Sheboygan Sites

"This building is approximately 256 by 388 feet. It contains administrative offices, library, auditorium seating 1,000, double gymnasium, and classrooms for art, music, biology, general science, mechanical drawing, printing, woodworking, and metal working, a study hall seating 200, 25 classrooms, and a cafeteria. The building has a volume of 1,900,000 cubic feet. The entire construction is fireproof. The project was completed in June 1938 at a construction cost of $583,312 and a project cost of $654,468, including about $33,000 for land."

The Sheboygan Post Office was constructed with the help of New Deal funds circa 1934.

Schomer Lichtner painted five murals for the Sheboygan Post Office in 1939 under the auspices of the Treasury Relief Art Project.

The Sheboygan Armory and Auditorium was built in 1941 by the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Supervising Architect was Edgar Stubenrauch, based in Sheboygan. Architectural Features: The two-story structure is representative of the Streamline Moderne/WPA Moderne style. The façade construction consists of precast concrete panels decorated with Art Deco motifs. Typical of the WPA Moderne style, the architectural ornamentation is minimal. Ornamented precast panels are placed primarily at the window headers and the cornice. The structure occupies a site located in the vicinity of Lake Michigan. National Significance: The structure is a good candidate for National Register of Historic Places registration under...