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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
1 Amberg Town Hall
Amberg Town Hall
March 20, 1981
(#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 / 45.5025; -87.994444 (Amberg Town Hall)
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
March 11, 1993
(#93000159)
1722-1726 Main St.
45°05′58″N 87°37′47″W / 45.099444°N 87.629722°W / 45.099444; -87.629722 (Bijou Theatre Building)
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
Mary and Harry Brown House
October 5, 2015
(#15000713)
1931 Riverside Ave.
45°06′08″N 87°37′57″W / 45.1023°N 87.6325°W / 45.1023; -87.6325 (Mary and Harry Brown House)
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
Chautauqua Grounds Site
April 29, 1997
(#97000367)
Address Restricted
Marinette An archaeological site of the Old Copper Culture.
5 Dunlap Square Building
Dunlap Square Building
February 24, 1992
(#92000026)
1821 Hall St.
45°05′58″N 87°37′55″W / 45.099444°N 87.631944°W / 45.099444; -87.631944 (Dunlap Square Building)
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
January 7, 1999
(#98001597)
1335 Main St.
45°05′42″N 87°37′18″W / 45.095°N 87.621667°W / 45.095; -87.621667 (Independent Order of Odd Fellows-Lodge No. 189 Building)
Marinette Two-story brick Odd Fellows lodge built in 1889.
7 Lena Road School
Lena Road School
April 26, 2002
(#02000415)
N2155 US 141
45°02′19″N 88°02′42″W / 45.038611°N 88.045°W / 45.038611; -88.045 (Lena Road School)
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
Lauerman Brothers Department Store
February 24, 1992
(#92000027)
1701-1721 Dunlap Sq.
45°05′58″N 87°37′51″W / 45.099444°N 87.630833°W / 45.099444; -87.630833 (Lauerman Brothers Department Store)
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
August 14, 1979
(#79000094)
383 State St.
45°06′00″N 87°38′21″W / 45.1°N 87.639167°W / 45.1; -87.639167 (F.J. Lauerman House)
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
Milwaukee Road Depot
January 12, 2005
(#04001485)
650 Hattie St.
45°05′55″N 87°38′17″W / 45.098611°N 87.638056°W / 45.098611; -87.638056 (Milwaukee Road Depot)
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
Peshtigo Fire Cemetery
October 15, 1970
(#70000037)
Oconto Ave. between Peck and Ellis Aves.
45°03′23″N 87°45′15″W / 45.056389°N 87.754167°W / 45.056389; -87.754167 (Peshtigo Fire Cemetery)
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
May 2, 2007
(#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 / 44.958611; -87.58 (Peshtigo Reef Light)
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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