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Photograph of Ward Memorial Hall
Photograph by Freekee, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ward Memorial Hall

Built in 1881. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Ward Memorial Hall is an 1880s theater building within the Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is part of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home complex, designated Building No. 41, on the present day Clement J.”

Wikipedia article Ward Memorial Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1881, by Henry C. Koch.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5000 W. National Ave., Wood, 53214
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • City. Milwaukee city
  • When was it built? 1881
  • Architect. Henry C. Koch
  • National Register reference number. 84003748 - 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

31 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Ward Memorial Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning8
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767699
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806123
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806080
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806070
1 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803975
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005439
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202979

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee 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 Ward Memorial Hall: 3 unknowns, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Iron. 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
Dcs MillIronPlant
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee 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
Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Chapel0.1 miles2005
Soldiers' Home Reef0.2 miles1993
Kegel's Inn0.7 miles2010
Coakley Brothers Warehouse1.1 miles2018
Edward J. Dahinden House1.4 miles1986
H. R. Davis House1.5 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003748 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Milwaukee CountyAll 300 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.