Property Record
8847 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Frey School (Roxbury District School No.2) |
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| Other Name: | Frey School |
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| Reference Number: | 5027 |
| Location (Address): | 8847 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Roxbury |
| Unincorporated Community: | ROXBURY |
| Town: | 9 |
| Range: | 7 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 21 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NW |
| Year Built: | 1874 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2002 |
| Historic Use: | school-one to six room |
| Architectural Style: | Early Gothic Revival |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Sandstone |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Frey School |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 7/14/2011 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 11/19/2010 |
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| 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-Public History. POINTED ARCHED DOORWAY. Coursed sandstone block main facade. Rear and side elevations are rubblestone construction. Highly intact. The first school on this site was a frame building built between 1855 and 1861. The current school was built between 1870 and 1881 according to Dane County Superintendent of Schools reports. First used as a district school, then, in 1934, was used as a classroom by the St. Norbert School until 1937, when the new expanded St. Norbert school was ready. Subsequently served as the Town of Roxbury Town Hall. |
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| Bibliographic References: | St. Norbert Parish: 1846-1971. St. Norbert Congregation, 1971, pp. 49-52. Dane Co. Wis.. Superintendent of Schools: Annual Reports of School Districts. 1870, 1874-1881. Jack Holzheuter says church built ca. 1874. Prepared by Landscape Research, Ltd. for the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, Dane County: A Guide to the Rural Landscape, 1978. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |