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- Picturesque Richardsonian Romanesque church designed by W. A. Holbrook and built in 1893 by Presbyterian congregation. (en)
- A cluster of six stately Neoclassical-styled buildings: the 1900 Oshkosh Public Library, the 1914 Fraternal Reserve Association, the 1924 Goettman Printing Company, the 1925 Oshkosh Masonic Temple, the 1929 U.S. Post Office, and the 1925 Wisconsin National Life Insurance Building. (en)
- Large, mainly residential district on the east side, including the 1870 Italianate Weisbrod house, the 1885 Queen Anne Roenitz house, the 1897 Queen Anne Buckstaff house pictured at left, the 1903 Georgian Revival Oshkosh Yacht Club, the 1904 Colonial Revival Schmidt house, the 1911 Schwalm bungalow, the 1927 English Cottage-style Meusel house, and the 1929 Tudor Revival Stephenson house. (en)
- Neoclassical office building with four colossal columns in front, decorated with relief sculpture. Designed by Auler and Jensen and built in 1927. Used by Winnebago County in 2008. (en)
- Brick Italianate home built around 1868 for Bavarian immigrant George Mayer, the first jeweler in Oshkosh. John Banderob lived in the house from 1890 to 1921. He was also a German immigrant, Civil War veteran, furniture manufacturer, and progressive six-term mayor of Oshkosh. (en)
- Colonial Revival post office with atypical mansard roof, built in 1931. (en)
- Italianate-styled fire house designed by William Waters and built in 1868, after major fires in 1859 and 1866. By the time it closed in 1946, #4 spanned the transitions from volunteer firemen to professionals, from mobile pumps to hose wagons, and from horses to motorized trucks. (en)
- Early inn/trading post built in 1843 by Augustin Grignon on the Tomahawk Trail, which ran from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien. The Greek Revival building housed a trading post, post office and saloon on the first floor and guest rooms on the second. It is one of the oldest wooden buildings in the state. (en)
- The old commercial heart of Neenah, including the 1858 Wheeler & Leavens Block, a.k.a. Sorenson & Son Furniture, the 1866 Jandrey dry good store, the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Sherry's Post Office Block, the 1894 Romanesque-styled Winnebago Paper Company Office, and the 1934 Art Deco Northwestern Distributing Company Store and Manufactury. (en)
- Public school built in phases, with the first High Victorian Italianate sections designed by Waters and built in 1879, 1893 and 1907, and other sections built later. George Read was Superintendent of Schools at the time. (en)
- This 1894 building is now the "most complete example of late 19th century commercial vernacular form in Menasha." German immigrant Gustav worked his way up from farming and factory work to running a grocery in the first floor of this building and living upstairs. (en)
- Queen Anne-style home built in 1885 for David Barnes, with 2-story carriage house. Whiting remodeled the house and installed a secret liquor vault during Prohibition. He led the Wisconsin River operations of his father's Whiting Paper Co. and promoted air travel in the Fox Valley. (en)
- Hip-roofed red-brick depot of the C&NW, designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Richardsonian Romanesque style. Built in 1892, remodeled in 1942, and in service until 1982. (en)
- Modest but classic 1893 Shingle-style home designed by Waters. (en)
- The old middle-school complex, consisting of the Romanesque Revival/Italianate high school built 1893 and 1909, the 1906 Romanesque Webster building, and the Annex built in 1934. The Webster Manual Training School was one of the early vocational-ed schools in the state. (en)
- Brick commercial building designed by local architect H. D. Werwath in Mediterranean Revival style and built in 1928. It included a 932-seat movie theater, stores, a 12-lane bowling alley in the basement, and apartments upstairs. (en)
- Richardsonian Romanesque church designed by Waters and built 1887-89, with a large round Tiffany stained glass window portraying "The Angel of Prayer". (en)
- Second-generation one-room school, with hipped roof and bell tower, built around 1900. (en)
- Spanish Revival-styled boathouse with rooftop dancing pavilion, where Whiting hosted yachting and tennis parties. Designed by Richard Messmer and built in 1932. Donated to the city after Whiting's death. (en)
- Rambling English-like country house with gardens, designed in Tudor Revival style by Bryant Fleming and built from 1927 to 1947 by lumberman Nathan Paine as a home, and as a gift to his community. Now an art museum and arboretum. (en)
