National Register of Historic Places listings in Brown County, Wisconsin

Location of Brown County in Wisconsin

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 47 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another two properties were once listed but have been removed.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted May 27, 2016.

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	Astor Historic District	Upload image	February 27, 1980 (#80000107)	Roughly bordered by Mason Street (north), Webster Avenue (east), Grignon Street (south), and the Fox River (west)	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
2	John Baeten Store	Upload image	August 8, 2014 (#14000483)	620 George St.	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.
3	Baird Law Office		October 15, 1970 (#70000025)	Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Avenue	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
4	Broadway-Dousman Historic District	Upload image	March 12, 1999 (#99000330)	300-400 blocks Dousman St., part of 300 block N. Chestnut St., part of 200-300 blocks N. Broadway	Green Bay	Commercial district of 12 structures built 1873-1947; Original businesses include retail, warehouses, hotels, and a wholesale and canning company
5	Broadway-Walnut Historic District	Upload image	July 8, 1999 (#99000817)	400 block W. Walnut St. 100 N. block Pearl St. 100 N. and part of 100 S. block Broadway	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
6	Brown County Courthouse	Brown County Courthouse	January 1, 1976 (#76000053)	100 S. Jefferson St.	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.
7	Chicago and North Western Railway Passenger Depot	Chicago and North Western Railway Passenger Depot	December 30, 1999 (#99001633)	202 Dousman St.	Green Bay	Built in 1898 in Italian Renaissance Revival style, with 5-story clock tower. Today houses Titletown Brewing Company.
8	Christ Episcopal Church Complex	Christ Episcopal Church Complex	October 9, 2012 (#12000852)	425 Cherry St.	Green Bay	Gothic Revival church with cruciform floor-plan, built in 1899.
9	Cotton House	Cotton House	April 28, 1970 (#70000026)	Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 South Webster Ave.	Green Bay	Greek Revival home built in 1840s by John & Mary Cotton, originally at Beaupre and Webster Sts.
10	De Pere Lock and Dam Historic District		December 7, 1993 (#93001331)	Fox R. at James St.	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.
11	De Pere Public Library	De Pere Public Library	October 4, 2002 (#02001106)	380 Main Ave.	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.
12	Joel S. Fisk House	Joel S. Fisk House	August 11, 1978 (#78000420)	123 N. Oakland Ave.	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.
13	Fort Howard Hospital	Fort Howard Hospital	July 22, 1979 (#71001075)	Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Ave.	Green Bay	Federal-style building constructed 1834 to 1835 at old Fort Howard.
14	Fort Howard Officers' Quarters	Fort Howard Officers' Quarters	July 22, 1979 (#72001548)	Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Ave.	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.
15	Fort Howard Ward Building	Fort Howard Ward Building	July 22, 1979 (#72001547)	Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 S. Webster Ave.	Green Bay	Fort Howard's army hospital built in 1816, originally at location of 402 N. Chestnut Ave.
16	Fox Theatre	Fox Theatre	March 24, 2000 (#00000256)	117 S. Washington St.	Green Bay	Atmospheric theatre built in 1929, with Art Deco exterior and Spanish Colonial Revival interiors.
17	Grassy Island Range Lights	Grassy Island Range Lights	January 12, 2005 (#04001484)	100 Bay Beach Rd.	Green Bay	Range lights built in 1872 to guide ships through the channel through Grassy Island and into Green Bay's harbor.
18	Otto and Hilda Gretzinger House	Upload image	October 13, 2011 (#11000747)	922 N. Broadway	De Pere	Bungalow/Craftsman-style house built in 1915. Otto managed the Central Lumber Company and Hilda was a teacher.
19	Edwin and Jennie Gutknecht House	Edwin and Jennie Gutknecht House	January 27, 2015 (#14001229)	603 S. Michigan St.	De Pere	Stucco-clad American Foursquare house designed by William Reynolds of Green Bay and built in 1913.
20	Hazelwood		April 28, 1970 (#70000027)	1008 S. Monroe Ave.	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.
21	Henry House	Upload image	January 31, 1980 (#80000108)	1749 Riverside Dr.	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.
22	Henry and Mary Heyrman House	Henry and Mary Heyrman House	January 27, 2015 (#14001230)	403 S. Michigan St.	De Pere	Queen Anne house built in 1903.
23	Holy Cross Church and Convent	Holy Cross Church and Convent	June 28, 2001 (#01000685)	3001 Bay Settlement Rd.	Green Bay	Roman Catholic church built in 1932 in Romanesque style.
