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Cupola House

Built in 1871 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Cupola House is a historic house located in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Cupola House (Egg Harbor, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1871, Italianate architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7836 Egg Harbor Rd., Egg Harbor, 54209
  • When was it listed? July 1979
  • Category. building
  • Village. Egg Harbor village
  • When was it built? 1871
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79000073 - 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cupola House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
17 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1844
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources44
7 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources61
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
30 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19
26 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources21
22 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources51
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cupola House: 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Door County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lautenbach QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Parent PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Walter Fischer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this property

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egg Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 waterspout. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Tornado (F3)Egg Harbor2 hurt, $4,740,000no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor$150,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted and snapped an area of trees a couple of miles either side of a west-east line from Frank E. Murphy Park to Jacksonport.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor$15,000Thunderstorm winds to 70 mph downed trees and knocked out power in the Egg Harbor area. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Egg Harbor. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 82 mph.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines on highway 42 from Egg Harbor to Fish Creek, making the road impassable. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Egg Harbor. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Egg Harbor.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Egg Harbor. There were also sporadic reports of trees and power lines down throughout Door County. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph uprooted about 10 trees east of Egg Harbor.
July 2012HailEgg Harbor-Penny size hail fell at Egg Harbor.
July 2012HailEgg Harbor-Quarter size hail fell at Egg Harbor.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Egg Harbor.
June 2008HailEgg Harbor-no account filed
June 2008HailEgg Harbor-no account filed
July 2007HailEgg Harbor-no account filed
July 2007HailEgg Harbor-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-no account filed
July 2006HailEgg Harbor-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-no account filed
May 2004HailEgg Harbor-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEgg Harbor-no account filed
July 1999HailEgg Harbor-no account filed
August 1998WaterspoutEgg Harbor-no account filed
September 1996HailEgg Harbor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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
Murphy Farms Number 13.2 miles2012
Freeman and Jesse Thorp House and Cottages5.5 miles1997
Church of the Atonement5.5 miles1985
Vorous General Store5.5 miles1997
Alexander Noble House5.5 miles1996
Welcker's Resort Historic District5.5 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000073 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Door CountyAll 68 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.