- String of large, elaborate homes, once known as the "Gold Coast" of Oshkosh. Many were built by lumber barons and officers of their companies. Notable examples of different styles are the 1857 Greek Revival Kohlmann house, the 1868 Italianate Anthes house, the 1888 Queen Anne Charles Wood house, the 1897 Shingle-style Ideson-Osborn house, the 1911 Richardsonian Romanesque Moses Hooper house, the 1908 Tudor Revival Sawyer house, the 1911 Colonial Revival Schriber house, the 1917 Wright-designed Prairie Style Hunt house, and the 1926 Mediterranean Revival Converse house. (en)
- High Victorian Gothic church designed by A. Duiding and built in 1886. Built grand because it was supposed to be the see for NE Wisconsin. Also the 1904 St Francis Cabrini Elementary school. (en)
- The old commercial downtown of Oshkosh, rebuilt after the fires of 1874 and 1875 in brick to replace the previous wood buildings. Notable examples of different styles include the Waters-designed 1876 Italianate Beckwith House Hotel, the 1895 Queen Anne Webster Block, the 1907 Soldiers Monument at Market and High Ave., the 1926 Modern Broadfront-styled Foute-Slate Auto Company, and the 1927 Neo-Gothic/Art Deco Raulf Hotel. (en)
- Paleo-Indian and Archaic archaeological site, which has produced many rhyolite adzes. (en)
- Buildings of the old teachers training school, including the 1912 Industrial Education Building and the 1917 Administration and Science Building designed by Van Ryn & DeGelleke, and the 1926 Swart Training School designed by Arthur Peabody, along with the Oviatt house described elsewhere on this page. (en)
- This site of an Oneota village from 1200 to 1500 AD contained garden beds, cache pits, bone tools, shells, human bones, copper flakes, charcoal and pottery. (en)
- Drawbridge across the Government Canal, specifically a Strauss Trunnion bascule bridge with Classical styling, designed by McMahon & Clark Engineering of Menasha and built 1928-29. (en)
- Large Queen Anne house with Eastlake ornamentation built in 1889, with 2-story carriage house. Waterman was a lumberman. (en)
- Elegant brick commercial building built in 1882 in the business district near the Butte des Morts Bridge. The first floor housed a saloon and Bavarian immigrant Koch's own dry goods store. Koch lived on the second floor and rented out an apartment there. (en)
- Well-preserved Greek Revival home with summer kitchen, built in 1848. Vining from Massachusetts, was an early settler of the Neenah area. (en)
- Old downtown, including the 1884 High Victorian Scott Block and Planner's Block, the 1892 Clovis Block, the 1894 Queen Anne-styled Masonic Block, the 1895 Romanesque Revival Beck's Meat Market, the 1897 Neoclassical Elisha D. Smith Library, and the 1905 Waters-designed Hotel Menasha. (en)
- Large residential district of homes built from 1858 to 1938, dominated by Queen Anne homes like the 1880 Edward Jones house. Other styles are represented, including the 1878 Italianate Rogers house, the 1900 NeoClassical Radford house, the 1914 Craftsman/Prairie Style Davis house, the 1921 Mediterranean Revival Foster house, the 1924 Clark Bungalow, and the 1938 Tudor Revival Zielke house. (en)
- Tudor Revival-styled Eagles' meeting hall designed by Henry Auler and built by Alfred Ganther in 1924, with ballrooms above and a bowling alley in the basement. (en)
- Large house of squared logs built in 1845 by James Doty, territorial judge, land developer , and governor of Wisconsin Territory and Utah Territory. Mrs. Doty is said to have named the house. Reconstructed in 1948 and now a museum. (en)
- Late Victorian Gothic public building designed by Charles Hove and built in 1885. Initially housed city offices, fire department, jail and council chambers. Demolished in 1988. (en)
- Early Wisconsin airport, opened in 1922 by the four Larson brothers, with the original sod landing field and a hangar constructed with barn-building techniques. The Larsons were the first agency in Wisconsin to sell government-approved planes. (en)
- Two 2-story factory buildings built in 1910, which housed an enterprise that made rugs and carpets with the wire grass that was native to the marshes west and south of Oshkosh. Operated for 50 years. (en)
- Queen Anne house with Georgian Revival influences built in 1885. Kerwin was a son of Menasha who successfully opposed railroad and utility interests as a local attorney, served as Neenah city attorney, on the UW Board of Regents, and on the state Supreme Court. (en)
- Large Queen Anne house designed by Waters and built in 1888 for Richard W. Guenther, a Prussian immigrant, Oshkosh druggist, Wisconsin state treasurer, US Congressman, and diplomat. From 1906 to 1913 the large house also hosted the new Lakeside Sanitorium and Training School for Nurses, which later evolved into Mercy Medical Center. (en)
