From Camping to Glamping: Oconto / Peshtigo (cont'd)

June 21, 2016 We picked up a brochure at the Beyer Home Museum about a self guided walking tour of Oconto Historic Homes. I really like old houses, even when I can only see the outside. Seeing historic houses saved is so much better than knocking them down to build today's "mansions" that won't survive a century or two like these will. My two cents. All of these houses are occupied.

First Church of Christ Scientist

Built in 1886 for $1137.20 This is the first edifice built expressly for Christian Science worship. The Mother Church in Boston was not completed until 1894

510 Main Street Built in 1923 by Frank Schneider in the former orchard owned by the next door neighbors Victoria and Henry Sargent.

516 Main Street Built in 1867 by Canadian immigrant, Henry Sargent. He was a logger and lumber merchant and owned a farm. He donated the land for the first Church of Christ Scientist.

522 Main Street Built about 1869 by Daniel Crawford. The land was bought in 1853 and changed hands many times before being sold by Henry Sargent to Crawford.

532 Main Street Built about 1860 by Abel Tourtillotte, an expert canoesman. He was the local taxi and transported people and cargo on the river and along the shore of Green Bay.

548 Main Street Built in 1880 by Oakman Ellis who managed the company that had a sawmill, shingle, planing and flour mills.

558 Main Street Built in 1870 by Edward Barber, a carpenter to be rented.

562 Main Street Built in 1868 by Edward Barber as his family home.

606 Main Street Built in 1929 by Leon Bond, who owned the Bond Pickle Company and bought the land from the Scofield heirs.

610 Main Street Built in 1869 by William Brunquest, early Oconto lumberman and General Store owner for $6500. In the 1870's Edward Scofield married and bought the home. He ran the Scofield-Arnold lumber Company.

Tyna, you would be proud of me. That's a gargoyle.

567 Main Street Built about 1880 by Charles Pendleton, who with brothers, Ira and Frank, ran a large logging operation. His horse barns were located behind the house.

553 Main Street Built about 1883 by "Banker Smith", president of Farnsworth and Smith Bank.

543 Main Street Built about 1878 by Charles Hall, a native of England who came here as a boy. He was a mayor and also built the town first music hall.

537 Main Street Built in 1903 by Harry Landreth who was the owner of a cannery. This house has a name "Twilight"

527 Main Street Built in 1890, this Victorian has an unusual "jerkin-headed roof.

523 Main Street Built about 1889 by Ira Pendleton. W. A. Holt who became the general manager of his father's Holt Lumber bought this house in 1891 and lived here for 60 years.

503 Main Street Built about 1878 by James Sargent, who with his brother Henry, were lumber merchants and landowners. They had a 200 acre cattle farm along Oconto's north bay shore.

451 Main Street Built in 1871 by F. E. Paramore, who was a doctor in both the Spanish American war and the civil war.

443 Main Street Built in 1881 by Thomas Morrison, an Irish wagon maker for Holt Lumber.

439 Main Street Built in 1881 by Simon Murphy, a lumberman. A later owner discovered that the house was built with salvaged 2X6s from when they had been chained together to secure the lumber when it was rafted out to ships.

427 Main Street Built in 1895, the land was bought for $150.00 in 1869 by Truman Phelps. He was the bookkeeper for Holt Lumber. It stayed in the family until 1923.