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Solomon and Josette Juneau House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Listed as. Juneau, Solomon and Josette, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 201 South Milwaukee St. (WI 175), Theresa, 53091
  • When was it listed? August 2024
  • Category. building
  • Village. Theresa village
  • National Register reference number. 100005282 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

1,085 words

The chapter on Theresa Village in The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 names Theresa. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

P. lilTECHElVBERG, merchant and Postmaster, Theresa ; born in Prussia in 1S44 ; came with his parents to America in 184S, locating at Richfield, Wis., where he attended school until he was 14, when he entered a store at Germantown, Wis., to learn the business he has since successfully followed; he came to Theresa in 1861, with just 70 cents; worked in a store here until August, 1875, when he began business for himself; now has a large and varied stock of merchandise to supply a general trade ; one department of his store is filled with hardware, stoves, machines, etc.; another with hats, caps and ready-made clothing ; the main store is devoted to groceries of all kinds, dry goods, millinery goods, boots ,and shoes, glassware, etc., etc. He married Miss Amanda A. Sprout June 6, 186(3 ; they have two children - Frederick William and Guy Paul. iMr. Kueckenber^;- is a Repubhcan ; was appointed Postmaster about 1873.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

EMILE EDWARD NUSSLE, M. !>., Theresa; born in Chaux deFonds, Switzerland, July 12, 1853 ; spent his early life and was educated in his native land ; studied medicine in Geneva and Berne, graduating as physician and surgeon March 17, 1874; practiced one year in Dresden, Saxony, and came toAmerica in November, 1876, locating in Joffer.son, Jefferson Co., Wis.; he practiced two and a half years ; the Doctor settled in Theresa in February, 1871), where he has a good and increasing practice. He served as First Lieutenant in the Swiss Army about four years. The Doctor is versed in German, Italian and Enulish, as well as French, his native language; is independent of all societies.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Theresa Village - 1,085 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

12 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Solomon and Josette Juneau House between 2012 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1901093
30 May 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHERESA SITE 1
30 May 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHERESA SITE 2
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000023
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800020
20 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources83
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801034
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800017

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Solomon and Josette Juneau House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Farmersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Merget PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this property

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Theresa, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Theresa$10,000Damage began northeast of the roundabout for Highway 28 and 175 which is separate from the Mayville tornado. Damage was mainly to trees along this path that crossed Interstate 41.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTheresa$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindTheresa$1,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindTheresa$1,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTheresa-Trees down.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindTheresa-Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Theresa-A brief, weak tornado spun up east-southeast of Theresa, in a marsh east of West Bend Rd., resulting in only minor vegetative damage.
May 2025HailTheresa-no account filed
May 2025HailTheresa-no account filed
June 2024HailTheresa-no account filed
August 2017HailTheresa-no account filed
August 2015HailTheresa-no account filed
April 2007HailTheresa-no account filed
March 2000Funnel CloudTheresa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Widmer' s Cheese Cellars0.1 miles2025
Hollenstein Wagon and Carriage Factory4.8 miles1979
Beaumont Hotel4.9 miles1988
Main Street Historic District4.9 miles1995
White Limestone School4.9 miles1976
W. H. Boller Meat Market and Residence5.2 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005282 in Record Group 79.
Dodge CountyAll 36 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.