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The First Kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, is the building that housed the first kindergarten in the United States, opened in 1856. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] for its significance to the history of education.
On May 2, 1929, a memorial tablet was dedicated in Watertown, Wisconsin, a few feet from the site of the building where she founded the first kindergarten in America. "In memory of Mrs. Carl Schurz (Margarethe Meyer Schurz) Aug. 27, 1833 -- March 15, 1876, who established on this site the first kindergarten in America, 1856."
The first public school kindergarten in the state of Wisconsin was established in Manitowoc by Charles F. Viebahn and Emily Richter.
The Third Ward School was built in 1876 as a primary and intermediate grade school and then became the city's first kindergarten after the move of those grades to the 1890 Longfellow building. [2] In 1918, it was converted to a "fresh air school", a new concept, providing education and nourishing meals for children with tuberculosis, until 1932 ...
Pages in category "School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Community members snap photos of the new Lake Ivanhoe historical marker on October 15, 2022, in Burlington. The marker commemorates what is considered to be Wisconsin’s first Black-owned resort ...
Four Italianate-styled buildings with party walls and elaborate brickwork, including James Barr's 1850 dry goods store which was the first brick store in Jefferson, Jacob Breunig's 1863 brewery and commercial block, and Nicholas Jung's dry goods store. Much of this was bought by Andreas Puerner in 1892 and developed into a department store ...
Margarethe Schurz (1851–1876), opened first kindergarten in U.S. Philip Stieg (born 1952), chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Medical Center (Milwaukee) David F. Swensen, chief investment officer at Yale University (1985–2021) (River Falls)