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The building was constructed for Edwin P. Barlow. Barlow had founded the annual festival commemorating Wilhelm Tell in New Glarus. The building serves as a museum of Swiss culture. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. [2]
New Glarus: Richardsonian Romanesque-styled school built in 1896, designed by Conover & Porter of Madison. Expanded in 1914, 1915 and 1933, with an Art Deco-styled gym added in 1939. [41] [42] 23: New Glarus Town Hall: New Glarus Town Hall: April 11, 2008 : 206 2nd St. New Glarus
Wisconsin received about 100 or so Lustron homes, built between 1948 and 1950. ... 207 Center Ave, Mount Horeb, WI; New Glarus. 419 8th Ave, New Glarus, WI; Oshkosh ...
New Glarus is a village in Green County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 2,266 at the 2020 census. [2] It was founded in 1845 by immigrants from the canton of Glarus in eastern Switzerland, from which the village takes its name. [6]
The first settlers came to New Glarus in 1845, immigrants from Glarus, Switzerland. By the 1880s the community had over 1000 residents, with many occupied in farming, cheese-making, and supporting activities. In 1886 the town and the Ancient Order of United Workmen decided to build a structure to house meetings of both organizations.
The Freitag Homestead is a historic farm begun in 1848 in the town of Washington, Green County, Wisconsin. It is also the site of the first Swiss cheese factory in Wisconsin. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1] Fridolin Streiff bought the homestead's land and started the farm in 1848.
America’s Black Holocaust Museum was founded in 1988 by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old. According to the museum’s executive ...
This list of museums in Wisconsin encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing ...