New Glarus Public School and High School

Built in 1896 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The New Glarus Public School and High School building is located in New Glarus, Wisconsin.”
Wikipedia article New Glarus Public School and High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Green County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1896, Art Deco architecture.

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. 413 Sixth Ave., New Clarus, 53574
When was it listed? March 1998
Category. building
Town. New Glarus town
When was it built? 1896
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture, Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98000284 - 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

17,620 words

This property stands in New Glarus Town. History of Green County, Wisconsin, published 1877; History of Green County, Wisconsin, published 1884 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 New Glarus Town - 17,620 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of New Glarus Public School and High School between 2018 and 2020, burning about 47 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
Debris and open burning	16
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2006597
5 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19198
5 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3387
8 April 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1904463
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3368
5 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2006575
29 April 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806350
29 April 2018	Smoking	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806351

Every fire recorded in Green County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of New Glarus Public School and High School: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Zweefel Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Freitag Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hoesley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hustad Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
P.W. Ryan Sons, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Green 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
Dr. Samuel Blumer House	0.2 miles	1992
2nd Street Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	2021
New Glarus Hotel	0.2 miles	2025
Chalet of the Golden Fleece	0.2 miles	2015
New Glarus Town Hall	0.3 miles	2008
Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad Depot	0.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Green County	All 31 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.