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Photograph of Henni Hall
Photograph by Benjamin Chartier, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Henni Hall

Built in 1855 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1855, Italianate architecture, by Victor Schulte.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3257 S. Lake Dr., St. Francis, 53235
  • When was it listed? July 1974
  • Category. building
  • City. St. Francis city
  • When was it built? 1855
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • Architect. Victor Schulte
  • National Register reference number. 74000103 - 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Henni Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 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/undetermined10
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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
5 August 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1383
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001474
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1343
24 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1762641
3 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000944
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1734269
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources764
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1127

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Henni Hall: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Dcs MillIronPlant

Every working recorded in Milwaukee 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
Cudahy Chicago and North Western Railway Depot1.6 miles2013
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company Saloon1.7 miles1977
Dover Street School and Social Center1.8 miles2016
Holy Family Roman Catholic Church Complex2.4 miles2021
Milwaukee Fire Department High Pressure Pumping Station2.6 miles1981
Bay View Historic District2.6 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000103 in Record Group 79.
Milwaukee CountyAll 300 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.