Property Record
STATE HIGHWAY 182
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Springstead Post Office |
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| Other Name: | Building # 2 |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 31640 |
| Location (Address): | STATE HIGHWAY 182 |
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| County: | Iron |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Sherman |
| Unincorporated Community: | SPRINGSTEAD |
| Town: | 41 |
| Range: | 3 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 21 |
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| Year Built: | 1870 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1994 |
| Historic Use: | post office |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Log |
| Architect: | |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Springstead |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 4/17/1997 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 7/26/1996 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: |
| 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, Division of Historic Preservation. MOVED TO SPRINGSTEAD FROM EMERSON IN 1916. "This unique property, on the National Register of Historic Places, includes a rare French Canadian logger's cabin, one of few left from the pre-1900 era of pine logging by itinerant, independent loggers, who usually abandoned their homesteads when the lumber was gone. The main buildings on this property include a caretaker's cabin and a guide's cabin built by Randall Burns, a Chicago attorney who had a summer home nearby. Many wealthy summer home owners in the Northwoods hired local residents as caretakers -- for a relatively small fee and the use of a residence nearby, a summer home owner hoped that a caretaker would protect his or her property from fire, theft, and squatters. Other buildings on this site served as Springstead's post office and a general store." Iron County Heritage Area, Historic Touring Guide & Map to Iron County: Wisconsin's Vacation Paradise, not dated. |
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| Bibliographic References: | MINOCQUA LAKELAND TIMES 11/21/1995 and 4/10/1998. MINOCQUA LAKELAND TIMES 6/22/1996. IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE 10/17/1996. Hurley Iron County Miner 4/9/1998 and 6/25/1998. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/25/1998. Minocqua Lakeland Times 9/18/1998. Minocqua Lakeland Times 4/21/2000. Ironwood Daily Globe 4/13/2000. Park Falls Herald 3/2/2000, 10/3/1996, 3/12/1998, and 6/11/1998. Ironwood Daily Globe 3/23/2000. Park Falls Herald 3/16/2000. Park Falls Herald 2/17/2000. Ironwood Daily Globe 5/25/2000. Hurley Iron County Miner 7/31/2003. Phillips Bee 5/22/2003. Wisconsin State Journal 4/26/1998. Ashland Daily Press 4/30/1998. Iron County Heritage Area, Historic Touring Guide & Map to Iron County: Wisconsin's Vacation Paradise, not dated. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |