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Photograph of Greendale Historic District
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Greendale Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1935 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Greendale Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the historic core of the village of Greendale, Wisconsin. The village core was designed in the 1930s as part of a New Deal program to establish so-called "greenbelt towns" as model suburbs, and is one of three such communities built by the federal government.”

Wikipedia article Greendale Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2005 · category: District · built in 1935, Colonial Revival architecture · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. Roughly bounded by W. Grange Ave. and Catalpa St., Greendale, 53129
  • When was it listed? July 2005
  • Category. district
  • Village. Greendale village
  • When was it built? 1935
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 05000763 - 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Greendale Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2020Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1778160
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203500
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2614
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806123
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806080
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202979
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182913
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1805394

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee 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 Greendale Historic District: 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Jack S Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Franklin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lippman Plant # 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this property

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greendale, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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
June 2018LightningGreendale$3,000A lightning strike left a hole in the roof of a home.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGreendale$2,000Several large trees down.
August 2015HailGreendale-Large hail with 30 to 35 mph wind gusts.
May 2025HailGreendale-no account filed
May 2024HailGreendale-no account filed
May 2024HailGreendale-no account filed
April 2023HailGreendale-no account filed
April 2023HailGreendale-no account filed
August 2015HailGreendale-no account filed
May 2004Heavy RainGreendale-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGreendale-no account filed
June 2002HailGreendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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
Jeremiah Curtin House1.3 miles1972
Trimborn Farm1.4 miles1980
Root River Parkway1.6 miles2013
W. Ben Hunt Cabin3.2 miles2008
Kinnickinnic River Parkway4.2 miles2011
TOPS Club Inc4.3 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000763 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Milwaukee CountyAll 300 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.