For Immediate Release

Contact: Kara O’Keeffe
608-261-9596
kara.okeeffe@wisconsinhistory.org

December 17, 2018

The Samuel and Nina Marcus House Listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Spring Green, Wis. - The Wisconsin Historical Society has announced the listing of the Samuel and Nina Marcus House in Spring Green, Sauk 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.

Sam and Nina Marcus moved to Spring Green in about 1918 to manage the H. Marcus & Sons department store, part of a small chain of department stores owned by the Marcus family.  As the store prospered, Sam and Nina decided to have a home built for them and hired Chicago architect Morton L. Pereira to design the house.  Sam and Nina had spent time in California where they had become familiar with the California Bungalow style, which influenced their interest in having a Craftsman style house.  The house has characteristic features of the Craftsman style including stucco walls, a sweeping gabled roof with integral porch, bands of casement windows, and wide, open eaves showing exposed rafters with carved ends. The Craftsman style of architecture is not one commonly seen in Spring Green which contributes to this homes distinction in the community.

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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