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Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library

The Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States, and is a location of the Kenosha Public Library (KPL), which is part of the Kenosha County Library System (KCLS) The Simmons Memorial Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and was the first formal location for KPL. History The Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library was the first public building in the City Park district in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Upon its completion, City Park became known as Library Park. Daniel Burnham designed the Neoclassical library while Ossian Cole Simonds developed the landscaping plan. Former Kenosha mayor Zalmon G. Simmons donated $150,000 for the building's construction on the condition that it be named in honor for his deceased son. The city agreed, and the library opened to the public on May 30, 1900. As the city's first public library building, Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library greatly increased the volumes of literature available to the citizens of Kenosha. By the mid-1910s, the library had 124,368 volumes and sought to expand with a branch library. The building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1974. When the Library Park Historic District was created in 1988, the library was listed as a contributing property. There are rumors of the library being haunted by a female ghost and a legend of a secret tomb in the library. Services Collections The Simmons Library's collection count is over 13,000 items, has access to over 275,000 items via the other Kenosha Public Library locations, and over 2 million items through the partnership with libraries in Racine County, Walworth County, and Rock County. Technology The Simmons Library technology services include public access computers and free wireless internet access throughout the library. The Library provides access to e-books, music, movies, and other electronic collections. The library provides access to a color printer & copier for a fee. Printing at the library uses a secure release station to help protect patron privacy, with a secondary printer located in the Children's Room. A fax machine is also available for public use, with a 3D printer available by request from the Southwest Library. The library operates a Book Break telephone hotline during the COVID-19 pandemic, which reads stories to children. The library system uses RFID pads on all library materials where users only need to place the book on a table and check out occurs without scanning. See also Kenosha, Wisconsin Library Park Historic District (Kenosha, Wisconsin) References External links Media related to Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library at Wikimedia Commons Official website Kenosha County Library System
Library Park (Belleville, Wisconsin)

Library Park is the village green in Belleville, Wisconsin, platted in 1851, to which the two-story cream brick village hall was added in 1894. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989. History The main building in the park is the former Belleville Village Hall, built in 1894. It was also used as a firehouse, jail and a public library. Aside from the Village Hall, the park itself has been important to the community, hosting high school commencements, picnics, band concerts, 4 July celebrations, and ice cream socials. In the 1930s and 1940s village merchants offered free movies in the park on Saturday evenings in summer. The School Fair was also held there, with cattle tied around waiting to be judged. In 1960, the library was moved to a different location and in 1998, the Belleville Historical Society acquired the building. Also in the park is a historic pump house and a more-recently built gazebo, fountain and memorial plaque. References
Monroe County Courthouse (Wisconsin)

The Monroe County Courthouse in Sparta, Wisconsin is a historic courthouse built in 1895, designed by architect Mifflin E. Bell. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is Richardsonian Romanesque in style. It is a three-story red sandstone building with a hipped roof attic. References External links Media related to Monroe County Courthouse (Wisconsin) at Wikimedia Commons
Palacio de Justicia del Condado de Monroe

El Palacio de Justicia del Condado de Monroe en Sparta, Wisconsin es un palacio de justicia histórico construido en 1895, diseñado por el arquitecto Mifflin E. Bell. Fue incluido en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos en 1982.​ Es de estilo románico richardsoniano. Es un edificio de piedra arenisca roja de tres pisos con un ático de techo a cuatro aguas. Referencias
Gimbels Parking Pavilion

The Gimbels Parking Pavilion is an Art Moderne-style parking ramp built by Gimbels Department Store for its customers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1947. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. History In 1887 the Gimbel family from Vincennes, Indiana bought a four-story building in Milwaukee's premier shopping district and moved their retail operation, setting up a department store selling goods like cloaks, carpeting and curtains, and offering credit and free delivery - a new type of store at the time. Gimbel Brothers Department Store prospered over the years, and one construction project after another expanded the building. When Gimbel's opened in 1887, people traveled by streetcar, by buggy, or by foot. After the turn of the century automobiles began appearing; e.g. 1908 saw the appearance of the Ford Model T, the first car affordable to the middle class. Numbers of cars climbed through 1930s, then dropped during WWII. Starting in 1945 they began to rise again, from 131,963 vehicles registered in Milwaukee in 1945 to 158,812 in 1947. The city had been considering parking shortages for years; in 1947, Gimbels addressed their part of the problem on their own. Gimbels acquired space for the parking pavilion across the street from their store. Architect Frank Drolshagen and engineer V.K. Boynton designed the pavilion in Art Moderne style, typified by smooth lines and curves suggested by airplane forms, and a modern feel disconnected from historic styles. At the curved corner entrance was a store called Electric City where Gimbels sold electrical appliances in the early years. Valets at the store parked cars, sold gas, and washed cars while customers shopped. Gimbels Pavilion was placed on the NRHP for several reasons. It stands as a surviving example of attendant-staffed parking designed to handle the popularity of the auto in Milwaukee's downtown. It is also the only Art Moderne-styled parking garage in Milwaukee, though other buildings like the Exton Apartments Building at 1260 N. Prospect are in the same style. References
Plough Inn (Madison, Wisconsin)

The Plough Inn is a stone and brick structure built in 1853 southwest of what was then Madison, Wisconsin. The building served as an inn for travelers on the road heading southwest for the lead-mining region. In 1980 the inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History Frederick and Amelia Paunack were immigrants from Saxony in what is now Germany. Frederick arrived in America in 1849, lived in Baltimore for two years, then moved to Madison in 1851. He was a stonecutter, worked on university buildings, and bought a business that produced construction stone. In 1853 Paunack built a house that is the uphill end of the inn described by this article. That first section was two stories tall, clad in locally quarried sandstone. The low-pitched roof with cornice returns were elements from the Greek Revival style that was popular at the time. One corner is clipped because that's where the property line lay at the time it was built. The Paunacks' house was on an important road leading out of Madison toward southwest Wisconsin, and they soon began hosting travellers there. But the Paunacks sold the inn after a couple years to a Thomas Griffiths, and he quickly sold it to John Whare, a glass-blower from England. In 1858 Whare probably added a brick section that expanded the capacity of the inn. This downhill end of the building exposes some basement windows and a doorway that led into the inn's taproom. A parlor at the front of the house was the inn's common room, with the kitchen behind it. In the 1860 census John is listed as a tavernkeeper, with wife Isabella and four children. This is when the inn began to be called Plough Inn, since Whare also sold plows to farmers. Whare's inn hosted travelling salesmen, farmers, legislatures, and Union soldiers during the Civil War. Whare operated the inn until 1865. Since then the inn has been called Halfway House, Swain House, and Frey House. Professor Roland Stebbins lived there with his family. The house served as writer's studio, an antique and art shop, and B&B. The original sandstone and brick have been covered with stucco. IN 1980 the inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and the State Register of Historic Places in 1989, as an unusual "significant remnant of Madison's early development." References
Saint Anthony Hospital (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

Saint Anthony Hospital is a historic building located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. History When founded, St. Anthony primarily served Milwaukee's African-American population and was co-founded by Wisconsin's first Black physician, Dr. Allen Herron. In 1954, Dr. John W. Maxwell, Sr. became Wisconsin's first-ever Black hospital chief of staff when he took the top job at St. Anthony. After five decades serving as a hospital, it was converted for a brief time to become a family medical center in the late 1980s before closing outright. The facility has also been used as a detention center — it is located across the street from the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility — although St. Anthony was vacant for the majority of the '90s, '00s, and '10s. The loss of St. Anthony as a medical hub is a contributing factor to the ongoing "medical desert" problem affecting Milwaukee's predominantly Black population. The building was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. In 2019, nonprofit organizations began converting the building to provide low-income housing, a project that collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2025, the reentry nonprofit Project RETURN, Inc., moved in and is currently providing housing to men at risk of homelessness as they exit incarceration. References
Ashland Union Station

The Union Depot in Ashland, Wisconsin, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It has also been known as the Ashland Depot. It is a red brick building with stone belt courses, quoins, and other details. The depot was designed by Charles Sumner Frost and was used by the Chicago and North Western Railway and its subsidiary, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (Omaha Road), for the Flambeau 400 service to Chicago. More recently, the building has been utilized as a fitness center and the train tracks converted into an exercise trail. References
Lake Killian

Lake Killian is a small kettle lake wholly encompassed by Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan Scout Reservation in Pearson, Wisconsin. It is a central geographic feature of the camp, dividing it into East Camp and West Camp on opposing sides of the lake. Both East Camp and West Camp maintain aquatics facilities where campers can complete various merit badges. The lake is used by scouts on both sides of the lake for fishing, swimming, and boating. Spring Lake Road, which goes through the scout reservation, is named for the lake. Hydrology Lake Killian receives all of its water from springs and precipitation; the only outflow is Skid's Creek on the west side of the lake. Skid's Creek drains from so far north in the lake that water in the southern basin has a significantly greater residence time than more northern waters. Bathymetry The bathymetric character of Lake Killian is dominated by a shallow northern third, with depths under 3 metres. The lake steadily deepens moving toward its center, with a deep central basin of 5 metres' depth or deeper occupying the central third. The southern and eastern portions of the lake are generally deeper than the northern and western regions. A large sandbar, less than a metre under the surface and stretching a hundred metres from end to end, dominates the southwestern extremity of the lake and is surrounded by comparatively shallow waters. The deep central basin of the lake plunges to a maximum of 7.6 metres (25 ft), though the average depth is much shallower, only 3.6 metres (12 ft). References External links Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan Scout Reservation
Sun Prairie Water Tower

The Sun Prairie Water Tower was built in 1899 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 1999 and to the National Register of Historic Places the following year. The first non-native settlers arrived in Sun Prairie in 1839. In 1840 the road to Madison passed nearby. A sawmill was there by 1847, a hotel by 1850, and the railroad reached town in 1859. The village was incorporated in 1868. In the late 1800s the village began developing public services. A volunteer fire department formed in 1891. In 1900 a private electric company hung electric wires along Main Street. Before 1899, people got their water from private wells and cisterns. In that year the village trustees and the Sun Prairie Countryman debated building a waterworks, arguing that: "To induce others to settle with us we must have the conveniences that they are used to. To get factories here we must have better fire protection and in order to better our facilities we must have a waterworks." Fear of taxes weighed against. After much debate, a public waterworks was approved by vote. Stegerwald and Lessner, a local firm, won the bid to build a 60-foot stone tower to support the tank for $1750, and they built it in October and November 1899, re-using stone from the old Stevens Mill five miles northeast on the Maunesha River. The stonework is uniform and carefully done. At the base of the tower, a round-topped door is framed in radiating limestone blocks. Five windows allow light into the tower. A wooden tank originally sat on the tower, bought from Challenge Wind Mill and Feed Mill Company of Batavia. John M. Healy of Chicago provided pipe for the water system, and laid it. By 1911 the wooden tank was insufficient, and was replaced with a steel tank from Kennicott Water Softener of Chicago. Another flaw was that the original system only took water to homes; it didn't get waste water out of the homes. That problem was resolved in 1918 with a waste water treatment plant. The NRHP nomination considers the Sun Prairie tower significant for being built of stone, which is rare for a water tower in Wisconsin. It is also significant for its fine stonework, and as a symbol of the movement toward municipal services in the community. References
Glen Park Municipal Swimming Pool

Glen Park Municipal Swimming Pool is a historic swimming pool in River Falls, Wisconsin. The complex includes a pool and two American Craftsman Style buildings. The pool was built as a Civil Works Administration project during the Great Depression. Work on the pool began in 1933-34 and continued through 1937 with additional support from the Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration. Engineer Herman T. Hagestad, who would later become city engineer and ultimately mayor of River Falls, designed the pool. The pool was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 and is still operational. References External links City of River Falls Parks And Recreation: Parks
Goodwill Industries Building

The Goodwill Industries Building is a former knitting factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where Oliver and Robert Friedman developed innovative rehab programs for the blind and mentally handicapped in the 1930s and 40s. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. History The Van Dyke Knitting Company was a producer of "fine grade" ribbed underwear, founded in 1885 by a family of prominent Milwaukee lawyers, with a factory on S. Water Street. In 1913 the company built the four-story mill building, designed by Herman J. Esser. Over the years they added on, assembling most of the current complex by 1925. In the 1930s the company moved its manufacturing operation from Milwaukee to McComb, Mississippi. Goodwill Industries bought the factory in Milwaukee the following year. Goodwill had started in 1902 as a mission project of Dr. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist minister in South Boston. Helms aimed to provide training and employment for the disadvantaged and disabled. In 1910 his operation expanded from Boston nationwide. After 1915 the organization assumed the name 'Goodwill.' Milwaukee Goodwill Industries was formed in 1917. Helms appointed Oliver Friedman executive secretary of the Milwaukee organization in 1921. Friedman built the organization to nearly a hundred by the mid-1930s. Milwaukee Goodwill had outgrown the vacant church it was operating from when the Van Dyke complex became available, and bought Van Dyke's plant in 1936. Over the years, Friedman developed the idea that Goodwill could provide more than employment. He envisioned the organization developing seven aspects of rehabilitation: physical rehab, mental and emotional rehab, spiritual guidance, vocational guidance and training, educational guidance, economic rehab, and social adjustment. In 1937 and '38 he started an Occupational Therapy Department within the Milwaukee Goodwill - the first such venture in any rehab organization in the U.S. In 1938 Friedman succeeded Helms as head of Goodwill Industries nationwide. During WWII the organization led salvage drives and fundraising efforts. Robert Friedmann, Oliver's son, was named managing director of the Milwaukee unit in 1942. He pioneered jobs for blind and mentally handicapped people, connecting them with local companies that needed packing and assembly. He also started providing personal counselors who coordinated services customized for each worker. In 1963 Goodwill moved to 6055 North 91st Street. Brill Bros. manufactured clothes in the plant until the late 1990s. In 2003 the building was converted to apartments. References
Swan House and Vita Spring Pavilion

