350 E FURNACE ST
Historic Name: | German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace |
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Reference Number: | 100007631 |
Location (Address): | 350 E FURNACE ST |
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County: | Grant |
City/Village: | Platteville |
Township: |
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace 350 East Furnace Street City of Platteville Grant County, WI The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace was constructed in 1856 utilizing stone blocks and hand-made bricks hauled by teams of oxen. German settlement in Platteville began in the 1820s as Germans traveled from Wisconsin’s earliest European settlements in Prairie du Chien and Green Bay to take part in the development of the region’s lead mines.
German Lutheran services were first established in Platteville in 1855 when a pair of German Lutheran pastors traveled through the village and noted its distinct lack of services for the community’s German Lutheran residents. The following year, members of the congregation donated funds, land and labor for the construction of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace. The building displays modest Gothic Revival detailing that includes a steeply-pitched roof; pointed-arch windows and belfry openings; heavy, curved wood mullions in the front tower window; and steeply-pitched gablets around the base of the spire. The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace is Platteville’s oldest extant church building and is still in use as such today (the building is now owned by Platteville’s Free Methodist congregation).
Although the building has undergone a number of interior remodeling efforts through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as the construction of a side wing in 1940 to accommodate an ever-growing congregation, these alterations have not diminished the building’s architectural distinction as one of Platteville’s best representatives of early Gothic Revival church design. |
Period of Significance: | 1856-1895 |
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Area of Significance: | Architecture |
Applicable Criteria: | Architecture/Engineering |
Historic Use: | Religion: Religious Facility |
Architectural Style: | Gothic Revival |
Architectural Style: | Mid 19th Century Revival |
Resource Type: | Building |
Historic Status: | Date Received/Pending Nomination |
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Historic Status: | Listed in the National Register |
Historic Status: | Listed in the State Register |
National Register Listing Date: | 04/25/2022 |
State Register Listing Date: | 08/20/2021 |
Number of Contributing Buildings: | 1 |
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Number of Contributing Sites: | 0 |
Number of Contributing Structures: | 0 |
Number of Contributing Objects: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Sites: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Structures: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Objects: | 0 |
National Register and State Register of Historic Places, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |