Property Record
1625 WILSON AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Wilson Elementary School |
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| Other Name: | Wilson Elementary School |
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| Reference Number: | 131421 |
| Location (Address): | 1625 WILSON AVE |
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| County: | Sheboygan |
| City: | Sheboygan |
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| Year Built: | 1959 |
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| Additions: | C. 1975 |
| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | school – elem/middle/jr high/high |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | arch: L.c. Senescall of Satre & Senescall; bldr: A. E. Nack Construction Co. |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Initially surveyed in 2004. The school opened in 1959 to grades k-8. It contained 22 classrooms, a gym, an auditorium, teacher work rooms, a health room, and music and speech therapy rooms. Initially, a wing of the school houses the Charles E. Broughton Branch of the Mead Public Library. The library was in service until 1974. Remodeling occurred in the mid-1970s and a three-room addition was constructed in 2002. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Lau, Donald, A History of the Sheboygan County Public Schools (Sheboygan, WI: Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, Inc., 2009), pgs. 281-283. LJM Architects, Inc., 2002-2004 City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin Architectural and Historical Intensive Survey Report. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |