Property Record
1901 ALGOMA BLVD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Riverside Cemetery Chapel |
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| Other Name: | Riverside Cemetery Chapel |
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| Reference Number: | 62705 |
| Location (Address): | 1901 ALGOMA BLVD |
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| County: | Winnebago |
| City: | Oshkosh |
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| Year Built: | 1921 |
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| Survey Date: | 2001 |
| Historic Use: | house of worship |
| Architectural Style: | Romanesque Revival |
| Structural System: | Masonry |
| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | Julius Dreger |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Riverside Cemetery |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 6/26/2003 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 4/11/2003 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' (Riverside Cemetery) exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History April 2001-The Riverside Cemetery Chapel is a one-story, front-gabled, Romanesque Revival building finished with beige, rock-faced, limestone laid in random ashlar. The Chapel features shouldered, parapeted gables, a tile roof, stone buttresses, belt-courses and moldings, and round-arched openings with stone voussoirs. The front faces east, overlooking STH 110 (Algoma Blvd). On the front, a cut-away porte-cochere appears. In the gable end above, the Chapel is embellished with a stone tablet reading: CHAPEL. Toward the rear of the building, two small, one-story, flat-roofed sections flank the chapel and house the office and restroom. The Riverside Cemetery Chapel was designed by Oshkosh architect Julius Dreger and completed in 1921. The interior features paintings by Gustav Behncke, noted local artist. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Blueprints - in cemetery office. (B) Obituary of Gustave Behncke. Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, Jan. 21, 1937. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |