Downtown Baraboo Historic District

	Downtown Baraboo Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
Location	Roughly bounded by 5th & 2nd Aves., 5th, Ash, 1st, Oak & Birch Sts., Baraboo, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43°28′13″N 89°44′39″W / 43.47028°N 89.74417°W
Area	22 acres (8.9 ha)
NRHP reference No.	15000340
Added to NRHP	June 8, 2015

The Downtown Baraboo Historic District is a national historic district in downtown Baraboo, Wisconsin. The district encompasses 78 contributing buildings, most of which are commercial buildings centered around the Sauk County Courthouse square. Development in the district began in the 1840s; at the time, the courthouse district was considered the wealthy part of Baraboo by comparison to the more industrial areas by the Baraboo River and the railroad. The oldest contributing buildings in the district date to the 1870s, when economic growth in Baraboo and a series of fires that destroyed older buildings spurred extensive construction in the courthouse district. New buildings continued to be built in the district through the mid-twentieth century, with the latest contributing building being the 1966 Baraboo City Hall. The district includes examples of most popular architectural styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Neoclassical, Colonial Revival and other revival styles, Beaux-Arts, Prairie School, Modernist, and vernacular commercial styles.^[2]

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2015.^[1] Three buildings in the district are listed individually on the National Register: the Sauk County Courthouse, the Al. Ringling Theatre, and the Gust Brothers' Store.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places 2015 Weekly Lists" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
^ Lehrke, Jennifer L.; Davidson, Rowan (May 2, 2014). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Downtown Baraboo Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved May 15, 2023.

External links

Media related to Downtown Baraboo Historic District at Wikimedia Commons

This article about a property in Wisconsin on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[NPS-1] "National Register of Historic Places 2015 Weekly Lists" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved May 15, 2023.

[2] Lehrke, Jennifer L.; Davidson, Rowan (May 2, 2014). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Downtown Baraboo Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved May 15, 2023.

[1]

[2]

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types
Lists by state	List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands
Lists by associated state	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau
Other areas	District of Columbia American Legation, Morocco
Related	National Historic Preservation Act Historic Preservation Fund List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places portal Category