Photograph of Red Brick School — Photograph by James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Oregon High School

Built in 1923 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Red Brick School is a public school built in 1922 on the north edge of downtown Oregon, Wisconsin, United States. In 1998 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Red Brick School (Oregon, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1923, Gothic Revival.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 220 N. Main St., Village of Oregon, 53575
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. building
Village. Oregon village
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 98000406 - 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

13,699 words

This property stands in Oregon Village. History of Dane County, Wisconsin ... 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 Oregon Village - 13,699 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

11 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Oregon High School between 2014 and 2020, burning about 11 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2

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
7 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1289
5 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	98
22 April 2018	Smoking	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18418
18 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Leopold Wetland Management District	SCHULTZ WF
12 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	43
11 April 2018	Smoking	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18389
10 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	94
1 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18335

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Oregon High School: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Reindahl Quarry	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Dane 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
First National Bank	0.1 miles	2007
South Main Street Historic District	0.2 miles	2000
Oregon Water Tower and Pump House	0.2 miles	2007
Oregon Masonic Lodge	0.2 miles	1992
John and Flora Gilbert House	0.2 miles	2007
Lincoln Street Historic District	0.3 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000406 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.