For Immediate Release

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

May 17, 2019

Lake Mills, Wis. - The Wisconsin Historical Society has announced the listing of the Downtown Commercial Historic District in Lake Mills, Jefferson 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 district is significant for its exceptional collection of commercial buildings representing the historic commercial core of the community for over 100 years. The district has a large downtown park and a collection of Italianate, Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque Revival, Neo-Classical Revival, Twentieth Century Commercial styles, and Commercial Vernacular design.  These buildings have very good integrity help tell the story of commercial development as well as the development of popular architectural styles in the historic core of the downtown. 

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 wisconsinhistory.org.

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