The Swan House and Vita Spring Pavilion are located in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. History The pavilion sits over a spring that was the focal point of a resort called Vita Park. Opened by Dr. George E. Swan, the resort drew visitors from around the country, while local residents were allowed access free of charge. In 1906, the property was bought by the city and in 1916, it became Swan Park. The former residence of Swan and his wife is located nearby. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989. References
Governor Dodge State Park

Governor Dodge State Park is a 5,270-acre (2,133 ha) Wisconsin state park outside Dodgeville in Iowa County, Wisconsin. Named after Henry Dodge, the first governor of the Wisconsin Territory, the park contains geologic features indicative of the Driftless Area. It is located 4.1 miles north of the Central business district of the City of Dodgeville. The land is mostly oak and hickory forest with some sandstone bluff outcroppings and one named waterfall, Stephen's Falls. Common activities include boating (electric motors only), fishing, picnicking and swimming on the park's two lakes, Cox Hollow Lake and Twin Valley Lake. There is a boat launch, dam and a swimming area at each of the lakes. Away from the lakes one can find hiking trails, cross-country ski trails, mountain bike trails and horse trails. Seasonal activities include hunting in the fall and snowmobiling in the winter. A concession stand is maintained by the Dodgeville Kiwanis near Cox Hollow Beach. Food, gifts, clothing and basic camping gear can be purchased. The stand offers boat, canoe and paddle-boat rentals for visitors to both lakes. Like most Wisconsin State Parks, Governor Dodge State park allows overnight camping. 267 family campsites, 8 group campsites, 11 family sites for horse campers, 2 group sites for horse campers and 6 backpack sites are available throughout the summer months. Several family campsites are open year-round. Fauna There is a large variety of fauna in the park, such as White-tailed Deer, shrew, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, beaver, red fox, gray fox, woodchuck, muskrat, Red-tailed hawk, turkey vulture, pileated woodpecker, barred owl, raccoon and Coyote. There are also more than 150 species of birds. Flora There is also a varied flora in the park, such as trees and flowers. Some types include oak, hickory, white pine, red pine, jack pine, bloodroot, hepatica, Dutchman's breeches, interrupted fern, goldenrod, sunflower, aster, milkweed, boneset, iron weed and mountain mint. Gallery Support The Friends of Governor Dodge State Park is a group of volunteers working to support recreation, education and environmental stewardship in the park through periodic meetings and hosting work days to better the park. References External links Governor Dodge State Park Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Governor Dodge State Park Map Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Friends of Governor Dodge State Park
Governor Nelson State Park

Governor Nelson State Park is a 422-acre (171 ha) Wisconsin state park located outside of Waunakee, Wisconsin in the town of Westport on the north shore of Lake Mendota. It is named for former Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson. On most days the Wisconsin State Capitol building can be seen in nearby Madison. Common activities include boating, fishing, picnicking and swimming. There is also a boat launch and a swimming area for pets. Away from the lake one can find restored prairie and savanna, effigy mounds, hiking trails and ski trails. History A portion of the site of the park originally hosted a boys' camp called Camp Indianola. Orson Welles was a camper at the camp in his youth. The camp closed in 1967. Gallery References External links Governor Nelson State Park Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Governor Nelson State Park Map Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Governor Thompson State Park

Governor Thompson State Park is a 2,800-acre (1,133 ha) state park in Wisconsin, United States, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Crivitz. The park contains 6.5 miles (10.5 km) of shoreline on the Caldron Falls Reservoir, part of the Peshtigo River, and 5,300 feet (1,600 m) of shoreline on two kettles, Woods Lake and Huber Lake. Adjacent lands are part of the Peshtigo River State Forest. History The park was created in 2000, the centennial year of the Wisconsin state park system, and named after then-Governor Tommy Thompson. The main parcel creating the park is the former 1,987-acre (804 ha) Paust Woods Lake Resort and about 200 acres (0.81 km2) of wild-looking lakefront bought from Wisconsin Public Service Corporation on Caldron Falls Reservoir. The park opened in 2005. Recreational features The park has 16 miles (26 km) of hiking trails, boat landing on the Caldron Falls Flowage, picnic area along the west shore of Woods Lake, swimming beach, and campgrounds. A park master plan calls for indoor and outdoor group campgrounds, playground and amphitheater. References External links Governor Thompson State Park Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Governor Thompson State Park Map Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources