Prairie Spring Hotel

Built in 1834 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Prairie Spring Hotel, also known as the Daniel Morgan Parkinson House, was built in 1834 with Greek Revival elements. The structure is located in Lafayette County outside Willow Springs, Wisconsin It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Prairie Spring Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Lafayette County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1834, Greek Revival 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. WI 23 S, Willow Springs, 53565
When was it listed? October 1999
Category. building
Town. Willow Springs town
When was it built? 1834
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 99001273 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Spring Hotel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
21 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19031
30 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	9004771
26 March 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	9004508
22 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	4677
14 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	4107
2 November 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20060

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 96 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 96 workings within 5 miles of Prairie Spring Hotel: 76 past producers, 12 unknowns, 6 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Graysville Mine	Copper, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Stratiform
Grayville Mine	Zinc, Copper, Lead, Nickel	Past Producer
Jones Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Harris Mine	Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	1908
Hewitt Prospect	Lead, Copper, Zinc	Prospect
Calvert Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Underground
Calvert Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Graysville Concentrator	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Holman Prospect	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Prospect
King Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mottley Family Farmstead	0.7 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001273 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lafayette County	All 13 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.