- A gift from J. C. Kimberly, built in 1945 to serve as a rest stop, a guide into Neenah harbor, and a landmark for boat races. Also known as Neenah Light. (en)
- Rambling mansion begun by Smith in 1890 and later expanded with various pavilions and porches with Queen Anne, Italianate, and Colonial Revival features. Charles was a son of Elisha Smith, founder of Menasha Wooden Ware, and expanded, modernized, and diversified the company when he took over. For his second wife, Smith got the town of Warner renamed Ladysmith, and after Charles died, that wife married the silent movie actor Orrin Johnson, who retired to the mansion. (en)
- Queen Anne home designed by Waters and built in 1893. Jennings was a partner in a small lumber business. (en)
- Newspaper office and production building designed by Auler, Jensen & Brown of Oshkosh in Neo-Italian Renaissance style and built in 1930. The Daily Northwestern, founded in 1860 and guided by John Hicks, became one of the strongest Republican papers in the state, and is the only survivor of the early papers. (en)
- Built in 1911, this was one of the earliest vocational-tech schools in Wisconsin. Building is a 3-story Neoclassical design of Waters. Orville ran lumber mills, was involved in banks, and helped found the Oshkosh and Mississippi Railroad. His wife Helen gave the city a large endowment to found the school. (en)
- Spanish-Mediterranean Revival home completed in 1920 by Fluor Brothers of Oshkosh for Pollock, who headed Oshkosh Overall Co, which would become Oshkosh B'Gosh. Pollock later donated it to the Teachers College and it has served as dormitory etc, but remains well-preserved. (en)
- Cream-brick Victorian opera house designed by Waters and built in 1883, hosting Caruso, the Barrymores, James Whitcomb Riley, Jenny Lind, Mark Twain, and others. Converted to a movie theater in 1949, and restored to a live theater in the 1980s. (en)
- Home with 4-story tower and porte cochere, designed by Waters in High Victorian Gothic style with some Queen Anne decoration and built in 1883. Sherry was a lumberman with interests in northeastern and central Wisconsin. The house was later the home of Hugh Strange of the Strange Lumber Company. (en)
- Consists of the 1930 Northwest Electrotype & Engraving Office & Plant and the 1935 Verbrick's Gas Station. Both are in Tudor Revival style, part of an effort by Menasha Wooden Ware Corp. to redevelop its stave yards on Doty Island into an "English-styled" commercial district. (en)
- Georgian Revival post office with fanlight and palladian window, built 1916-18. (en)
- Late Victorian municipal building with a 3.5 story tower, designed by Fred G. Root and built in 1896 to house Omro's village offices, fire department, and jail. Now houses the museum. (en)
- Well-to-do neighborhood with 27 contributing properties, including the 1882 Italianate/Second Empire Syme-Gilbert House, several Queen Anne houses listed below, the 1904 Colonial Revival/Queen Anne Gilbert-Lachmann House pictured at left, the 1915 Arts & Crafts/Craftsman Pfeiffer-Kimberley house, the 1924 American Foursquare Seiler House, and the 1937 International-styled Bellack House. (en)
- Unusual urban church building with storefronts at street-level. The building was begun as an opera house, until damaged by a fire in 1874. At that point the Methodist congregation bought it and completed it as a Neo-Classical-styled church. After they moved to a new building in 1970, it was used by Boys' Club and as a homeless shelter.https://books.google.com/books?id=hvi7kkaoLCwC&pg=PA559&lpg=PA559&dq=%22first+methodist+church%22+%22oshkosh%22&source=bl&ots=Sxn8fDyuD5&sig=nj7vekwmUP6zzepClMW2BZc39y4&hl=en&ei=E7vLS9q7ApCCswPqlPGLAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22first%20methodist%20church%22%20%22oshkosh%22&f=false (en)
- Two-story house built in 1878 and restyled to Queen Anne in 1888. In that year George began printing with a small press in the dining room of this house. That operation expanded to the modern Banta Corporation, which survived to 2006. (en)
- Meeting hall of a fraternal life insurance society, designed by William Waters in Neoclassical style and built in 1908. (en)
- Edward Paine founded a lumber mill here on the east bank of the Fox in 1853. His sons and grandson developed the enterprise, steering it through the Oshkosh Woodworkers Strike of 1898 and growing it into the largest sash and door company in the world in 1929. Remnants include row houses for workers, a company bank, and the dockwall along the river. (en)
