Property Record
2640 S WEBSTER AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | FIRST COURT HOUSE IN WISCONSIN MONUMENT |
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| Other Name: | HERITAGE HILL COURTHOUSE MONUMENT (DNR) |
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| Reference Number: | 223753 |
| Location (Address): | 2640 S WEBSTER AVE |
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| County: | Brown |
| City: | Allouez |
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| Year Built: | 1934 |
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| Survey Date: | 2012 |
| Historic Use: | monument |
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| Structural System: | Stone |
| Wall Material: | Cut Stone |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' 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, State Historic Preservation Office. In 1824, John Lawe was made Chief Justice and Judge of Probate under Judge James Duane Doty for the Michigan Territory overseeing present-day Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. For this post, Lawe was assigned to relocate to the relatively unsettled frontier that was the Green Bay area at that time. He arrived that year in what was then referred to as Shantytown, where Doty established the first territorial courthouse in the State of Wisconsin, making Shantytown the first county seat of Brown County. Inmates of the Green Bay Reformatory constructed the Court House Monument in 1934, signifying the site of the first Court House of 1870. The former site of the first courthouse is part of the property of Heritage Hill State Historical Park, established in 1976. An 1870 granary was relocated from Door County that year and sited in the park’s Fur Trade Area near the Court House Monument to represent the first courthouse in Wisconsin. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “Fur Trade.” Heritage Hill State Historical Park website. <http://www.heritagehillgb.org/> May 22, 2013. Haeger, John. “Men and Money: The Urban Frontier at Green Bay 1815-1840.” The 1970 Rolland Maybee Award Essay. Clarke Historical Library Central Michigan University. 1970; and James Duane Doty.” Wisconsin Historical Society: Topics in Wisconsin History. Wisconsin Historical Society. Feb. 14, 2013. “James Duane Doty.” Wisconsin Historical Society: Topics in Wisconsin History. Wisconsin Historical Society. Feb. 14, 2013. Wittig, Dorothy Straubel. “In the Beginning…” Allouez Centennial Celebration, page 6 & 7. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |