National Register of Historic Places listings in Brown County, Wisconsin facts for kids
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brown County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Brown 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 61 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another two properties were once listed but have been removed.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
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| 1 | Allouez Pump House |
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(#16000091) |
535 Greene Ave. 44°28′10″N 88°01′11″W / 44.469456°N 88.019635°W |
Allouez | The new water department had this building designed by McMahon and Clark Engineering Co. in Mediterranean Revival style and built in 1925. |
| 2 | Allouez Water Department and Town Hall |
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(#16000092) |
2143 S. Webster Ave. 44°28′54″N 88°01′25″W / 44.481633°N 88.023601°W |
Allouez | Water department offices, designed in Colonial Revival style by Foeller, Schober, Bernes, Safford and Jahn and built in 1947. |
| 3 | Astor Historic District |
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(#80000107) |
Roughly bordered by Mason Street (north), Webster Avenue (east), Grignon Street (south), and the Fox River (west) 44°30′12″N 88°01′05″W / 44.503333°N 88.018056°W |
Green Bay | Residential neighborhood with many Victorian and early 20th century houses associated with Green Bay leaders; Named for John Jacob Astor, who founded the town of Astor at this location in 1835 |
| 4 | John Baeten Store |
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(#14000483) |
620 George St. 44°26′56″N 88°03′26″W / 44.4488°N 88.0571°W |
De Pere | Brick store built in 1903, with cast-iron columns and pressed-metal ceiling and cornice, with commercial space on the first floor and apartments on second. The Baeten family owned the store into the 1970s. |
| 5 | Baird Law Office |
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(#70000025) |
Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Avenue 44°28′32″N 88°02′04″W / 44.475627°N 88.034484°W |
Green Bay | Greek Revival structure built by Samuel Wooten Beall; Housed law office of Henry Samuel Baird from 1841-1865; Now sited at Heritage Hill State Historical Park |
| 6 | Broadway-Dousman Historic District |
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(#99000330) |
300-400 blocks Dousman St., part of 300 block N. Chestnut St., part of 200-300 blocks N. Broadway 44°31′17″N 88°01′16″W / 44.521389°N 88.021111°W |
Green Bay | Commercial district of 12 structures built 1873-1947; Original businesses include retail, warehouses, hotels, and a wholesale and canning company |
| 7 | Broadway-Walnut Historic District |
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(#99000817) |
400 block W. Walnut St. 100 N. block Pearl St. 100 N. and part of 100 S. block Broadway 44°31′08″N 88°01′18″W / 44.518889°N 88.021667°W |
Green Bay | Commercial district of 20 structures built 1879-1947; Original businesses include dry-goods retail, warehouses, saloons, a news depot, bank, and a dance hall |
| 8 | Brown County Courthouse |
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(#76000053) |
100 S. Jefferson St. 44°30′46″N 88°00′52″W / 44.512778°N 88.014444°W |
Green Bay | Three-story Beaux-Arts courthouse with copper-clad dome, designed by Charles E. Bell and built 1908 to 1911. Contains historic murals inside and a sculpture out front of Perrot, Allouez and a Native American. |
| 9 | Chicago and North Western Railway Passenger Depot |
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(#99001633) |
202 Dousman St. 44°31′17″N 88°01′06″W / 44.521389°N 88.018333°W |
Green Bay | Built in 1898 in Italian Renaissance Revival style, with 5-story clock tower. Today houses Titletown Brewing Company. |
| 10 | Christ Episcopal Church Complex |
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(#12000852) |
425 Cherry St. 44°30′50″N 88°00′42″W / 44.513893°N 88.011549°W |
Green Bay | Gothic Revival church with cruciform floor-plan, built in 1899. |
| 11 | Cotton House |
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(#70000026) |
Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 South Webster Ave. 44°28′25″N 88°01′49″W / 44.473730°N 88.030345°W |
Green Bay | Greek Revival home built in 1840s by John & Mary Cotton, originally at Beaupre and Webster Sts. |
| 12 | De Pere Lock and Dam Historic District |
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(#93001331) |
Fox R. at James St. 44°26′58″N 88°03′47″W / 44.449444°N 88.063056°W |
De Pere | The last of 24 locks on the Fox between Portage and De Pere, operated since the 1850s. Includes a Dutch Colonial Revival lock-keeper's house. One of two hand-operated locks left in the U.S. |
| 13 | De Pere Public Library |
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(#02001106) |
380 Main Ave. 44°26′59″N 88°04′13″W / 44.449722°N 88.070278°W |
De Pere | Library built in 1937 during the Great Depression with support of the PWA. The design is Cotswold style with some Classical Revival elements. |
| 14 | Joel S. Fisk House |
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(#78000420) |
123 N. Oakland Ave. 44°31′08″N 88°01′36″W / 44.518889°N 88.026667°W |
Green Bay | Italianate house with a cupola, built from 1862 to 1867. Fisk was a lawyer, postmaster, and Register of the local land office, ran a fishing operation, and platted the city of Fort Howard. |
| 15 | Fort Howard Hospital |
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(#71001075) |
Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Ave. 44°28′27″N 88°02′04″W / 44.474241°N 88.034359°W |
Green Bay | Federal-style building constructed 1834 to 1835 at old Fort Howard. |
| 16 | Fort Howard Officers' Quarters |
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(#72001548) |
Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Ave. 44°28′27″N 88°02′01″W / 44.474252°N 88.033696°W |
Green Bay | 1830 Federal-style building, in which Fort Howard's officers lived with their families. This building is currently interpreted at the park as the Company Kitchen/Orderly Room. The structure at the park named Fort Howard Officers' Quarters is a reproduction built in 1982. |
| 17 | Fort Howard Ward Building |
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(#72001547) |
Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Ave. 44°28′27″N 88°02′03″W / 44.474170°N 88.034197°W |
Green Bay | Fort Howard's army hospital built in 1816, originally at location of 402 N. Chestnut Ave. |
| 18 | Fox Theatre |
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(#00000256) |
117 S. Washington St. 44°30′49″N 88°00′59″W / 44.513611°N 88.016389°W |
Green Bay | Atmospheric theatre built in 1929, with Art Deco exterior and Spanish Colonial Revival interiors. |
| 19 | Grassy Island Range Lights |
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(#04001484) |
100 Bay Beach Rd. 44°32′11″N 88°00′18″W / 44.536389°N 88.005°W |
Green Bay | Range lights built in 1872 to guide ships through the channel through Grassy Island and into Green Bay's harbor. |
| 20 | Green Bay YMCA |
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(#16000022) |
235 N. Jefferson St. 44°30′55″N 88°00′45″W / 44.515150°N 88.012380°W |
Green Bay | Large stone-clad YMCA building designed by Foeller, Schober & Stephenson/Berners-Schober. The original 1924 building is in Tudor Revival style and the 1968 addition in a more Contemporary style. |
| 21 | Otto and Hilda Gretzinger House |
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(#11000747) |
922 N. Broadway 44°27′28″N 88°03′22″W / 44.457778°N 88.056111°W |
De Pere | Bungalow/Craftsman-style house built in 1915. Otto managed the Central Lumber Company and Hilda was a teacher. |
| 22 | Edwin and Jennie Gutknecht House |
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(#14001229) |
603 S. Michigan St. 44°26′40″N 88°03′29″W / 44.444340°N 88.058009°W |
De Pere | Stucco-clad American Foursquare house designed by William Reynolds of Green Bay and built in 1913. |
| 23 | Hazelwood |
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(#70000027) |
1008 S. Monroe Ave. 44°30′03″N 88°01′08″W / 44.500833°N 88.018889°W |
Green Bay | Morgan Martin built this Greek Revival home in 1837 for his bride Elizabeth. Morgan was an attorney, civic leader, Indian agent, and president of the convention that drafted Wisconsin's constitution. |
| 24 | Henry House |
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(#80000108) |
1749 Riverside Dr. 44°37′52″N 88°03′11″W / 44.631111°N 88.053056°W |
Suamico | Simple side-gabled boarding house built by the Weed Brothers around 1869, during the lumber era. A.k.a. Weed Mill Inn. Now the Shoppes at Vickery Village. |
| 25 | Henry and Mary Heyrman House |
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(#14001230) |
403 S. Michigan St. 44°26′43″N 88°03′28″W / 44.445146°N 88.057905°W |
De Pere | Queen Anne house built in 1903. |
| 26 | Holy Cross Church and Convent |
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(#01000685) |
3001 Bay Settlement Rd. 44°33′20″N 87°53′27″W / 44.555556°N 87.890833°W |
Green Bay | Roman Catholic church built in 1932 in Romanesque style. |
| 27 | Hotel Northland |
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(#13000860) |
304 N. Adams St. 44°30′57″N 88°00′46″W / 44.515825°N 88.012785°W |
Green Bay | Designed in Tudor Revival style by Herbert Tullgren and built in 1924, at the time the largest hotel in Wisconsin. Hosted Lombardi's first press conference and some of the Packers' opposing teams. |
| 28 | Kellogg Public Library and Neville Public Museum |
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(#81000035) |
125 S. Jefferson St. 44°30′44″N 88°00′49″W / 44.512222°N 88.013611°W |
Green Bay | The Classical Revival library was built in 1903 and the matching museum was added in 1926. Kellog was a banker and Neville was mayor of Green Bay. This was the first Carnegie library in Wisconsin. |
| 29 | Julius Krause Store Building |
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(#14000502) |
106 S. Broadway 44°26′55″N 88°03′38″W / 44.4486°N 88.0606°W |
De Pere | Brick shoe store built in 1882 in Commercial Vernacular style. |
| 30 | C. A. Lawton Company |
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(#91001985) |
233 N. Broadway 44°27′02″N 88°03′39″W / 44.450556°N 88.060833°W |
De Pere | General machine shop built in 1879. Charles Lawton invented a bran dresser, which separated bran from flour. Functioned until 1971. Now redeveloped as apartments. |
| 31 | Little Kaukauna Lock and Dam Historic District |
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(#93001332) |
Fox R. at Mill Rd. 44°22′42″N 88°07′23″W / 44.378333°N 88.123056°W |
De Pere | Next-to-the-last lock in the Lower Fox River lock system, operated continuously since the 1850s. Includes a Dutch Colonial Revival lock-keeper's house. |
| 32 | Main Avenue Historic District |
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(#09001314) |
301-377 (odd only) Main Ave. 44°26′51″N 88°04′10″W / 44.447461°N 88.069469°W |
De Pere | 18 commercial buildings built from 1883 to 1950 in various styles: Commercial Vernacular, Queen Anne, 20th Century Commercial, and Neoclassical Revival. |
| 33 | Main Hall |
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(#88002001) |
Third St. and College Ave. 44°26′39″N 88°03′59″W / 44.444167°N 88.066389°W |
De Pere | On completion in 1903, Main Hall was St. Norbert College, containing classrooms, dormitory and commons. The style is Richardsonian Romanesque, and today it is the architectural center of the campus. |
| 34 | Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot |
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(#96000906) |
400 S. Washington St. 44°30′38″N 88°01′08″W / 44.510556°N 88.018889°W |
Green Bay | Designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Flemish Renaissance Revival style and built in 1898 for the Milwaukee Road, the depot served the east side of Green Bay until 1957. |
| 35 | Mueller-Wright House |
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(#78000078) |
Washington and Mueller Sts. 44°19′35″N 88°09′43″W / 44.326389°N 88.161944°W |
Wrightstown | Greek Revival-styled home built in the 1840s. Hoel and Orilla Wright founded the settlement in 1833, running a trading post, a ferry and an inn. Carl Mueller later ran a general store, a sawmill and a brewery. |
| 36 | John T. and Margaret Nichols House |
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(#05000954) |
128 Taft Ave. 44°28′00″N 88°02′06″W / 44.466776°N 88.035076°W |
Allouez | Modernist-styled house built in 1951. |
| 37 | Nicolet High School |
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(#15000703) |
111 3rd St. 44°26′48″N 88°04′05″W / 44.4466°N 88.068°W |
De Pere | School building designed in Neoclassical style by Foeller, Schober, and Stephenson of Green Bay and built in 1923. Served as a public high school until 1958, when it was bought by Abbott Pennings High School, which used it as a Catholic school until 1990, when it was bought by St. Norbert College, which uses it as classrooms and administrative office space. |
| 38 | North Broadway Street Historic District |
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(#83003368) |
Broadway, Ridgeway Blvd., Morris, Fulton, Franklin, Cass, Front, and Wisconsin Sts. 44°27′14″N 88°03′37″W / 44.453889°N 88.060278°W |
De Pere | Homes built in a wide variety of styles, with contributing structures built between 1836 and 1923. |
| 39 | North Michigan Street-North Superior Street Historic District |
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(#07000707) |
Roughly bounded by Ridgeview Blvd., North Wisconsin, North Huron & George Sts. 44°27′08″N 88°03′25″W / 44.45235°N 88.056919°W |
