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Unity Chapel

Built in 1886 (Shingle style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Unity Chapel is located in the town of Wyoming in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”

Wikipedia article Unity Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Iowa County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1886, Shingle style architecture, by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of Spring Green off WI 23, Spring Green, 53588
  • When was it listed? July 1974
  • Category. building
  • Town. Wyoming town
  • When was it built? 1886
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • Architect. Joseph Lyman Silsbee, Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 74000092 - 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.

The ground it stands on

2,718 words

This property stands in Wyoming Town. History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...biographical Sketches.., published 1881 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 Wyoming Town - 2,718 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Unity Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1996Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAR LOOK FIRE
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2001Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Iowa 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 Unity Chapel: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spring Green Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iowa 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
Taliesin, Hillside Theater0.6 miles1973
Spring Green Restaurant0.7 miles2024
Taliesin House0.8 miles1973
Taliesin, Entry Bridge0.8 miles1973
Shot Tower1.4 miles1973
Wyoming Valley School2.9 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000092 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iowa CountyAll 30 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.