National Register of Historic Places listings in Waupaca County, Wisconsin facts for kids

Location of Waupaca County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Waupaca 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 25 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	Browne Law Office		August 18, 1980 (#80000208)	202 E. Union St. 44°21′27″N 89°05′00″W / 44.3575°N 89.083333°W / 44.3575; -89.083333 (Browne Law Office)	Waupaca	Simple Greek Revival office built in 1854 by pioneer lawyer E. L. Browne, and later used by his son E. E. Browne, a U.S. congressman. Believed to be the longest continuously-operating law office in Wisconsin.
2	Clintonville Post Office		October 24, 2000 (#00001253)	2 N. Main St. 44°37′24″N 88°45′34″W / 44.623333°N 88.759444°W / 44.623333; -88.759444 (Clintonville Post Office)	Clintonville	Art Moderne-styled building constructed in 1935 by the Public Works Administration.
3	Commandant's Residence Home		June 19, 1985 (#85001364)	Off WI 22 44°20′17″N 89°08′43″W / 44.338056°N 89.145278°W / 44.338056; -89.145278 (Commandant's Residence Home)	King	Large Queen Anne-styled home designed by William Waters and built in 1888 by the GAR to house retired soldiers. Now houses King's commandant.
4	Crescent Roller Mills		December 20, 1978 (#78000150)	213 Oborn St. 44°21′22″N 89°04′28″W / 44.356111°N 89.074444°W / 44.356111; -89.074444 (Crescent Roller Mills)	Waupaca	3-story wooden flour mill built in 1884. Was the last mill in the state to operate on water-power, grinding specialty flour into the 1960s.
5	Danes Hall		January 17, 1980 (#80000209)	303 N. Main St. 44°21′36″N 89°05′04″W / 44.36°N 89.084444°W / 44.36; -89.084444 (Danes Hall)	Waupaca	3-story Queen Anne/Romanesque meeting hall of Waupaca's Danish Brotherhood in America lodge, designed by William Waters and built in 1894.
6	Henry and Elizabeth Delong House		October 4, 2002 (#02001105)	509 W. Fulton St. 44°21′35″N 89°05′36″W / 44.359722°N 89.093333°W / 44.359722; -89.093333 (Henry and Elizabeth Delong House)	Waupaca	American Foursquare house with Classical Revival styling, built by Conrad Gmeiner for his wife's parents. Gmeiner ran a local brickyard and used a variety of materials and designs to showcase what he could build.
7	Halfway House		March 1, 1982 (#82000728)	Potts Ave. 44°18′44″N 89°09′22″W / 44.312222°N 89.156111°W / 44.312222; -89.156111 (Halfway House)	King	Stagecoach stop built in 1852. A.k.a. Jones' Tavern.
8	Jens Hansen Wagon and Carriage Shop		June 17, 1994 (#94000601)	117 E. Fulton St. 44°21′30″N 89°05′02″W / 44.358333°N 89.083889°W / 44.358333; -89.083889 (Jens Hansen Wagon and Carriage Shop)	Waupaca	2-story brick shop with Italianate details, built in 1868 and added on to around 1894.
9	Matt and Lena Jensen House		October 4, 2002 (#02001108)	501 W. Fulton St. 44°21′34″N 89°05′35″W / 44.359444°N 89.093056°W / 44.359444; -89.093056 (Matt and Lena Jensen House)	Waupaca	Grand 3-story Queen Anne house built by Hans Knudsen for the Jensens in 1894. Matt was a butcher and cattle-buyer who had immigrated from Denmark in 1872.
10	Philip H. Kasper Cheese Factory		August 27, 1976 (#76000081)	W of Bear Creek on WI 22 44°31′04″N 88°53′25″W / 44.517778°N 88.890278°W / 44.517778; -88.890278 (Philip H. Kasper Cheese Factory)	Bear Creek	Ramshackle 1-story wooden cheese factory built in 1891. A leader in the dairy industry, Kasper attended the UW dairy school in 1894, switched early to pay for milk based on butterfat rather than volume, helped organize the Wisconsin Cheesemakers' Association, and supposedly won more prizes than any other cheesemaker.
11	Lake Street Historic District		May 30, 2002 (#02000599)	Roughly bounded S. Washington St., E. Badger St., Fifth St., and Tioga St. 44°21′18″N 89°04′57″W / 44.355°N 89.0825°W / 44.355; -89.0825 (Lake Street Historic District)	Waupaca	Mostly-residential district with 71 contributing properties, ranging from Cutting Marsh's 1865 Greek Revival Presbyterian Church to the 1867 Italianate Lea house, the 1890 Queen Anne Scott house, the 1915 American Foursquare/Prairie Style Beardmore house, the 1915 Tudor Revival Peter Hansen house, the 1921 Christofferson Hospital, the 1921 Spanish Colonial Mortenson house, and the 1926 Colonial Revival Godfrey house,
12	Main Street Historic District		April 12, 2002 (#02000370)	Roughly along S. and N. Main Sts. from W. Union to Granite Sts. 44°21′35″N 89°05′13″W / 44.359722°N 89.086944°W / 44.359722; -89.086944 (Main Street Historic District)	Waupaca	Commercial district with 43 contributing properties including the 1868 Hansen Wagon Shop mentioned above, the 1877 Italianate-styled Masonic Meeting Hall the 1881 Jensen Meat Market, the 1883 Pinkerton Block which housed Nordvi's General Store the 1893 Queen Anne-styled Waupaca County National Bank, the 1896 Peterson Saloon, and the 1919 Godfrey Auto Company.
13	Mead Bank		May 30, 2003 (#03000506)	215 Jefferson St. 44°21′30″N 89°05′00″W / 44.358333°N 89.083333°W / 44.358333; -89.083333 (Mead Bank)	Waupaca	Small, early bank built around 1862 in Greek Revival style for Henry C. Mead, who was mysteriously murdered there in 1882.
14	Mumbrue-Penney House		October 4, 2002 (#02001107)	404 S. Main St. 44°21′24″N 89°05′07″W / 44.356667°N 89.085278°W / 44.356667; -89.085278 (Mumbrue-Penney House)	Waupaca	3-story Second Empire house, built in 1873 for Henry Cook Mumbrue, a Waupaca storekeeper, politician, and postmaster. In 1890 Adelbert Penney bought the house. He was called the "potato king" because he owned potato farms and warehouses and helped make Waupaca a potato trading center.
15	Old Hospital		June 19, 1985 (#85001365)	Off WI 22 44°20′08″N 89°08′49″W / 44.335556°N 89.146944°W / 44.335556; -89.146944 (Old Hospital)	King	2.5-story brick building built in 1929, in Mediterranean Revival style, with orange brick and red roof.
16	Peter and Jessie Olfson House		October 4, 2002 (#02001082)	415 Granite St. 44°21′43″N 89°05′28″W / 44.361944°N 89.091111°W / 44.361944; -89.091111 (Peter and Jessie Olfson House)	Waupaca	Peter was a Waupaca local who made is fortune trading potatoes starting in 1892. In 1899 he and Jessie built this elaborate Queen Anne home, with stained glass windows and a cast-iron fireplace.
17	Rural on the Crystal Historic District		April 12, 1989 (#89000231)	Roughly bounded by Arbor St., Rapley St., Rural Rd., and Cleghorn St. 44°18′46″N 89°09′27″W / 44.312778°N 89.1575°W / 44.312778; -89.1575 (Rural on the Crystal Historic District)	Rural	Community along the Crystal River founded by New-Englanders in the 1850s on the road from Berlin to Stevens Point. Today it remains much as it was when the railroad bypassed it in 1870.
18	Sanders Site (47WP26 and 47WP70)		February 9, 1984 (#84003819)	Address Restricted	Fremont	Site along the Wolf River where Woodland people lived and built effigy mounds from around 600 to 1100 CE. Animal remains at the site indicate that they ate more elk than any other meat, followed by bear and deer.
19	Shearer-Cristy House		December 22, 1983 (#83004364)	315 E. Lake St. 44°21′10″N 89°04′53″W / 44.352778°N 89.081389°W / 44.352778; -89.081389 (Shearer-Cristy House)	Waupaca	Exuberant Queen Anne home built in 1891 from a pattern-book design by George Otis Garnsey. Caleb Shearer, the first owner, ran a local planing mill. Joseph Cristy, who bought the house in 1907, owned a dry goods store.
20	Veterans Cottages Historic District		June 19, 1985 (#85001367)	Off WI 22 44°20′20″N 89°08′39″W / 44.338889°N 89.144167°W / 44.338889; -89.144167 (Veterans Cottages Historic District)	King	The Wisconsin Veteran's Home was founded in 1887 by the GAR to house veterans of the Civil War. It was unusual in that it allowed wives to live with the veterans and provided them individual cottages. In 1929 the state took over the home, and to this day it houses veterans of subsequent wars.
21	Veterans Home Chapel		June 19, 1985 (#85001366)	WI 22 and Grandview 44°20′14″N 89°08′35″W / 44.337222°N 89.143056°W / 44.337222; -89.143056 (Veterans Home Chapel)	King	Wooden church at King Veteran's Home, built in 1890 in Queen Anne style.
22	Waupaca Free Public Library		June 28, 1996 (#96000732)	321 S. Main St. 44°21′19″N 89°05′05″W / 44.355278°N 89.084722°W / 44.355278; -89.084722 (Waupaca Free Public Library)	Waupaca	1914 Carnegie Library supported by Waupaca women's organizations, designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff in Tudor Revival style with Arts and Crafts influences.
23	Waupaca Post Office		October 24, 2000 (#00001252)	306 S. Main St. 44°21′18″N 89°05′07″W / 44.355°N 89.085278°W / 44.355; -89.085278 (Waupaca Post Office)	Waupaca	Neoclassical building built in 1938 with WPA assistance, the first federal post office in Waupaca.
24	J. & C. Wipf Mills		December 8, 1987 (#87002108)	280 N. Main St. 44°30′35″N 89°07′50″W / 44.509722°N 89.130556°W / 44.509722; -89.130556 (J. & C. Wipf Mills)	Iola	3-story water-powered mill complex begun around 1860 by Swiss immigrant Henry Wipf and his sons Jacob and Conrad. The Wipfs added planing and moulding operations to the original gristmill over the century that they operated the mill.