National Historic Landmark - Taliesin East

A superb example of Wright's organic architecture, growing out of his Prairie Style work, Taliesin was the second great center of his activity (after Oak Park, Illinois). The principal surviving complexes are Taliesin III (1925), Hillside Home School (1902, 1933), ...

National Historic Landmark - Soldiers Home Reef

This rock mound in the Menomonee River Valley near Milwaukee was discovered by Increase A. Lapham, Wisconsin's first scientist, in the 1830s. In 1862, James Hall was the first to recognize and interpret this and several other earby mounds as ...

National Historic Landmark - Silver Mound Archeological District

This site is nationally significant for its role in the initial settlement of North America. The first Americans explored an expansive stretch of land with no prior knowledge of the landscape. Because of the need to locate resources within this ...

National Historic Landmark-Second Ft. Crawford Military Hospital

The only remaining building of the fort which was the center of Federal authority in the Old Northwest, this structure is a reconstruction of the post hospital originally built c. 1835.

Archeological remains of the first Fort Crawford were found in ...

National Historic Landmark - Schoonmaker Reef

This Landmark is a 425-million-year-old fossil reef, one of the first recognized as such in the United States in 1862. Professional geologists used data collected from the reef to formulate theories fundamental in the study of geology.

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National Historic Landmark-Ringling Bros. Circus Winter Quarters

From 1884 until 1918, these structures served as the winter headquarters for the Ringling Brothers Circus. By 1900, the Ringling Brothers had built their circus into one of the largest on the circuit; in 1907, with the purchase of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Pabst Theater

This is the best preserved German-American theater in the United States, and is one of the most tangible reminders of the cultural role of Milwaukee, the "Deutsch Athen" (German Athens), as it was known to generations of German-Americans. Constructed in ...

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 ...