POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES

1. William J. Niederkorn House. 409 W. Grand Ave. The very handsome Niederkorn house is the best example of Georgian Revival residential design in Port Washington. Built in 1928 on a large corner lot that was previously occupied by Mrs. Arntz' confectionary building and business, the Niederkorn house is two-stories in height and is built of brick that is now and may have always been painted. The house was built for W. J. Niederkorn, who was the founder and president of the Simplicity Manufacturing Co., which he started in 1920 and which has become one of Port Washington's largest industries. Although the designer of his house has not yet been identified, it was clearly an architect with experience in residential design and the house is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) by virtue of its integrity and its architectural excellence. It may also be potentially eligible under Criterion B as well, for its historic associations with Niederkorn, since it is now potentially the most intact of the several buildings that were associated with his life in Port Washington.

2. Masonic Temple. 504 W. Grand Ave. This fine two-story Neo-Classical Revival Style building was constructed for Port Washington's Masonic Lodge in 1923 to a design by a Milwaukee architect, John Topzant. One of the finest and the most intact of the non-residential buildings constructed in Port Washington in the first half of the twentieth century, the Temple was built on a large corner lot at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Moore Street and features most of the design elements typically associated with this style including a symmetrical main facade, masonry walls (red brick in this case), two-story portico, and classical detailing. The Temple is still the home of Port Washington's Masonic Lodge and it is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) by virtue of its integrity and because of the excellence of its design.

3. Herziger's West Side Meat Market. 531 W. Grand Ave. This wood frame Queen Anne Style building is an unusual, highly intact example of a building designed to house both a dwelling and a commercial enterprise, in this case a meat market. Historic maps and other sources suggest that this building was built between 1900 and 1908 and the original owner and occupant of both house and dwelling was Charles Herziger, who operated it as the West Side Meat market. A later occupant was the Scheer Meat Market, which occupied the building until 1978, when the current owner took possession. The unusual design of the east wing of this otherwise very residential appearing building is due to its use as the meat locker of the butcher shop. The Herziger Meat Market is now the only intact frame turn-of-the-century retail commercial building left in Port Washington and it is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C )Architecture) as a fine example of what is now a very rare property type in Port Washington.

4. William F. Schanen, Sr. House. 746 Grand Ave. The Schanen house is the best example of the Norman Revival style in Port Washington and it is also one of the best and most elaborate Period Revival Style houses in the city. Port Washington attorney William F. Schanen, Sr. built his new house in 1928 on a large double lot that had been previously occupied by a much older brick house, which was moved to make way for the present house. Schanen's brick-clad house and its matching detached garage were probably designed by the Green Bay firm of Foeller, Schober, and Berners, who would later design the Schanen Building at 125 E. Main St. for Schanen in 1942. Complete with a style-defining corner tower that houses the main entrance, the Schanen house is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture).

5. Louis Teed/John Bohan House. 829 W. Grand Ave. Built ca.1850, the Greek Revival style Teed-Bohan house is one of the earliest remaining houses in Port Washington and one of the earliest surviving buildings of any kind in the city The original portion of this house is the temple-like hip-roofed front section, which has a four-column-wide colonnaded portico. In recent years, a modern addition that is very close in design and materials to the original portion has been added to the rear of the original section, but this addition is so faithful to the original that its later date of construction is not immediately apparent. Louis Teed, the first owner and reputedly the builder of the house, was a masonry contractor. He later rented and finally sold the house to John R. Bohan, the publisher of the Port Washington Star. This clapboard-clad house is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as a fine, largely intact example of the Greek Revival style. This was a style of architecture that was important in the early history of Port Washington but most of the contemporary local examples have now been either demolished or greatly altered.

6. Jacob Schumacher House. 232 W. Jackson St. The Schumacher house was built in 1891 and it is the finest, the most intact, and the most elaborately detailed of the several fine cream brick Queen Anne Style houses in Port Washington. The quality of the detailing is probably due to the profession of the owner, Jacob Schumacher, who was a monument maker and stone cutter in Port Washington and who was undoubtedly responsible for the date stone set into the foundation wall on the main facade. This cream brick-clad cruciform plan house is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as a fine, largely intact example of the Queen Anne Style as applied to a residential building.

7. Wigard B. Krause House. 304 W. Jackson St. The W. B. Krause house is one of the best and most intact of the later examples of the Bungalow Style in Port Washington. This large tan brick irregular plan one-story house was built in 1932 for Wigard B. Krause, one-time publisher of the Port Washington Herald. Since then the house has been remarkably well cared for and it is very intact today and in excellent condition. Consequently, Krause's house is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) as a fine, largely intact later example of the Bungalow Style.

8. Lake Park Band Concert Shell. Ca.442 N. Lake St. The Lake Park Bandshell is one of the most unusual buildings recorded by the Port Washington Intensive survey. Designed in the Georgian Revival Style by the Milwaukee landscape architecture firm of Boerner & Boerner, the cream brick-clad band shell was a gift to the city from Edwin and Mary Jaehnig and was constructed in 1934 as part of the newly developed Lake Park, which was also designed by Boerner & Boerner. In 1985, the inside wall of the shell was decorated with a painting of the American flag, which was commissioned as a 150th anniversary memorial to the deceased of the Van Ellis-Schanen Post #82 of the American Legion. The Band Concert Shell is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) as a fine, highly intact late example of a very rare Wisconsin resource type.

9. Thill's Hotel Building. 101 E. Main St. The Neoclassical Revival Style-influenced Thill Hotel was built in 1902 on the site of an earlier hotel owned and run by Thill. Upon completion, the new building was both the largest and the newest hotel in Port Washington and it retained this distinction until after World War II. Three stories tall, with a rock-faced stone-clad basement story and the main stories clad in cream brick, the hotel's main facade features numerous classically derived details and has an overall feeling of symmetricality even though the actual design is not, in fact, truly symmetrical. This building is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) because of its high degree of integrity and because it is an excellent example of its architectural style and is important to the thematic history of Port Washington hotels.

10. U. S. Post Office. 104 E. Main St. The tan brick-clad Port Washington post office was built in 1937 to a design produced by the Supervising Architect’s office of the U. S. Treasury Department under the direction of William Simon, the Supervising Architect The style was a favorite of this office in the 1930s and is sometimes referred to as "stripped classical," because buildings that display it are generally symmetrical in design and essentially classical in their inspiration, but have been stripped of all but the most elemental aspects of classical architecture. They also typically make use of traditional materials such as brick, stone, and ornamental metal work, all of which are present in this fine, highly intact building. The Post Office building is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) for its exterior design, and under Criterion A (History) for its associations with the Federal Government in Port Washington.

11. Frank Schumacher House. 111 N. Milwaukee St. Historic maps show that this fine cream brick-clad Side Gable form house was built some time prior to 1885, but additional research will be necessary to determine its original owner and construction date. Port Washington tax rolls show, however, that the house was owned by Frank Schumacher as of 1885 and until at least 1928 and it is believed that this person was one of the four older brothers of Jacob Schumacher (see 232 W. Jackson St. above). Although a shallow modern extension was constructed across the back elevation of the house some time after 1955, this house is still the most intact of the several early cream brick Side Gable form houses in Port Washington and is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) for its architectural significance.

12. R. Stelling Grist & Flour Mill. 115 S. Milwaukee St. The three-story Astylistic Utilitarian form Stelling mill is practically the only survivor of Port Washington's once numerous nineteenth century industrial buildings. Sources differ, but it is believed that this now vacant but still very intact building was either first built by Stelling in 1853 or was built in 1848 by George and Julius Tomlinson and afterwards rebuilt and enlarged by Stelling. Further research will be necessary to determine the original owners and construction date, but there seems to be agreement that this building assumed much of its present form under Stelling's ownership. The foundation and much of the first story of this three-story, rectilinear plan gable roofed building is made of rubble stone but the upper stories are clad in cream brick. The scarcity of intact nineteenth century industrial buildings in Port Washington today suggests that the mill is eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) for its architectural significance as a rare resource type and the importance of the mill to the industrial history of the city suggests that it is also eligible under Criterion A (History) as well.

13. Port Washington Fire Engine House. 102 E. Pier St. This one-story Fire Engine House was built in 1928 on the same site as the previous wood frame engine house, which it replaced. The designer of this Mediterranean Revival style building was John Topzant of Milwaukee, who gave it walls clad in brick and a tile roof. A particularly fine feature of the building is the drying tower for fire hoses on the west elevation, which Topzant fashioned into a campanile-like tower. The building served as a fire engine house until 1975, when it was converted into a senior citizens center, and it is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C (Architecture) as an excellent, largely intact, and quite rare example of Mediterranean Revival Style design applied to an atypical resource type. As one of the few surviving pre-World War II buildings associated with city government in Port Washington , this building is also believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion A (History) because of its associations with the City's historic fire prevention efforts.

14. Heinrich Mueller House. 232-236 E. Pier St. 232 E. Pier St., the Heinrich Mueller House, is now the only example in Port Washington of a Federal Style residence, intact examples of which are now exceptionally rare in Wisconsin. Although at first glance this house may appear to be simply a variant of the Side Gable form; its narrow frontage and the massive stone lintels over the window and door openings are style-defining elements. Other characteristic features are the masonry walls (locally made cream brick in this case). Sources differ as to the original date of construction and owner of this house, which Sanborn-Perris maps show was joined to the now resided and expanded Gable Ell form house next door between 1885 and 1893. Still, it is believed that this house, which is believed to have been built ca.1858, is potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) as a fine, largely intact example of the Federal style, perhaps the rarest of all the early architectural styles found in Wisconsin.

