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May 11, 2018

The Miramar Drive Residential Historic District Listed in National Register of Historic Places

Allouez, Wis. - The Wisconsin Historical Society has announced the listing of the Miramar Drive Residential Historic District in Allouez, Brown County, in the National Register of Historic Places. National Register designation provides access to certain benefits, including qualification for grants and for rehabilitation income tax credits, while it does not restrict private property owners in the use of their property.

The Miramar Drive Residential Historic District contains one of Allouez’ finest concentrations of single-family homes constructed between 1920 and 1967.  The prevalence of architect-designed, Period Revival styles including Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, and later Ranch styles together constitute a well-defined and visually distinct architectural district.  The district, marked by two brick piers at the western entry to Miramar Drive, was also a commuter neighborhood of a rising upper-middle class in the Green Bay area.  Doctors, lawyers, businessmen, managers, and professional football players and coaches all owned houses in the district.  The plat of Miramar itself is stretched out, east-west, from the Fox River to Webster Avenue, a development pattern that helps define the character of the neighborhood.  Homeowners take pride in the architectural character of this district, and it, therefore, remains a popular residential neighborhood. 

The register is the official national list of historic properties in America deemed worthy of preservation and is maintained by the National Park Service in the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Wisconsin Historical Society administers the program within Wisconsin. It includes sites, buildings, structures, objects and districts that are significant in national, state or local history, architecture, archaeology, engineering or culture.

To learn more about the State and National Register programs in Wisconsin, visitwww.wisconsinhistory.org.

About Wisconsin Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society, founded in 1846, ranks as one of the largest, most active and most diversified state historical societies in the nation. As both a state agency and a private membership organization, its mission is to help people connect to the past by collecting, preserving and sharing stories. The Wisconsin Historical Society serves millions of people every year through a wide range of sites, programs and services. For more information, visit www.wisconsinhistory.org.

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