Dr. Alfred L. Castleman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Castleman, Dr. Alfred L., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 975 S. Waterville Rd., Summit, 53066
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. building
Village. Summit village
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96000730 - 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.

The ground it stands on

16,019 words

This property stands in Summit Village. The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Summit Village - 16,019 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1839
30 June 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1801911
9 April 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	157
4 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1800908
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	150
22 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1000111
10 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1800969
4 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1000074

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman House: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dousman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Evans Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Sawyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit Wolf Constr.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Silver Lake Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vulcan Dousman Pit 422	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Waukesha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Waukesha 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Statesan Historic District	2.4 miles	1988
Gustave Pabst Estate	2.5 miles	1989
Hawks Inn	3.0 miles	1972
Delafield Fish Hatchery	3.1 miles	1981
St. John's Military Academy	3.3 miles	1977
St. John Chrysostom Church	3.3 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000730 in Record Group 79.
Waukesha County	All 153 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.