Built in 1904 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“The Antigo Opera House is a historic opera house and concert hall in Antigo, Wisconsin, United States. The brick building was built in 1904 by architect J.H.”
Wikipedia article Antigo Opera House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Langlade County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1904, Neoclassical architecture.
National Register reference number.84003699- 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.
Regarding the founding of the city of Antigo, Mr. Deleglise said: "As early as 1857, I believed that there were openings in this neighborhood for several prosperous settlements. Looking over the map of Wisconsin, I came to the conclusion that the valley of the upper Embarrass river and of the upper Eau Claire river would afford sites for at least two central commercial points, one to be located in the Embarrass country and the other in the Eau Claire river country."
After considerable deliberation, while at Appleton, in the summer of 1876, Mr. Deleglise mapped out the present plan of the city of Antigo and determined upon its location as the point for the upper Eau Claire river valley. Most of the land was entered in the name of his wife, Mary Deleglise, in the fall of 1877, with $300 received from her parents. Entry was made upon a contract with the state. "We paid about $16 per forty acres down," said Mr. Deleglise.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Antigo Opera House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning
24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Equipment and vehicle use
17
Arson/incendiarism
12
Recreation and ceremony
8
Other causes
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
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
25 workings within 5 miles of Antigo Opera House: 11 past producers, 8 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 unknowns.
4 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Antigo, the town this property stands in, in 59 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 42 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 lightning, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Widely scattered severe thunderstorms produced a funnel cloud and damaging winds over central Wisconsin. A small tornado moved a garage off its foundation and wrecked a house roof and shed three miles northwest of Elderon (Marathon County). A second small tornado destroyed a garage and toppled trees three miles southeast of Aniwa (Shawano County). Thunderstorm wind damage was confined to trees and power lines.
Straight-line thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and branches and damaged a heavy duty irrigation system north of Antigo. Some business signs were also blown down in Antigo near the intersection of Highway 45 and Highway 64.
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
4 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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