Wilmarth School

Wilmarth School is a school building in Ashland, Wisconsin which was built in 1891. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is noted for its architecture—the design of Henry Wildhagen—which is of the 19th- and 20th-century revival styles.[2]

Wilmarth School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	913 3rd Ave. W., Ashland, Wisconsin
Coordinates	46°35′1″N 90°52′48″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1891
Architect	Henry Wildhagen
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
MPS	Henry Wildhagen Schools of Ashland TR
NRHP reference No.	80000104[1]
Added to NRHP	July 17, 1980

It is a two-story-plus-basement cream brick and brownstone building. It has a center "chisel-roof" tower containing the front entrance, which has a Palladian-like sidelights and stairlight. It has a stone panel with the school's name and three windows over a center arch. It has two large cream brick chimneys with corbelled caps and a hipped roof.[2]^:3

Wildhagen also designed three other schools in Ashland, also NRHP-listed: Ashland Middle School (1904), Beaser School (1899), and Ellis School (1900).[2][note 1]

Notes

1. The thematic resources document notes the four schools were built in 1895, 1899, 1900, and 1904, according to school records, without distinguishing which (page 5). However, Beaser School was 1899-built (page 4). Ashland Middle School was the "finally produced" one (page 5), hence must be 1904-built. Ellis is "closest in age" to the middle school (page 4), so it must be the 1900 one. It is noted that Wilmarth was built in 1895 (page 3).

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Stauffer, Eugene; Barbara Wyatt; Diane Filipowicz (December 22, 1979). "Henry Wildhagen Schools of Ashland Thematic Resources". National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination. National Park Service. Retrieved February 15, 2017. and photo of Wilmarth School from 1979