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Herbert F. Johnson House

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1936 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Wingspread is a conference center and house in Wind Point, Wisconsin, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it was built from 1938 to 1939 for the businessman Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., the president of S.C.”

Wikipedia article Wingspread, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Racine County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1936, Prairie School architecture, by Frank Lloyd Wright · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Johnson, Herbert F., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 33 E. Four Mile Rd., Wind Point, 53402
  • When was it listed? January 1975
  • Category. building
  • Village. Wind Point village
  • When was it built? 1936
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 75000076 - 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Herbert F. Johnson House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism1

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 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001426
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001423
10 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806005
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801102
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181719
31 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804703
2 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803754
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803086

Every fire recorded in Racine 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 Herbert F. Johnson House: 1 unknown. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Racine 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
Windpoint Light Station0.7 miles1984
Melvin Avenue Residential Historic District1.8 miles2011
KATE KELLY (Shipwreck)2.3 miles2007
Northside Historic District of Cream Brick Workers' Cottages2.4 miles1994
Karel Jonas House3.0 miles1982
No. 4 Engine House3.0 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000076 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Racine CountyAll 57 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.