National Historic Landmark - Oconto Site

At this prehistoric burial ground, implements of the Old Copper Culture people, who occupied the northern Midwest about 2500 BC, have been found in association with human burials.

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National Historic Landmark - University of Wisconsin, North Hall

Constructed in 1851, this is the first structure built on the campus of the State university which pioneered in extension work, particularly in agricultural programs, and in the involvement of scholars in legislative and regulatory affairs on a non-partisan basis. ...

National Historic Landmark - Namur Historic District

Located in northeastern Wisconsin, this area contains the Nation's largest known concentration of Belgian-influenced farmsteads, other rural buildings, and landscapes features. Namur is a lively ethnic enclave where French is still spoken with a Walloon accent, and where the heritage ...

National Historic Landmark - Milwaukee City Hall

Milwaukee City Hall is nationally significant as the most outstanding extant example of German Renaissance Revival architecture in the country and for its central role in the history of Socialism in the United States prior to World War I. The ...

National Historic Landmark - Milton House

This tall hexagonal building, constructed of concrete grout and covered with plaster, is nationally significant not because of its unusual shape and construction, but because of its ante-bellum usage. Built as a hotel, it and the nearby log Goodrich Cabin ...

National Historic Landmark - Little White Schoolhouse

A meeting in this simple, one story clapboard and frame schoolhouse on March 20, 1854, and another in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, to protest passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which permitted the extension of slavery beyond the limits of ...

National Historic Landmark - Robert M. La Follette home

From 1905 until his death, this was the residence of Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925). La Follette served in the House of Representatives (1885-91), but did not emerge as a major force in governmental reform until his service as Governor ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert Johnson House

Built in 1937-1938 for the President of Johnson's Wax Company, this large house was considered by its architect the finest (and most expensive) house he had built up to that date. Frank Lloyd Wright's design is so completely wedded to ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 2nd House

This was the first house to be built under Wright's concept of the "Solar Hemicycle." Rooms were largely circular or semi circular, oriented towards the sun and protected from the north wind by berms. Wright's use of passive energy to ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 1st House

The Jacobs house is the first Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that was built based on the principle of providing an artistic house of low cost for an average citizen. The Jacobs house stands out in Wright’s work ...