National Register of Historic Places listings in Marinette County, Wisconsin facts for kids
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marinette County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Marinette County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
There are 12 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Current listings
Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
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1 | Amberg Town Hall |
(#81000048) |
One third mile off U.S. 141 on County V. 45°30′09″N 87°59′40″W / 45.5025°N 87.994444°W |
Amberg | Designed by Charles Maass of Marinette in Queen Anne style and built in 1894, the hall housed a jail, a clerk's office and a community hall used for live entertainers, Christmas plays, meetings, dances and basketball games. | |
2 | Bijou Theatre Building |
(#93000159) |
1722-1726 Main St. 45°05′58″N 87°37′47″W / 45.099444°N 87.629722°W |
Marinette | Classical Revival building built in 1905 as a department store and vaudeville theater for Frank Lauerman. As vaudeville succumbed to motion pictures, it was converted to a movie theater. | |
3 | Mary and Harry Brown House |
(#15000713) |
1931 Riverside Ave. 45°06′08″N 87°37′57″W / 45.1023°N 87.6325°W |
Marinette | Lumber baron and Senator Isaac Stephenson had this house along the Menominee River built in 1885 in Queen Anne style for his daughter Mary. In the 1920s it was remodelled to the then-more-fashionable Tudor Revival style. | |
4 | Chautauqua Grounds Site |
(#97000367) |
Address Restricted |
Marinette | An archaeological site of the Old Copper Culture. | |
5 | Dunlap Square Building |
(#92000026) |
1821 Hall St. 45°05′58″N 87°37′55″W / 45.099444°N 87.631944°W |
Marinette | This Queen Anne styled business block built from 1890 to 1902 has housed a drug store, a saloon, a telephone exchange, restaurants, shops, and various offices. | |
6 | Independent Order of Odd Fellows-Lodge No. 189 Building |
(#98001597) |
1335 Main St. 45°05′42″N 87°37′18″W / 45.095°N 87.621667°W |
Marinette | Two-story brick Odd Fellows lodge built in 1889. | |
7 | Lena Road School |
(#02000415) |
N2155 US 141 45°02′19″N 88°02′42″W / 45.038611°N 88.045°W |
Pound | Simple, classic one-room school built by local farmers in 1911 and used as a school until 1959. Listed on NRHP as the Kena Road School. | |
8 | Lauerman Brothers Department Store |
(#92000027) |
1701-1721 Dunlap Sq. 45°05′58″N 87°37′51″W / 45.099444°N 87.630833°W |
Marinette | The flagship of a multi-state chain of department stores based in Marinette. Complex includes the early Italianate-styled business block, the department store built from 1904 to 1924 designed in Chicago Commercial style, and the warehouse built in 1920. | |
9 | F.J. Lauerman House |
(#79000094) |
383 State St. 45°06′00″N 87°38′21″W / 45.1°N 87.639167°W |
Marinette | Spanish Colonial Revival-styled home built in 1901 for Frank Lauerman of the department store, and called Casa del Flores. | |
10 | Milwaukee Road Depot |
(#04001485) |
650 Hattie St. 45°05′55″N 87°38′17″W / 45.098611°N 87.638056°W |
Marinette | Stick style depot built in 1903 by the Milwaukee Road, originally with a women's waiting room on one end and men's on the other. | |
11 | Peshtigo Fire Cemetery |
(#70000037) |
Oconto Ave. between Peck and Ellis Aves. 45°03′23″N 87°45′15″W / 45.056389°N 87.754167°W |
Peshtigo | Graves of victims of the fire of 1871, including a mass grave of 300 men, women and children who could not be identified. | |
12 | Peshtigo Reef Light |
(#07000404) |
Offshore in lower Green Bay, approx. 3.3 mi (5.3 km). SE of Peshtigo Point 44°57′31″N 87°34′48″W / 44.958611°N 87.58°W |
Peshtigo Township | Lighthouse built in 1936 to warn ships of the shoal which runs out three miles from the mouth of the Peshtigo River. A daymark marked the shoal from 1869 to 1906 and a lightship from then to 1936. (ARLHS USA 951) |
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