Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
“The Woodland Hotel is located in Owen, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.”
Wikipedia article Woodland Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Owen City in History of Clark County Wisconsin, published 1918 names Owen. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Owen is one of the newer villages in Clark County, but is one of the most thriving, and as the center of extensive logging operations being carried on in the counties to the north has wonderful possibilities of future development and prosperity. It is an important railroad junction point, as the Fairchild & Northeastern has its terminal here, and the "Soo" line extends in four different directions, Three or four hundred square miles of the richest farming country are tributary to the village, and it is noted as a shipping point for stock and farm produce, as well as for its lumbering interests.
Passage source: History of Clark County Wisconsin, published 1918.
There has been a steady and conservative growth, the demand for houses always exceeding the supply, although the company and private individuals have kept busy building ever since the town was started. The village has an electric light plant (operated by the J. S. Owen Lumber Company) and water works and a sewer system. Besides the sawmill and box factory, which employ about 300 men, there is a large pea canning factory, with a capacity of 30,000 cases, a potato warehouse and elevator and teed mill, four hotels, four general stores, a bakery, butcher shop, tailor shop, jewelry store, two hardware stores, three barber shops, a shoe store and harness shop, one moving picture theatre, a bottling works, a thriving bank and a newspaper, besides several saloons, and a local telephone. The Woodland Hotel, owned by the Owen Company, is probably one of the best hotels in Wisconsin for a town the size of Owen, being built of stone and brick, with twenty-four transient rooms and all modern equipment. A Commercial Club, officered by some of the leading citizens, is active in advancing the general interests of the community.
Passage source: History of Clark County Wisconsin, published 1918.
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 Owen City - 1,587 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Hotel between 2010 and 2020, burning about 16 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/undetermined | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018037 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018024 |
| 11 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020085 |
| 14 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodland Hotel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plautz Bros Inc Withee & Roder Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owen, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $30,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in and near Owen. One tree landed on a house and over 1,100 customers were without power after the storms moved through. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $7,500 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near Owen. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Owen | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Owen | $4,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $3,500 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Owen | $1,500 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $1,000 | A tree was blown down across a road in the vicinity of Owen. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $1,000 | Trees were blown down west of Curtiss along County Road P. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $1,000 | The fire department reported trees down in the city of Owen. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $1,000 | A newspaper article reported an old willow tree down in the city of Owen. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | $500 | A few trees and large branches were blown down in Owen that required a fire truck to be used to clear roadways. |
| October 2023 | Heavy Rain | Owen | - | A volunteer observer reported 4.02 inches of rainfall in Owen. |
| March 2016 | Heavy Rain | Owen | - | A total of 2.26 inches of rain fell near Owen. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Owen | - | Hail ranged in size from three-quarters of an inch to one inch in Owen. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| October 2012 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Owen | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owen | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Owen | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Owen High School | under 500 feet | 2004 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000240 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Clark County | All 22 listed properties in this county. |
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