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Nathan Strong Park Historic District

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in WisconsinNational Register of Historic Places in Green Lake County, WisconsinUse mdy dates from August 2023
NathanStrongParkHistoricDistrictBerlinWisconsin
NathanStrongParkHistoricDistrictBerlinWisconsin

The Nathan Strong Park Historic District is located in Berlin, Wisconsin.

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Nathan Strong Park Historic District
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North State Street 156
54923
Wisconsin, United States
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Nelson F. Beckwith House
Nelson F. Beckwith House

The Nelson F. Beckwith House is a historic house located at 179 East Huron Street in Berlin, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.Nelson F. Beckwith was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and also owned the Beckwith House Hotel. Home of the Llewellyn J. Walker family from 1944, this Italianate house has 12 foot ceilings, front and back stairs, and bonus rooms over the kitchen. A two-story center entrance hall with curving staircase opens on one side to a large dining room with bay and on the other side to a 35 foot long living room, with a bay deep enough for couches and table. Both rooms have marble fireplaces surmounted by large mirrors and every room is ringed with deep cove moldings. The windows are floor to ceiling French doors which open in. Next to the living room is a library with built in bookshelves and desk, and behind the dining room are the large eat-in kitchen, a play room or home office, a back hall, and a powder room. Upstairs are three very large bedrooms and a bathroom which opens into a back hall and two rooms for storage space or bedrooms. In earlier years, these were maids’ rooms. Off them, there is a back stairway. From the street, one can see the cupola and widow's walk. The curving front drive is brick, and the house is partially surrounded by a brick and wrought iron fence. The cement back driveway ends at the double garage. Described as “one of the most imposing houses in the city” in “Early Houses In Berlin, Wisconsin and the People who Lived in Them ” by Lu Gillette published in 1976, this property Is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built by an early settler of what was then “Strong’s Landing” in 1857 in the Italianate style, the house sits on a double wide lot next to the public park on Huron Street in the city of Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin. Berlin is not only an historic town on the Fox River which was part of the passageway from Green Bay to the Mississippi River followed by explorers such as Marquette and Joliet, but this area was also home to the Mascoutin tribe of Native Americans. Llewellyn Walker founded the Walker Agency, an independent insurance agency in Berlin in 1940. His son, Jeffrey William Walker took over when Llewellyn retired, and in 2018 the agency was headed by Jeff's son, Gregory William Walker in partnership with his son, Matthew. Llewellyn and Virginia's daughter, Diana Walker Nelson was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1970 - 74.

WISS (AM)

WISS (1100 kHz) or Oshkosh Air Support is an American AM radio station broadcasting a progressive talk format featuring local news and information as well as statewide programming originating from the Civic Media network. It is licensed to Berlin, Wisconsin, United States, serving central Wisconsin and Fox Valley. It used to operate at 1090 kHz. The station is owned by Sage Weil and Michael Crute, through licensee Civic Media, Inc, acquired in 2022. WISS changed its music format from classic country to soft oldies on February 2, 2009. Artists heard as part of the new format, according to the station's website, include The Beatles, Carpenters, The Supremes, Barry Manilow, Anne Murray, Frank Sinatra, Kenny Rogers, and Neil Diamond.The station ran an annual trivia contest between 1982 and 2005. The contest was billed as the "world's longest running commercial trivia contest" before its end in 2006. It has added a simulcast on 97.3 FM because AM 1100 does not operate all day. The 97.3 simulcast is available 24 hours a day, and is in operation before, during, and after AM 1100 is on the air. On May 5, 2011, WISS replaced classic hits with news/talk introducing themselves as a Fox News Radio station.In 2014, WISS received a U.S. Federal Communications Commission construction permit to increase power to 50,000 watts day and 20,000 watts critical hours. The power increase was never built. On May 9, 2016, WISS changed its format from news/talk to classic hits, simulcasting WAUH 102.3 FM Wautoma and the translator moved from 97.3 FM Berlin to 98.7 FM Oshkosh. On September 30, 2022, Civic Media acquired WISS. On October 7, 2022, it dropped its simulcast with WAUH and changed its format to progressive news/talk as "Air Support Radio". With the format change, WISS opened a new studio in downtown Oshkosh with the intention of originating local programming.