- Queen Anne home with two towers, built in 1894, probably designed by Waters. Bergstrom immigrated from Norway in 1851, co-founded Bergstrom Brothers Stove Works, and served as mayor and director of banks in Neenah and Kaukauna. His son co-designed the Pentagon. (en)
- The Cape-Cod styled core was built in 1932 by Menasha industrialist George Gaylord, then extensively remodeled and expanded by Sensenbrenner in 1941 in various period revival styles. Sensenbrenner and his father were executives at Kimberly-Clark. (en)
- Shingle-style home built in 1904. Frank was an Indiana furniture manufacturer who married Helen Howard, and joined her father's paper-making business. Their son, film director Howard Hawks, spent part of his boyhood in the house. (en)
- Arts and Crafts-styled home overlooking the Fox River, designed by Alexander Eschweiler in the manner of British architect Charles Voysey in 1911. Edward led a door manufacturing business and Vina was a Kimberly-Clark heiress. (en)
- Greek Revival home with a full one-story porch, built in 1866. Frank Amos was a teamster and partner in lumber companies. (en)
- Archeological site beside the Fox River where gunflints, tinkling cones, and beads were found. (en)
- Victorian house with an exterior of rough blue limestone and corner tower, designed by Waters and built in 1883 for Moses Hooper. Hooper was an Oshkosh attorney who represented Kimberly-Clark among others, and was such an authority on riparian rights that he appeared before the US Supreme Court repeatedly. In 1900 the house was bought by Dr. Charles Oviatt, a noted surgeon who insisted that nuns assisting in surgery wear sterilized garb rather than woolen habits, and eventually received a letter of agreement from Pope Leo XIII. (en)
- Omro's old commercial downtown, including the 1871 Race Hardware store Building, the 1874 Northwestern Hotel, the 1881 Frank Building, the 1894 I.O.O.F. Building, the 1890-95 Earl & McGuire grocery building, and the 1927 Anton Bank Meat Market. (en)
- Brick and limestone bank designed by Oshkosh architect Julius Dreger in NeoClassical style and built by C.R. Meyer and Sons in 1926-27, with a 20-foot vault from the Mosler Safe Company. (en)
- Large old cemetery begun in 1855 along the Fox River, with a 1921 Richardsonian Romanesque chapel, a G.A.R. veterans plot, a Masonic section, a potter's field, and family mausoleums in various styles. (en)
- Queen Anne house with Colonial Revival veranda, built in 1886. Danish immigrant Jersild was a Lutheran minister who was a key player in a doctrinal battle that split the Danish Lutheran Church of America. He was also a publisher, and founder of the Jersild Knitting Company. (en)
- Well-preserved 2.5 story Queen Anne home with 3-story round tower and touches of Eastlake style, Stick style, and Tudor Revival, designed by Waters and completed in 1883. Interior furnishings are mostly Eastlake, chosen by Havilah Babcock, one of the four founders of Kimberly, Clark and Co. (en)
- Elaborate Queen Anne home with octagonal tower, designed and built by Bell and Cole of Oshkosh in 1884. Morgan was an immigrant from Wales, a civic leader, and a principal of Morgan Brothers, a large sash, door and blind company. (en)
- Brick Renaissance Revival-style school designed by William Waters and built by Meyer and Domke in 1896. (en)
- Private observatory built around 1924 by amateur astronomer Ralph Buckstaff of Buckstaff Furniture, from which he studied sunspots, discovered the variable star Yi 1256, and took observations for the US Weather Service for over 50 years. Dismantled and moved in 2011. (en)
- Paleo-indian archeological site which has produced two distinct types of early projectile points, and hints at their sequencing. (en)
- Ornate early Italianate house built in 1856 for Bowen, real estate developer and investor in Michigan lumber. Later divided into rental units. (en)
- Richardsonian Romanesque Methodist church designed by Oshkosh architect William Waters and built in 1892. Prominent Oshkosh families belonged, including the Paines, Sawyers and Hicks. (en)
- Georgian Revival home with porte cochere designed by Ferry & Clas and built 1890-93. Shattuck was a founder of Kimberly-Clark. His son Arthur was a well-known concert pianist. Daniel Brown, president of the Neenah Paper Company, later lived in the house. (en)
- Another Smith mansion, started in 1892 and expanded by another son of Elisha Smith and executive of Menasha Wooden Ware. Included music room, conservatory, 3-story tower, and third floor ballroom. At least partly designed by Waters. (en)
- Neighborhood of homes constructed from 1908 to 1930, predominantly Craftsman bungalows built by middle-class carpenters, railroad men, machinists, salesmen, etc. (en)
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