Built 1888 Opened 1888 Added to NRHP 1 March 1984 | NRHP Reference # 84003824 Area 1,619 m² Architect William Waters | |
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Location 1200 Washington Ave., Oshkosh, Wisconsin Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar Oshkosh Grand Opera Ho, Oshkosh Public Museum, Rockwell Light, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, EAA Aviation Museum | ||
The Richard Guenther House in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States, is a large, fine Queen Anne house designed by Waters and built by Jacob Rheiner in 1888 for Richard W. Guenther. Guenther was a Prussian immigrant who owned a drug store in Oshkosh, became Wisconsin state treasurer, US Congressman, and consul to Mexico City, Frankurt, and Cape Town. From 1906 to 1913 the large house hosted Dr. M. E. Corbett's new Lakeside Sanitorium and Training School for Nurses, the first hospital in Oshkosh, which later evolved into Mercy Medical Center.
Largely unaltered, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for its architectural significance, for its association with Guenther, and for its service as Oshkosh's first hospital.