BlockFrom the record
One of 85 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Augustin Grignon Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Grignon, Augustin, Hotel - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. SE corner of Main and Washington Sts., Butte des Morts, 54927
- When was it listed? April 1975
- Category. building
- Town. Winneconne town
- National Register reference number. 75000084 - 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
3,161 wordsThis property stands in Winneconne Town. History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Early History of the Northwest, 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 Winneconne Town - 3,161 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
10 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Augustin Grignon Hotel between 2003 and 2020, burning about 406 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202039 |
| 10 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 284 |
| 22 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018028 |
| 4 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | COUNTY H #1 |
| 12 May 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202018 |
| 20 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 160 |
| 29 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201812 |
| 18 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202053 |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Augustin Grignon Hotel: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broehm Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Doro Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Grundy Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sheppard Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Thomack Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte des Morts, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte Des Morts | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees near Butte des Morts. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Butte Des Morts | - | A brief tornado touchdown was witnessed by the Oshkosh Fire Department near Highway 45 near Butte des Morts. No damage was reported. |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Butte Des Morts | - | A storm chaser and the public spotted a tornado over Lake Butte des Morts near County S. The tornado dissipated before reaching shore. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Butte Des Morts | - | Penny size hail fell east of Butte Des Morts. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Cemetery | 5.7 miles | 2003 | |
 | Omro Village Hall and Engine House | 6.1 miles | 1997 |
| Omro Downtown Historic District | 6.2 miles | 1996 | |
| Paine Lumber Company Historic District | 6.3 miles | 1986 | |
 | Omro High School, Annex and Webster Manual Training School | 6.4 miles | 1985 |
 | Paine Art Center and Arboretum | 6.5 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75000084 in Record Group 79. |
| Winnebago County | All 85 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.