The W.H.C. Folsom House is located in

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Prairie du Chien () is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,506 at the 2020 census. Its ZIP Code is 53821. Often referred to as Wisconsin's second oldest city, Prairie du Chien was esta ...

History

The house was built for

W.H.C. Folsom William Henry Carman Folsom (June 22, 1817 – December 17, 1900) was a businessman and politician in Minnesota. Born in New Brunswick, Canada, he later emigrated to the United States and settled in Maine. He moved west to Minnesota in the 1840s ...

, a Canadian immigrant who was later a member of the

Minnesota House of Representatives The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are 134 members, twice as many as the Minnesota Senate. Floor sessions are held in the north wing of the State Capitol in Saint Pa ...

and the

Minnesota State Senate The Minnesota Senate is the upper house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. At 67 members, half as many as the Minnesota House of Representatives, it is the largest upper house of any U.S. state legislature. Floor sessions are hel ...

. During the

Mexican–American War The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States intervention in Mexico''), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1 ...

Wiram Knowlton Wiram Knowlton (January 24, 1816June 27, 1863) was an American politician and jurist from Wisconsin. He was a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge and '' ex officio'' Justice of the pre-1853 Wisconsin Supreme Court (the Wisconsin Supreme Court before 185 ...

, another noted politician, used it as a recruiting location and artist

John Muir John Muir ( ; April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, a ...

worked at the house as a printer. In addition, it served as a clubhouse. The house is one of two historic properties that belonged to Folsom, the other being the

Folsom House The Folsom House is a historic house museum at 272 West Government Street in Taylors Falls, Minnesota, United States. Description and history It is the restored former home of lumber magnate W.H.C. Folsom, who moved his family to the area in ...

Taylors Falls, Minnesota Taylors Falls is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States, located at the junction of U.S. Highway 8 and Minnesota State Highway 95. The population was 1,055 at the 2020 census. History Taylors Falls was platted in 1850 or 1851, and ...

. It 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 1984 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Folsom Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, Wisconsin Houses in Crawford County, Wisconsin Greek Revival architecture in Wisconsin Brick buildings and structures Houses completed in 1842