Property Record
SE SHORE, SAND ISLAND, APOSTLE ISLANDS
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Camp Stella - Landscape |
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| Reference Number: | 229383 |
| 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: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1886 |
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| 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. Camp Stella typifies a recreational resort typology, with multiple outbuildings arranged around a central yard and at the edge of a bluff. The Camp Stella landscape features several objects. A fountain is in the yard in front of the Sevona Memorial Cottage. Decorative metal gas lampposts mark the former Camp Stella tenting area boundaries. One is next to the southeast corner of the dining room, and the other next to the Phipps Cottage. The lamppost next to the lodge also holds a mailbox. A windlass is located just west of the stairs leading down the bluff to the dock. It is log-framed and has a steel cable wrapped around a wood spool. Dry Gulch Bridge is a 40'-long, wood-plank bridge located between the lodge and the Phipps Cottage. A hanging wood sign next to the bridge reads “Dry Gulch Bridge Built in 1951; Resurfaced in 1972.” There are two smaller wood-plank bridges east of the Phipps Cottage. Character-defining features of the Camp Stella landscape include: • Open, dappled central lawn, framed on two sides with structures and on a third side with naturalized woods • Large grove of mature red and white pine at the bluff edge • Multiple small-scaled structures neatly arranged in linear pattern at bluff top • Steep slope with volunteer growth • Packed-earth pathway with rustic wood bridge • Remnant gardens and formal water feature |
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| Bibliographic References: | Peterson, Sherree. “Camp Stella: Meeting Place of Kindred Souls.” 1997. Report prepared for Eastern National Park and Monument Association. Survey fieldwork, May 28–30, 2014. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |