Property Record
SE SHORE, SAND ISLAND, APOSTLE ISLANDS
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Shaw-Hill Farm - Log House |
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| Other Name: | Shaw-Hill Kitchen and Dining Room |
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| Reference Number: | 12626 |
| Location (Address): | SE SHORE, SAND ISLAND, APOSTLE ISLANDS |
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| County: | Bayfield |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Bayfield |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 52 |
| Range: | 5 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 25 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SE |
| Year Built: | 1871 |
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| Additions: | 1946 |
| Survey Date: | 1975 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Log |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Shaw Farm |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 6/18/1976 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Shaw Point Historic District |
| National Register Listing Date: | 7/27/2020 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 11/22/2019 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' (Shaw Farms) 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. A 'site file' exists for this property under the name "Shaw Point Historic District." 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. 1 OF A GROUP OF FIVE BLDGS BUILT BETWEEN 1870 AND 1900 SEE NRHP NOMIATION FORM FO R COMPLETE DESCRIPTION AND STATEMENT SQUARED DOVETAILED LOGS W/ CHINKING GREATLY ALTERED SEE R#1100,12624-12627 FOR RELATED BLDGS The Shaw-Hill House is a log house that was constructed by Frank Shaw around 1870. It originally consisted of just the log portion and a perpendicular kitchen addition (non-extant) on the north wall. Burt Hill, Shaw’s son-in-law, bought the property in 1910. Hill’s diary notes that he added a vestibule off of the kitchen in 1932. A dining room addition (extant) was constructed on the south wall of the house in 1946, two years after Hill sold the property to Fred Andersen. Today, the kitchen addition is gone and an open porch is in its place. |
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| Bibliographic References: | [A] SEE NRHP NOMINATION FORM Alanen, Arnold R. “The Shaw-Hill Farm Site On Sand Island (Apostle Islands National Lakeshore): Biographical and Site-Related Information.” June 1990. Report prepared by the Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Natural Resources, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin. Parnes, Herschel, L. D. “Shaw Farm.” National Register of Historic Places nomination. August 5, 1975. Snyder, Dave. “Sketch Map of Sand Island’s Shaw Point, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1994, not to scale.” Apostle Islands National Lakeshore archives, Bayfield, Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |