Property Record
SE SHORE, SAND ISLAND, APOSTLE ISLANDS
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Shaw-Hill Farm - Landscape |
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| Reference Number: | 229371 |
| Location (Address): | SE SHORE, SAND ISLAND, APOSTLE ISLANDS |
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| County: | Bayfield |
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| Township/Village: | Bayfield |
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| Town: | 52 |
| Range: | 5 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 25 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SE |
| Year Built: | 1870 |
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| Additions: | C. 1910 |
| Survey Date: | 2014 |
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| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Three distinct cultural landscape typologies are found on Sand Island’s southern shore at the Shaw-Hill farm, Camp Stella, and the Campbell-Jensch property. The typologies are related to the each site’s historic land use. The Shaw-Hill farm represents a commercial/agricultural typology, with multiple outbuildings constructed on the base of a steep bank along a sandy beach. Additionally, a farmstead on the top of the bluff was constructed as a typical Midwestern agrarian homestead with a functioning landscape. The Shaw-Hill landscape features several objects, including three wood-plank bridges, five wood tent platforms, a wood-framed playhouse, and a wood-framed treehouse. There are ruins of a wood smokehouse near the tractor shed. A free-standing wood gate is southeast of the tractor shed. A wood-plank walkway runs between the Shaw-Hill House and its outhouse. A wood flagpole is in the yard southeast of the Shaw-Hill House, near wood stairs that run from the top of the yard at the Shaw-Hill House to the yard between the granary and the post office. Another set of wood stairs is west of the sauna. There are ruins of a wood dock in front of the sauna. A decorative gas lamppost is on the riprap at the southeast tip of the shoreline. A steel winch topped with wood planks is near the dock. Character-defining features of the Shaw-Hill landscape include: • Planted coniferous groves and linear wind rows • Small (originally commercial-use) structures aligned with bottom of bluff edge • Farmstead buildings arranged with house closest to the lake, support buildings inland around farmyard • Forest clearings for pasture and fields • Orchard remnant • Mown grass pathway connections • Neatly mown turf in outdoor use areas • Sandy beach with crib dock and boulder spit |
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| Bibliographic References: | Survey fieldwork, May 28–30, 2014. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |