Downtown Churches Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Downtown Churches Historic District is a historic district in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin consisting of four churches and five other buildings associated with the churches. The four churches which comprise the district are Grace Episcopal Church, built in the High Victorian Gothic style in 1871; First Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1929-30 in the Late Gothic style; Hope Reformed Church, built in 1937 in the Late Gothic style; and St.”
Wikipedia article Downtown Churches Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Generally bounded by Erie Ave., N. 6th St., Ontario Ave., and N. 7th St., Sheboygan, 53081
When was it listed? March 2010
Category. district
City. Sheboygan city
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000052 - 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Churches Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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	9
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3762
12 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3283
6 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1469
4 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1310
10 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1518
1 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1713
3 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1066
29 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1371

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this property

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheboygan, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 4 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1998	Flash Flood	Sheboygan	$40,000,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$40,000	no account filed
August 1998	Lightning	Sheboygan	$25,000	no account filed
July 2010	Flash Flood	Sheboygan	$20,000	A trained spotter reported 3 feet of water over South Business Drive between Riverdale Avenue and Stahl Road in the town of Wilson 5 miles south-southwest of Sheboygan. Another trained spotter reported street flooding on the south side of the city of Sheboygan near the intersection of Weeden Creek road and 10th Street. The flooding damaged the contents of flooded basements and washed out gravel shoulders of roads.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$10,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flood	Sheboygan	$10,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$6,000	Scattered tree limbs down in Sheboygan including on a large van. A few photos provided.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Sheboygan	$5,000	Street flooding on the south side of Sheboygan, including removed manhole covers from flooding sewers. Pictures of streets and yards flooded on the south side.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$5,000	A barn door was blown off and items were blown out of the barn.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$5,000	Winds from a severe thunderstorm lifted a 36 by 24 foot roof off from a warehouse in Sheboygan.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$4,000	no account filed
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$3,000	Power poles broken and 3 inch diameter branches down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$2,000	A large tree snapped off and landing on power lines.
May 2020	Flood	Sheboygan	$2,000	The Sheboygan River reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.07 feet the morning of May 18th. About 3 miles west of Sheboygan Airport, Woodland Road is flooded and closed between Rio Road and Willow Road due to the flooding of the Sheboygan River. Sections of Alpine Road and Meadowlark Road in the Sheboygan Falls area are flooded and closed. Floodwaters affect Kiwanis and Esslingen Parks in Sheboygan. Other roads and low lying areas are flooded in closed due to areal flooding from the several inches of rain that had fallen.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$2,000	no account filed
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Sheboygan	$1,000	Street flooding in Sheboygan especially on and near 14th street from Geele Ave. to Indiana Ave.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$1,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$1,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	$1,000	no account filed
July 1997	Lightning	Sheboygan	$500	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Sheboygan	-	Pictured provided of one inch hail.
May 2007	Hail	Sheboygan	-	Large hail the size of pennys to quarters covered the ground white just northwest of the city limits of Sheboygan. No damage was noted. As the storm eventually moved through the city of Sheboygan it dumped heavy rains of 0.81 inches in about 45 minutes. Water accumulated on some roads to a depth of 3 to 5 inches.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	-	Measured by the Fox TV-6 school network site at North High School.
April 2018	Hail	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
June 2006	Funnel Cloud	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
May 2004	Heavy Rain	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
November 2003	Heavy Rain	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
July 2003	Heavy Rain	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
July 2002	Flood	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flood	Sheboygan	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheboygan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Friendship House	under 500 feet	1974
Henry and Charles Imig Block	0.1 miles	1998
Sheboygan Theater	0.1 miles	1999
Thomas M. and Bridget Blackstock House	0.1 miles	1995
John Michael Kohler House	0.1 miles	1982
Eliza Prange House	0.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000052 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheboygan County	All 60 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.
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.