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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Price County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Price 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 13 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.


Current listings

Name on the Register Image Date listed Location City or town Description
1 Deadman Slough
Deadman Slough
August 20, 1993
(#93000750)
Address Restricted
Flambeau Late Paleo-Indian campsite and workshop near the Flambeau River. Artifacts include points of Hixton quartzite, adzes and scrapers. Animal remains include deer and porcupine bones, turtle shells, and probable waterfowl bones. Site also contains middle Woodland remains.
2 Fifield Fire Lookout Tower
Fifield Fire Lookout Tower
July 3, 2007
(#07000668)
5 mi (8.0 km). E of Fifield, WI 70
45°53′12″N 90°19′28″W / 45.886667°N 90.324444°W / 45.886667; -90.324444 (Fifield Fire Lookout Tower)
Fifield 100-foot galvanized steel fire tower built by the Wisconsin Conservation Commission in 1932, when wildfires scorched the cut-over. Lookouts from CCC Camp Riley Creek manned the tower from around 1935 to 1941 and then the Forest Service until 1957.
3 Fifield Town Hall
Fifield Town Hall
February 17, 1978
(#78000339)
Pine St. and Flambeau Ave.
45°52′38″N 90°25′16″W / 45.877222°N 90.421111°W / 45.877222; -90.421111 (Fifield Town Hall)
Fifield This town hall was built in 1894 on the site of the previous hall, which burned in the Fifield fire of 1893. It was the center of community life, with offices, jail, courtroom, meeting room, social hall, and a balcony for speeches and public announcements. Now a museum.
4 Flambeau Paper Company Office Building
Flambeau Paper Company Office Building
September 12, 1985
(#85002331)
200 N. First Ave.
45°56′11″N 90°26′50″W / 45.936389°N 90.447222°W / 45.936389; -90.447222 (Flambeau Paper Company Office Building)
Park Falls Neoclassical 2-story brick office building with 3-story clock tower, designed by Richard Philipp and built in 1925 and 1929. The building represents Park Falls' major industry for many years.
5 Albin Johnson Log House
Albin Johnson Log House
January 20, 1978
(#78000127)
N894 S. German Settlement Rd, Ogema
45°24′39″N 90°04′20″W / 45.410833°N 90.072222°W / 45.410833; -90.072222 (Albin Johnson Log House)
Spirit Typical Swedish-style log cabin built of pine, tamarack and hemlock in 1885 by immigrant Albin and his future uncle Amandus. Logs are cupped on top and bottom, with squared sides and dovetailed corner notches. Two rooms downstairs and a sleeping room up.
6 Matt Johnson Log House
Matt Johnson Log House
December 8, 1978
(#78000128)
S of Brantwood off U.S. 8
45°31′45″N 90°07′20″W / 45.529167°N 90.122222°W / 45.529167; -90.122222 (Matt Johnson Log House)
Brantwood Finnish-style log cabin with full dovetail joints, built in 1898 of hemlock, with two rooms downstairs and one up. Built by Finnish immigrants Matt Johnson and John Kivekoa, who worked at the Knox Brothers sawmill. A.k.a. Knox House.
7 Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
April 19, 2006
(#06000301)
Sokol Park, Ash and Fifield Sts.
45°41′44″N 90°24′27″W / 45.695556°N 90.4075°W / 45.695556; -90.4075 (Lidice Memorial)
Phillips This 1944 Modernist sculpture in a city with a large Czech-Slovak population commemorates the Nazis' 1942 destruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia.
8 Park Falls Post Office
Park Falls Post Office
October 24, 2000
(#00001238)
109 First St. N
45°56′09″N 90°26′53″W / 45.935833°N 90.448056°W / 45.935833; -90.448056 (Park Falls Post Office)
Park Falls 3-story Neoclassical red-brick-and-limestone office built by the PWA in 1936 to house the post office and the headquarters of the Chequamegon National Forest. The lobby contains a WPA mural by John Watrous entitled "Lumberjack Fight on the Flambeau River."
9 Phillips High School
Phillips High School
February 24, 1995
(#95000156)
300 Cherry St.
45°41′22″N 90°24′01″W / 45.689444°N 90.400278°W / 45.689444; -90.400278 (Phillips High School)
Phillips Romanesque and eclectic-styled brick school designed by Henry Wildhagen and built in 1909 and expanded by the PWA in 1937.
10 Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company
Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company
September 12, 1985
(#85002329)
700 Main St.
45°32′48″N 90°17′26″W / 45.546667°N 90.290556°W / 45.546667; -90.290556 (Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company)
Prentice Built in 1906 as a hide house for the U.S. Leather Company, the building housed the Prentice Cooperative Creamery Company from 1915 into the 1940s.
11 Round Lake Logging Dam
Round Lake Logging Dam
September 17, 1981
(#81000055)
NE of Fifield
45°55′33″N 90°04′45″W / 45.925833°N 90.079167°W / 45.925833; -90.079167 (Round Lake Logging Dam)
Fifield Log-sluicing and flushing dam built in 1878, carefully restored.
12 Wisconsin Concrete Park
Wisconsin Concrete Park
October 28, 2005
(#05001195)
WI 13 S.
45°40′15″N 90°23′19″W / 45.670833°N 90.388611°W / 45.670833; -90.388611 (Wisconsin Concrete Park)
Worcester A garden of rustic sculptures, created between 1950 and 1964 by Fred Smith - lumberjack, barkeep, and self-taught artist.

Formerly listed properties

Name on the Register Image Date listed Date removed Location City or town Summary
1 Bloom's Tavern, Store and House
March 7, 1985
(#85000490)
September 29, 2011
396 S. Avon Ave.
45°41′06″N 90°23′38″W / 45.685°N 90.3939°W / 45.685; -90.3939 (Bloom's Tavern, Store and House)
Phillips Two buildings connected by boomtown fronts, started in 1895. Burned in May 2009. At that point it was "the oldest known family-operated tavern in northern Wisconsin."
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