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Photograph of Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians
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Holy Hill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Basilica and National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians at the Holy Hill is a Roman Catholic Marian shrine in Hubertus, Wisconsin, United States, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the venerated title Help of Christians. The land and the shrine serves as a religious pilgrimage and attracts approximately 300,000 visitors each year.”

Wikipedia article Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 1525 Carmel Rd., Erin, 53033
  • When was it listed? March 1992
  • Category. district
  • Town. Erin town
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • Architect. Hermann J. Gaul
  • National Register reference number. 92000139 - 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

22 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Holy Hill between 2004 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 June 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20259
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources257
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18200
25 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20223
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18192
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18185
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018053

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Holy Hill: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schulties PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Messer-Mayer Mill3.8 miles2007
Schwartz Ballroom5.2 miles1998
Kissel's Wheelock Addition Historic District5.3 miles1988
Otto P. Kissel House5.5 miles1988
William L. Kissel House5.5 miles1988
Louis Kissel House5.5 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000139 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 30 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.