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Photograph of Henry Store Foeste Building
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Foeste, Henry Store, Building

Built in 1892 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Henry Store Foeste Building is a two-story, classical revival style commercial building located at 522 South Eighth Street in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It was designed by prominent Wisconsin-based architect William C.”

Wikipedia article Henry Store Foeste Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1892, Neoclassical architecture, by William C. Weeks.

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. 522 S. Eighth St., Sheboygan, 53081
  • When was it listed? September 1995
  • Category. building
  • City. Sheboygan city
  • When was it built? 1892
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • Architect. William C. Weeks
  • National Register reference number. 95001063 - 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Foeste, Henry Store, Building between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3762
12 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3283
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1469
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1310
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1518
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1713
3 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1066
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1371

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this property

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheboygan, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 4 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Flash FloodSheboygan$40,000,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$40,000no account filed
August 1998LightningSheboygan$25,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodSheboygan$20,000A trained spotter reported 3 feet of water over South Business Drive between Riverdale Avenue and Stahl Road in the town of Wilson 5 miles south-southwest of Sheboygan. Another trained spotter reported street flooding on the south side of the city of Sheboygan near the intersection of Weeden Creek road and 10th Street. The flooding damaged the contents of flooded basements and washed out gravel shoulders of roads.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$10,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSheboygan$10,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$6,000Scattered tree limbs down in Sheboygan including on a large van. A few photos provided.
August 2024Flash FloodSheboygan$5,000Street flooding on the south side of Sheboygan, including removed manhole covers from flooding sewers. Pictures of streets and yards flooded on the south side.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$5,000A barn door was blown off and items were blown out of the barn.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$5,000Winds from a severe thunderstorm lifted a 36 by 24 foot roof off from a warehouse in Sheboygan.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$4,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$3,000Power poles broken and 3 inch diameter branches down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$2,000A large tree snapped off and landing on power lines.
May 2020FloodSheboygan$2,000The Sheboygan River reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.07 feet the morning of May 18th. About 3 miles west of Sheboygan Airport, Woodland Road is flooded and closed between Rio Road and Willow Road due to the flooding of the Sheboygan River. Sections of Alpine Road and Meadowlark Road in the Sheboygan Falls area are flooded and closed. Floodwaters affect Kiwanis and Esslingen Parks in Sheboygan. Other roads and low lying areas are flooded in closed due to areal flooding from the several inches of rain that had fallen.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$2,000no account filed
September 2018Heavy RainSheboygan$1,000Street flooding in Sheboygan especially on and near 14th street from Geele Ave. to Indiana Ave.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$1,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$1,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$1,000no account filed
July 1997LightningSheboygan$500no account filed
March 2026HailSheboygan-Pictured provided of one inch hail.
May 2007HailSheboygan-Large hail the size of pennys to quarters covered the ground white just northwest of the city limits of Sheboygan. No damage was noted. As the storm eventually moved through the city of Sheboygan it dumped heavy rains of 0.81 inches in about 45 minutes. Water accumulated on some roads to a depth of 3 to 5 inches.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindSheboygan-Measured by the Fox TV-6 school network site at North High School.
April 2018HailSheboygan-no account filed
March 2017HailSheboygan-no account filed
July 2014HailSheboygan-no account filed
May 2014HailSheboygan-no account filed
June 2006Funnel CloudSheboygan-no account filed
May 2004Heavy RainSheboygan-no account filed
November 2003Heavy RainSheboygan-no account filed
July 2003Heavy RainSheboygan-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindSheboygan-no account filed
April 2002HailSheboygan-no account filed
July 2002FloodSheboygan-no account filed
May 2001HailSheboygan-no account filed
August 2001FloodSheboygan-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSheboygan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factoryunder 500 feet1992
John Balzer Wagon Works Complexunder 500 feet1993
Jung Shoe Manufacturing Company Factoryunder 500 feet1992
Jung Carriage Factoryunder 500 feet1974
Sheboygan Post Office0.1 miles2000
Sheboygan Press, The0.2 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001063 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheboygan CountyAll 60 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.
  • 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.