The College Avenue Historic District in

Appleton, Wisconsin Appleton ( mez, Ahkōnemeh) is a city in Outagamie, Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, southwest of Green Bay and north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the c ...

is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

that was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1982. In 1982, it included 27 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area, one of which is the 12 story

Zuelke Building The Zuelke Building is a twelve-story, 168 foot neo-gothic high rise building in Appleton, Wisconsin. It is named for Irving Zuelke. It was completed in 1932, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register o ...

, and one contributing object, the Soldiers Square Civil War Monument. with The contributing buildings include: *

, 103 W. College Avenue, a twelve-story gray granite building. Its interior is one of few intact original interiors in the district. *Gibson's Auto Exchange, at 211 W. College Avenue,

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

. *Bissing Building, 203-205 W. College Avenue, with lions' heads in its roofline pediments. In 1982 two commercial establishments, Boot Hill and Brown Beam Tavern, occupied the building.

References

Appleton, Wisconsin Geography of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Outagamie County, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-NRHP-stub