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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sauk County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Sauk County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen on a map.
There are 62 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Three of these are further designated as National Historic Landmarks.
Livery stable, built in 1911 near the hotels and the depot, where a traveler could rent a horse and buggy or board a horse. Only a few livery buildings are left in the state.
Derleth built this home from local limestone near his beloved Wisconsin River about 1939 to house his books and his writing career. He called his home Place of Hawks.
The lake between two stone bluffs was sacred to Native Americans, who built effigy mounds on its shores. The state park was founded in 1911. The CCCs built most of the rustic structures in the 1930s. Now Wisconsin's largest and most popular state park.
Concentration of 75 commercial and civic buildings including the 1872 Italianate Draper Brothers Meat Market, the 1873 Moeller Wagon Shop, the 1885 Ewing Livery, the 1888 Miller Saloon, the 1896 Civil War Memorial, the 1896 Romanesque Revival First Methodist Episcopal Church, the 1900 Romanesque Wellington Hotel, the 1907 Baraboo Steam Laundry, the 1922 Colonial Revival Trimpey Building, the 1928 Prairie Style Baraboo High School, and the 1938 Art Moderne Juliar Theatre.
Small iron mine opened in 1910 by C.T. Roberts and closed the next year when it abruptly flooded, leaving shafts, tools, tracks and ore carts submerged and undisturbed since 1911. Foundations of the engine house, compressor, boiler house, and rail spur remain above ground.
1884 meeting hall designed by Alfred Clas. The Freethinkers' congregation was formed by German immigrants in 1852, and meets to this day, the last such congregation in North America.
Red brick house built between 1850 and 1857. Hahn, an immigrant harness-maker bought the house in 1866 and built a workshop next to it. After his wife Lisette died in 1871, he raised the children in the house.
Rural area settled chiefly by immigrants from Graubünden canton, Switzerland starting in 1842. Some characteristic stone and timber-framed buildings remain.
Only remaining building from textile mill complex, designed by Claude & Starck in Prairie School style and built 1917-18. In the 1920s, Island Woolen was the biggest employer in Sauk County.
Commercial buildings in various styles, ranging from the 1873 Italianate Kelsey Block to the 1888 Romanesque Revival Free Press Block, to the large 1896 Queen Anne Hotel Stolte, to the 1920 Neoclassical Reedsburg Bank.
Camelback through truss bridge across the Baraboo River, built in 1884 by Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works. Moved to a park around 1987. Now the last remaining bridge of this type in the state.
1.5-story Arts and Crafts/Craftsmanstucco-clad house with banks of casement windows and wide eaves, designed by Morton Pereira and built in 1921. The Marcuses owned department stores, including Nina's in Spring Green.
Small Georgian Revival municipal building built in 1928 with a bequest from Roujet D. Marshall, a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice from the area. The building houses a library, offices and a meeting room.
Neogothic Revival-styled funeral chapel in Greenwood Cemetery, designed by Leigh Hunt and built in 1940. Then used to store bodies when the ground was too frozen for digging.
A brewery started at this site in 1870, using locally-grown hops. It burned in 1903, was rebuilt in 1905 with 8,000 barrel capacity, and ran until 1950, except during Prohibition. Now apartments.
The mill converted local wool into products from army blankets to commercial goods for Montgomery Ward and Sears. With 200 employees, it was Reedsburg's largest employer for much of its 80 years, from around 1881 to 1967.
Winter quarters for the Ringling Brothers Circus from 1884 to 1919, including the Ring Barn for horses and the Elephant House. Now part of Circus World Museum.
Church of block and stack masonry built in 1875. The congregation formed at the site in 1844 was the focus of the Swiss community. A.k.a. Ragatz Church.
Firehouse built in 1889, with hose-drying tower added in 1894. Also served as village hall. The volunteer fire department had organized in 1854, the first in the state.
Stolte Sr. built the house in the 1880s, mixing the styles of Victorian Gothic and Queen Anne. A smokehouse and hitching post are in the back yard. Stolte built the hotel at 204 Main.
J. S. Tripp, a local banker, lawyer and public servant, donated funds to build a library and village hall. William Dresen and Alfred C. Clas designed it in Neoclassical style and it opened in 1913.
Tudor Revival house designed by Ferry & Clas and built in 1903. Van Orden had worked his way up from "general utility boy" to president of the First National Bank of Baraboo. Now houses the Sauk County Historical Museum.
The latitude and longitude information provided is primarily from the National Register Information System, and has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. For 1%, the location info may be way off. We seek to correct the coordinate information wherever it is found to be erroneous. Please leave a note in the Discussion page for this article if you believe any specific location is incorrect.
Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.