National Historic Landmark - Thomas A. Green Memorial Museum

Amateur naturalists played a crucial role in the development of 19th-century science by assembling extensive collections of natural history specimens. From 1878 to 1894, Thomas A. Greene assembled a comprehensive collection of minerals from around the world, as well as ...

National Historic Landmark - Hamlin Garland House

This rambling, nondescript structure is associated with author Hamlin Garland (1860-1940). Garland's early work exploded the romantic myths of the West, exposing the hard lot of the pioneers and frontiersmen; his later, more romantic novels--one of which brought him the ...

National Historic Landmark - Fourth Street (Meir) School

Milwaukee's Fourth Street School is the only surviving structure in America associated with Mrs. Golda Meir (1898-1978), who from 1967 to 1974 was Prime Minister of Israel. Fleeing the pogroms of their native Russia, Mrs. Meir's family came to this ...

National Historic Landmark - Fountain Lake Farm Home

John Muir (1838-1914), pioneering advocate of natural preservation, lived at Fountain Lake Farm from 1849 to 1856, during his early teens, and periodically between 1862-1864. Late in life he traced the formation of his conservation philosophy to the years he ...

National Historic Landmark - 1st Unitarian Soc. Meeting House

An internationally recognized premier example of Frank Lloyd Wright's late Usonian architecture, unusual for its nonresidential application. Usonian design refers to what Wright termed as an artistic house of low cost for an average citizen of the United States. Considered ...

National Historic Landmark - Farmers & Merchants Union Bank

Built in 1919, this small, compact bank, for all its elaborate and beautiful ornamentation, has the look of soundness and solidity and imparts the feeling of permanence and safety befitting a bank. Louis Sullivan designed and also supervised construction of ...

National Historic Landmark - Dousman Hotel

Constructed 1864-65, this three story, buff-colored brick structure is the largest, most luxurious and last built of several large hotels in Prairie du Chien during the 19th century, while the town was an important river steamboat and railroad terminus. It ...

National Historic Landmark - Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House

The Day house, architecturally a wonderful example of Victorian ecelecticism, is important for its association with amateur geologist Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day. Day and other naturalists of his time unselfishly assembled large collections of natural history specimens, made detailed observations ...

National Historic Landmark - USS Cobia

Representative of the GATO class of submarines. Although not built by the Manitowoc Shipyards, USS Cobia is symbolic of the great industrial achievement and effort of the people of Wisconsin toward the winning of World War II. She sank 13 ...

National Historic Landmark - Brisbois House

Built about 1840 by the son of Michail Brisbois, a French-Canadian who had been one of the town's first permanent settler in 1781, this 2-1/2 story house shows the prosperity brought by the fur trading industry.

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