National or State Registers Record
Lincoln St. between Beaver Dam and Mason Sts.
National or State Register of Historic Places
| Historic Name: | Central State Hospital Historic District |
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| Reference Number: | 91001395 |
| Location (Address): | Lincoln St. between Beaver Dam and Mason Sts. |
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| County: | Dodge |
| City/Village: | Waupun |
| Township: |
| Designed in 1913 and intended exclusively for the "criminally and violently insane,: this large red brick building has a long main corridor and six perpendicular wings abutting both sides of the corridor. The site, located on Lincoln Street on the south side of Waupun, which includes four other structures, became the Dodge County Correctional Facility in 1983 and no longer functions as a hospital. |
| Period of Significance: | 1913-1941 |
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| Area of Significance: | Health/Medicine |
| Applicable Criteria: | Event |
| Historic Use: | Health Care: Hospital |
| Architectural Style: | Prairie School |
| Resource Type: | District |
| Architect: | Foeller & Schober |
| Historic Status: | Listed in the National Register |
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| Historic Status: | Listed in the State Register |
| National Register Listing Date: | 09/13/1991 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 04/19/1991 |
| Number of Contributing Buildings: | 4 |
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| Number of Contributing Sites: | 0 |
| Number of Contributing Structures: | 1 |
| Number of Contributing Objects: | 0 |
| Number of Non-Contributing Sites: | 0 |
| Number of Non-Contributing Structures: | 1 |
| Number of Non-Contributing Objects: | 0 |
| National Register and State Register of Historic Places, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |