Villa Louis is a National Historic Landmark estate on St. Feriole Island in Prairie du Chien, in southwestern Wisconsin, restored to its late nineteenth century appearance as the home of the H. Louis Dousman family, whose wealth came from fur trading and other business ventures. The current mansion was built in 1871 in the late Victorian Italianate style on the site of an earlier Greek Revival house that had stood there since 1843. Villa Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. The seventeen acre site is now operated as a historic house museum by the Wisconsin Historical Society, and also includes the related Astor Fur Warehouse and Brisbois House. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountPrairie du Chien, United States 2 Completed Year Classification
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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The Villa Louis is a National Historic Landmark located on St. Feriole Island, in Prairie du Chien, southwestern Wisconsin.
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Villa Louis is a National Historic Landmark estate on St. Feriole Island in Prairie du Chien, in southwestern Wisconsin, restored to its late nineteenth century appearance as the home of the H. Louis Dousman family, whose wealth came from fur trading and other business ventures. The current mansion was built in 1871 in the late Victorian Italianate style on the site of an earlier Greek Revival house that had stood there since 1843. Villa Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. The seventeen acre site is now operated as a historic house museum by the Wisconsin Historical Society, and also includes the related Astor Fur Warehouse and Brisbois House.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1843)
completion_date/completed = (1843) 1871
In Style: Italianate Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Late Victorian Italianate
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
The two-story Cream City brick house became the residence of Louis's mother, Jane, while Louis himself moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota not long after construction was finished.
View the Source2. Villa Louis (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q7930393, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Prairie du Chien, United States
Wikidata item Q7930393, property P131/P17 (location): Prairie du Chien, United States
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