Built in 1852 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Painesville Chapel is a historic meeting hall built in 1852 by German immigrant Freethinkers in Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Painesville Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1852, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.77000039- 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
17 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Painesville Chapel
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Smoking
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Debris and open burning
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Painesville Chapel: 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Franklin, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood, 1 flood.
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.
The Root River Parkway and nearby roads and intersections were closed due to the flash flooding of the Root River. A vehicle became disabled in the floodwaters. In addition to street flooding, yards, basements, and garages flooded especially in Franklin. Multiple reports of standing water on the freeway system and side streets throughout much of the county.
Heavy downpours of rain, associated with a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that crossed southern Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening hours of June 21st, dropped between 1.5 inches and 2 inches of rain over a 1 hour to a 1 1/2 hour time period. The heavy rain caused flash flooding that covered some roads with 1 to 2 feet of water. One lane of Highway 100 in Franklin was closed due to the high water, with a vehicle stalled in water on National Avenue and the Root River Parkway in West Allis.
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.
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.
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