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Photograph of Joint Brussels and Garner District School Number One
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Joint Brussels and Garner Dristrict School Number One

Built in 1910 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1910, Neoclassical architecture.

Sources: 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 8571 State Trunk Highway 57, Brussels, 54235
  • When was it listed? May 2004
  • Category. building
  • Town. Brussels town
  • When was it built? 1910
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04000408 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Joint Brussels and Garner Dristrict School Number One between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources39
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources17
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
15 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
8 January 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Joint Brussels and Garner Dristrict School Number One: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Simons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crossroads Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Door Quarry SouthStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Little Hill Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Old Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reiner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brussels, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBrussels$3,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBrussels-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the town of Gardner. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBrussels-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Brussels. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBrussels-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Brussels. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
July 2007HailBrussels-A thunderstorm that dropped nickel size hail also produced strong straight-line winds and knocked out power to a campground near Brussels.
April 2003HailBrussels-no account filed
May 2002HailBrussels-no account filed
July 2000HailBrussels-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBrussels-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBrussels-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBrussels-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Louis Vangindertahlen House1.9 miles2004
Joseph Monfils Farmstead2.1 miles2004
J.B. Bouche House4.0 miles2004
Joachine J. Falque House4.5 miles2004
Namur Belgian-American District5.9 miles1989
August Draize Farmstead6.1 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000408 in Record Group 79.
Door CountyAll 68 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.