J. Leslie Sensenbrenner House

Built in 1932 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Leslie Sensenbrenner House is a 19th and 20th Century Revival home in Neenah, Wisconsin. It was designed by Thomas Van Alyea and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin on September 2, 2003.”
Wikipedia article J. Leslie Sensenbrenner House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 85 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1932, Colonial Revival architecture, by Thomas Van Alyea.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sensenbrenner, J. Leslie, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 256 N. Park Ave., Nennah, 54956
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. building
City. Neenah city
When was it built? 1932
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. Thomas Van Alyea
National Register reference number. 03000897 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of J. Leslie Sensenbrenner House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	106
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	112
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1711
3 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1386
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	96
12 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1485
19 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1260
13 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1218

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of J. Leslie Sensenbrenner House: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Deitz Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Badger Highway Menasha Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Curtiss Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Jorgenson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Schultz Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Edward D. & Vina Shattuck Beals House	0.1 miles	2008
Grand Loggery	0.2 miles	1974
Kimberly Point Park Lighthouse	0.2 miles	2013
Charles R. Smith House	0.2 miles	1979
Isabel and Orrin Johnson House	0.2 miles	2024
Henry Spencer Smith House	0.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000897 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winnebago County	All 85 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.