15. House. 113 S. Webster St. Historic maps show that this fine cream brick-clad Front Gable form house was built some time prior to 1883, but additional research will be necessary to determine its original owner and construction date. Port Washington tax rolls show, however, suggest that the house was owned by a miller named John Grady, as of 1900. This house is one of the oldest and the most intact of the several early cream brick Front Gable form houses in Port Washington and is believed to be potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) for its architectural significance.

16. Delos Smith House. 204 S. Webster Street. This large, elaborate, intact, and very fine Tudor Revival Style-influenced Bungalow Style house was built in 1928. The Smith family has been active in commercial fishing in Port Washington since the 1890s and this house was constructed for commercial fisherman Delos Smith, the patriarch of that family. Smith's tan brick and stone one-story irregular plan house was almost certainly architect-designed, but the name of the architect has not yet been identified. The Delos Smith House is believed to eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) for the excellence of its design and for its highly intact state.

17. W. D. Poole Funeral Home. 203 N. Wisconsin Street. The Poole Funeral Home is the finest example of Tudor Revival/Elizabethan Revival Style design in Port Washington. Built in 1941 to a design by Milwaukee architect Roy O. Papenthien, this irregular plan one-and-one-half story building used the finest materials in its construction, including dressed limestone for the wall cladding and flat ceramic tiles for the roof. The first story and basement contain the funeral home while the second story contains two apartments, one of five rooms and one of six. Still used by the Poole family as a funeral home today, the funeral home is one of the finest examples of Period Revival style design in Port Washington and its significance is enhanced by its very original condition. Consequently, it is believed that the Poole Funeral Home is potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) for its architectural significance as an excellent example of Tudor Revival Style design.

18. Emil Biever House. 773 N. Wisconsin Street. The house that Emil Biever built for himself between 1914 and 1938 a block north from his hardware store (700 N. Wisconsin Street) is almost the only example of the Arts and Crafts Style in Port Washington and it is definitely the city's finest example. Biever's house was designed by Milwaukee architect Fred Graf and it is clad in stucco above a raised brick-clad foundation. Located on a prominent corner lot and maintained in an excellent, highly intact state, the Biever House is a fine exercise in Arts & Crafts Style design. Consequently, the house is believed to be eligible for inclusion in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture) for its architectural significance as excellent examples of Arts and Crafts Style design.

19. Smith Bros. Fish Net House. 120 1/7 S. Wisconsin St. This simple Astylistic Utilitarian form two-story L-plan building was built by the Smith Brothers as a net storage and workshop facility for their commercial fishing operations in Port Washington. Built between 1922 and 1938 according to Sanborn-Perris maps, this highly intact building has become the most visible resource associated with the commercial fishing history of Port Washington and the recent demolition of the two adjacent buildings, including the Smith Bros. smoke house building, now means that it is the last remaining intact historic building in Port Washington associated with this theme. Consequently, this building is believed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion A (History) because it is the last intact building in Port Washington associated with this locally important historic.

20. Sauk Creek King Post Truss Bridge. Ca.130 S. Wisconsin Street. Reputedly built in 1925, this small, intact bridge is now the only all metal one of this type still in existence in Wisconsin. Consequently, it was Determined Eligible for listing in the NRHP on October 9, 1987 and is thus eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion C, (Architecture and Engineering) as an extremely rare survivor of a bridge type that was once more common in Wisconsin.

21. The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. Port Washington Power Plant. Ca.130 S. Wisconsin Street. This massive power plant building dominates the view to the south of the downtown and has been one of the landmarks of Port Washington since it was built. Now a part of the Wisconsin Electric Co., the plant was begun in 1930 and the first portion, having a steel frame and clad in brown brick, was opened in 1935. This portion is a fine example of the kind of the "stripped classical" type of Neoclassical design seen also on the Port Washington Post Office, being "classical" more in terms of proportion and overall design than in its detailing. Subsequent additions were built in 1943 and 1948-1950. These additions were designed to match the original portion and they combined to create what is now by far Port Washington's largest historic building. This building is still very much in use and is largely intact today, although the four tall smoke stacks that were originally associated with it have since been replaced by two even larger ones.

Besides its architectural distinction, the power plant is also of even greater significance because of its importance to the history of engineering. For many years after it was first opened, the Port Washington plant was "the most thermally efficient plant in the world" thanks to the pioneering work done by its designers on the use of pulverized coal as fuel. In recognition of this status, the plant was designated a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 1980 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.