De Pere | One of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Wisconsin, with houses built as early as 1867 in Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, American Foursquare and Bungalow styles. |
| 40 | Oakland-Dousman Historic District |
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(#88000455) |
Roughly bounded by Dousman St., Oakland Ave., Shawano Ave., Antoinette and Francis Sts. 44°31′12″N 88°01′30″W / 44.52°N 88.025°W |
Green Bay | Residential district with homes built as early as 1888 in a variety of styles. |
| 41 | Randall Avenue Historic District |
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(#07000370) |
Generally bounded by Ridgeway Blvd., Oakdale Ave., and Glenwood Ave. 44°27′23″N 88°03′15″W / 44.456308°N 88.054281°W |
De Pere | Residential neighborhood largely built during the Great Depression, including Colonial Revival and other styles. |
| 42 | Angeline Champeau Rioux House |
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(#94001251) |
2183 Glendale Ave. 44°33′42″N 88°04′07″W / 44.561667°N 88.068611°W |
Howard | Lucas Rioux built the house in 1828. It later quartered Fort Howard soldiers and may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. |
| 43 | Rockwood Lodge Barn and Pigsty |
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(#04000412) |
5632 Sturgeon Bay Rd. 44°37′57″N 87°48′11″W / 44.6325°N 87.803056°W |
Green Bay | Large wooden barn and brick sty, built 1938. A.k.a. Kenneth Rabas farm. |
| 44 | J.B. Smith House and Granary |
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(#04000446) |
5121 Gravel Pit Rd. 44°37′48″N 87°48′16″W / 44.63°N 87.804444°W |
Green Bay | Gabled ell house and granary built 1885. A.k.a. Kenneth Rabas house. |
| 45 | South Broadway Historic District |
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(#09001272) |
101-129 (odd only) S. Broadway 44°26′54″N 88°03′36″W / 44.4484°N 88.060094°W |
De Pere | After the 1882 fire destroyed entire blocks of wooden businesses east of the river, they rebuilt with brick, almost blending the buildings' facades because they used similar cream-colored brick. |
| 46 | Steckart and Falck Double Block |
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(#11000758) |
112-118 N. Broadway 44°26′58″N 88°03′38″W / 44.449444°N 88.060556°W |
De Pere | Large commercial building built in 1888 in an ornate Italianate style. Street level housed a meat market, saloon and liquor store, and the second floor apartments. |
| 47 | Tank Cottage |
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(#70000028) |
Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 South Webster Avenue 44°28′32″N 88°02′09″W / 44.475549°N 88.035916°W |
Green Bay | In 1803, the first part of the cottage was constructed in the piece sur piece style as a fur trader's cabin. Otto Tank bought it in 1850 and added the wings. Later moved to Heritage Hill. |
| 48 | Union House Hotel |
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(#03001216) |
200 North Broadway 44°27′01″N 88°03′37″W / 44.450272°N 88.060167°W |
De Pere | Late Victorian hotel begun in 1883, after a fire destroyed three earlier hotels. Now the oldest continually-operated hotel in the area. |
| 49 | Wisconsin State Reformatory |
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(#90000641) |
SE corner of Riverside Dr. and WI 172 44°28′14″N 88°02′12″W / 44.470556°N 88.036667°W |
Allouez | Chartered by the state legislature in 1897 as a reformatory for young male offenders. North Cell Hall was started in 1898, South in 1915. In 1972 it became a maximum security prison for adult males. |
| 50 | Zippin Pippin |
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(#07001166) |
Bay Beach Amusement Park 44°31′51″N 87°58′51″W / 44.530917°N 87.980833°W |
Green Bay | One of the oldest wooden roller coasters in the United States, originally built in 1912 at East End Park in Memphis; Dismantled and moved to Green Bay in 2010 |
Formerly listed
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Moravian Church |
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(#72001588) |
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518 Moravian St., Green Bay, moved to Heritage Hill State Park 44°28′29″N 88°01′56″W / 44.474732°N 88.032199°W |
De Pere | In 1851-52, a Moravian congregation built their church in Greek Revival style on Moravian Street in downtown Green Bay. Later moved to Heritage Hill. |
| 2 | Kaap's Restaurant |
(#80004595) |
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212 - 214 N. Washington St 44°28′29″N 88°01′56″W / 44.474732°N 88.032199°W |
Green Bay | Candy shop, bakery, tea room and restaurant which began operating on Washington Street in 1914. Now razed. |
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