24	Hotel Northland	Hotel Northland	October 30, 2013 (#13000860)	304 N. Adams St.	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.
25	Kellogg Public Library and Neville Public Museum	Kellogg Public Library and Neville Public Museum	June 9, 1981 (#81000035)	125 S. Jefferson St.	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.
26	Julius Krause Store Building	Upload image	August 18, 2014 (#14000502)	106 S. Broadway	De Pere	Brick shoe store built in 1882 in Commercial Vernacular style.
27	C. A. Lawton Company	C. A. Lawton Company	January 30, 1992 (#91001985)	233 N. Broadway	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.
28	Little Kaukauna Lock and Dam Historic District	Upload image	December 7, 1993 (#93001332)	Fox R. at Mill Rd.	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.
29	Main Avenue Historic District	Upload image	February 3, 2010 (#09001314)	301-377 (odd only) Main Ave.	De Pere	18 commercial buildings built from 1883 to 1950 in various styles: Commercial Vernacular, Queen Anne, 20th Century Commercial, and Neoclassical Revival.
30	Main Hall	Main Hall	October 28, 1988 (#88002001)	Third St. and College Ave.	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.
31	Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot	Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot	August 16, 1996 (#96000906)	400 S. Washington St.	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.
32	Mueller-Wright House	Mueller-Wright House	March 29, 1978 (#78000078)	Washington and Mueller Sts.	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.
33	John T. and Margaret Nichols House	Upload image	September 1, 2005 (#05000954)	128 Taft Ave.	Allouez	Modernist-styled house built in 1951.
34	Nicolet High School	Upload image	October 5, 2015 (#15000703)	111 3rd St.	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.
35	North Broadway Street Historic District		September 8, 1983 (#83003368)	Broadway, Ridgeway Blvd., Morris, Fulton, Franklin, Cass, Front, and Wisconsin Sts.	De Pere	Homes built in a wide variety of styles, with contributing structures built between 1836 and 1923.
36	North Michigan Street-North Superior Street Historic District	Upload image	July 19, 2007 (#07000707)	Roughly bounded by Ridgeview Blvd., North Wisconsin, North Huron & George Sts.	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.
37	Oakland-Dousman Historic District	Upload image	April 27, 1988 (#88000455)	Roughly bounded by Dousman St., Oakland Ave., Shawano Ave., Antoinette and Francis Sts.	Green Bay	Residential district with homes built as early as 1888 in a variety of styles.
38	Randall Avenue Historic District	Upload image	April 24, 2007 (#07000370)	Generally bounded by Ridgeway Blvd., Oakdale Ave., and Glenwood Ave.	De Pere	Residential neighborhood largely built during the Great Depression, including Colonial Revival and other styles.
39	Angeline Champeau Rioux House	Upload image	October 28, 1994 (#94001251)	2183 Glendale Ave.	Howard	Lucas Rioux built the house in 1828. It later quartered Fort Howard soldiers and may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
40	Rockwood Lodge Barn and Pigsty	Upload image	May 5, 2004 (#04000412)	5632 Sturgeon Bay Rd.	Green Bay	Large wooden barn and brick sty, built 1938. A.k.a. Kenneth Rabas farm.
41	J.B. Smith House and Granary	Upload image	May 12, 2004 (#04000446)	5121 Gravel Pit Rd.	Green Bay	Gabled ell house and granary built 1885. A.k.a. Kenneth Rabas house.
42	South Broadway Historic District	South Broadway Historic District	January 21, 2010 (#09001272)	101-129 (odd only) S. Broadway	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.
43	Steckart and Falck Double Block	Upload image	October 20, 2011 (#11000758)	112-118 N. Broadway	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.
44	Tank Cottage	Tank Cottage	April 28, 1970 (#70000028)	Heritage Hill State Park, 2640 South Webster Avenue	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.
45	Union House Hotel	Union House Hotel	November 26, 2003 (#03001216)	200 North Broadway	De Pere	Late Victorian hotel begun in 1883, after a fire destroyed three earlier hotels. Now the oldest continually-operated hotel in the area.
46	Wisconsin State Reformatory	Wisconsin State Reformatory	May 3, 1990 (#90000641)	SE corner of Riverside Dr. and WI 172	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.
47	Zippin Pippin	Zippin Pippin	November 8, 2007 (#07001166)	Bay Beach Amusement Park	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	East Moravian Church	February 1, 1972 (#72001588)	Unknown	518 Moravian St., Green Bay, moved to Heritage Hill State Park	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	Upload image	June 2, 1980 (#80004595)	March 29, 1984	212 - 214 N. Washington St	Green Bay	Candy shop, bakery, tea room and restaurant which began operating on Washington Street in 1914. Now razed.

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin