Property Record
ROCKY ISLAND (APOSTLE ISLANDS)
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Benson Fish Camp - Mildred's Cabin |
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| Other Name: | |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 225259 |
| Location (Address): | ROCKY ISLAND (APOSTLE ISLANDS) |
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| County: | Ashland |
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| Township/Village: | La Pointe |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 53 |
| Range: | 2 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 19 |
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| Year Built: | 1935 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2008 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Rocky Island Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/3/2008 |
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| Additional Information: | Fish camp operated by Charlie Benson from 1936 until 1942. Benson initally took up residence in a cabin built in the 1920s by the Bayfield Fish Company (contributing). The year following his arrival to Rocky Island, Benson build the main family cabin (contributing). He also built a small fish house with an attached lean-to sauna (contributing). Another cabin was built in the mid-1930s as a hired-man's quarters (contributing). In the 1940s, Charlie's son Fred Benson built a wood frame summer cottage (contributing). Also in the camp: three privies (one contributing, two non-contributing), a dock (contributing), and three wooden skiffs (all contributing). |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |