Ship. 124-foot 3-masted double-centerboard lumber schooner built in 1868. Later in her career she was used to haul Christmas trees from Thompson, Michigan to Chicago, and sank in November 1912, with all hands lost.[56][57]
160-foot wooden steam barge built in 1871 to carry iron ore from Escanaba to Milwaukee and Chicago. Later carried lumber and coal until it sank in Green Bay in 1903. Raised and repurposed for hauling limestone out of Sturgeon Bay until she sank in August of 1908, losing one man.[58]
The Greek Revival-styled stucco-clad building[65] was constructed as an orphanage and hospital in 1866-67 by Father Oschwald's utopian community, then converted to a convent in 1896 when the Sisters of the Divine Savior took over.[60] Now Maria Haus.
Gable-roofed brick Italianate home with porte cochere, built in 1878 at the southeast end of Evergreen Cemetery to house its keeper, the sexton.[67][68]
137-foot wooden canal barque built in 1866 by J.M. Jones of Detroit, built to carry grain between Chicago and New York via the Welland Canal. On Nov 26, 1867, heading out from Milwaukee carrying 18,000 bushels of wheat, she ran ashore just off Two Rivers, and settled into quicksand.[69]
2.5-story home designed by Ferry & Clas in Shingle style and built in 1891. In Manitowoc Vilas helped run a general store and shipped grain, served as village president and state senator, and promoted a railroad. He moved west for mining, then returned in 1890 and built this house. Reinhardt Rahr was a local brewer who lived here starting in 1910.[74][75] Now the Rahr-West Art Museum.
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Ruth St. John and John Dunham West House and Gardens
Streamline Moderne-style house built in 1934, surrounded by extensive gardens. Ruth was a garden expert who started local garden clubs and travelled through the Midwest lecturing and demonstrating.[76][77]
^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.
^Cartwright, Carol Lohry (1998-10-01). "Central Park Historic District". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
^ abLocation given in Kohl, Cris (2001). The Great Lakes Diving Guide. West Chicago, Ill.: Seawolf Communications, Inc. NRIS lists site as "address restricted".
^"Loretto Shrine Chapel". Manitowoc County - Where History Lives. Manitowoc County Historical Organization. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
^Zant, Caitlin; Thomsen, Tamara (2014-02-03). "Pathfinder Shipwreck (Schooner)"(PDF). NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-01-19. Some nice photos are included at the end of this doc.
^Causier, Charles W.; Gosse, Robert J. (1993-12-29). "Two Rivers Post Office". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
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