Owen and Margaret Oliver House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Oliver, Owen and Margaret, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W 314 S 3986 SHWY 83, Town of Genesee, 53189
When was it listed? January 2011
Category. building
Town. Genesee town
National Register reference number. 10001182 - 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Genesee town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 - Genesee Town

Town Of Mukwonaco

WILiIilAM ADDENBROORE, farmer. Sec. 9; P. 0. North Prairie; born 1832, in Staffordshire, Eng. ; is a son of Hy. and Harriett (Johnson) Addenbrook, who are now residents of Liverpool, Eng. ; Mr. A. studied in the schools of his native land, taking a medical course at the Birmingham Hospital; he practiced medicine on the ocean packet-ships, and in the American and English seaports, until 1852, when he came to Wisconsin and bought his present farm of 120 acres; was for nine years in the grain and mercantile business at North Prairie, selling his store and elevator, in 1875 ; has since devoted himself to his farm and apiary ; his first swarm was captured in the woods about twenty years ago ; was for a time in partnership with George Grimm, whose father, Adam G., of Jefferson, Wis., was the most successful apiarian on the continent, and first introduced the Italian bees ; the partnership was dissolved in 1879, Mr.

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The ground it stands on

50,052 words

This property stands in Genesee Town. The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Genesee Town - 50,052 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Owen and Margaret Oliver House between 2008 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2

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
25 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	518
7 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	129
30 May 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19128
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	150
27 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	202
23 April 2008	Arson/incendiarism	38 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	192
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	120

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Owen and Margaret Oliver House: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Genesee Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Perrens Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Bishop Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dousman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Evans Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Genesee Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit Wolf Constr.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vulcan Dousman Pit 422	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Waukesha 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
Genesee Town Hall	0.4 miles	1981
Ten Chimneys	0.5 miles	2003
Ten Chimneys	0.5 miles	1998
Genesee Woolen Mill Site	0.8 miles	2017
William Johnston Lime Kiln	2.7 miles	1982
J. C. Booth House	2.9 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10001182 in Record Group 79.
Waukesha County	All 153 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.