Intensive Survey Report, City of Washburn, Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Heggland, Timothy

Abstract: "This report documents an intensive architectural/historical survey of all resources located within an area that corresponds to the corporate boundaries of the city of Washburn as of November 1, 2008. This represents a study area whose boundaries were set by the City of Washburn in conjunction with the staff of the State of Wisconsin's Division of Historic Preservation prior to the beginning of this study. Subsequently, a reconnaissance survey of this area was undertaken by the principal investigator as the first part of the intensive architectural/historical survey, after which an intensive research effort designed to ascertain the historic and architectural significance of the resources identified by the reconnaissance survey was undertaken by the principal investigator. The results of this research is summarized in this intensive survey report and they are also embodied in information that has been entered into a computer database developed by the State Division of Historic Preservation. The purpose of this intensive survey project was two-fold; to identify all the resources within the study area that are potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and to provide the City of Washburn and other county, state, and national agencies with a comprehensive data base that covers all the historic resources within the study area. The intensive survey ultimately surveyed 147 individual resources. Of these, twelve individual buildings, two multiple building complexes, and one historic residential district containing a total of thirty-one individual buildings were identified as having potential for listing in the National Register." Funding for this project was provided in part through a 2008 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Washburn (project number WI-08-003) administered by the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 55-08-21754) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Washburn, Wisconsin is a Certified Local Government.

Intensive Survey Report, City of Washburn, Bayfield County, Wisconsin

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