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 Courthouse Square Historic District - Lancaster, WI
N 42° 50.868 W 090° 42.593
15T E 687127 N 4746457
The Courthouse Square Historic District comprises the downtown commercial and government area of the city of Lancaster.
Waymark Code: WM5N4N
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2009
Views: 5
From Wikipedia ( visit link) : "Major G.M. Price, a land speculator, laid out the town in 1837. He was persuaded to name it Lancaster by a relative who emigrated from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At Pleasant Ridge, one of the first Afro-American communities in Wisconsin was founded by the Shepard family in 1849 and settled in the 1850s. Lancaster was the home of the first Governor of Wisconsin, Nelson Dewey. Lancaster calls itself "The City of the Dome" after the octagonal glass and copper-clad dome of its courthouse building, which was designed by Armand Koch and built in 1905. In the spandrels of the courthouse dome are four allegorical murals painted by Franz Edward Rohrbeck. The Municipal Building (1922) is an example of Prairie School early modern architecture, which has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The post office contains a Depression-era mural, painted under the Works Progress Administration program in the 1930s."
Street address:
Cherry, Jefferson, Madison, and Maple Sts.
Lancaster, WI USA
53813
County / Borough / Parish: Grant
Year listed: 2006
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering: Architect, builder, or engineer: Koch, H.C. & Co., Claude & Starck: Style: Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
Periods of significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924, 1925-1949, 1950-1974
Historic function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic: Financial Institution, Hotel, Specialty Store
Current function: Commerce/Trade: Financial Institution, Restaurant, Specialty Store
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Privately owned?: Not Listed
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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