Oshkosh – Webster Building

The three-story, approximately 12,000 square-foot (4,200 retail square feet & 10 apartments) Webster Building stands in downtown Oshkosh as a shining example of successful private/public sector partnerships. Today, this magnificently restored building is a combination of cosmopolitan-style apartments as well as retail businesses.

Designed more than one hundred years ago in the fashionable "Queen Anne" architectural style, the building began to fall into disrepair in the late 1940s. In 2001 it made the "10 Most Endangered" list of historic properties by the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation. Webster Building also won the 2005 Historic Preservation Award for best "mixed-use" rehab by the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation.

Working in partnership with city officials, the State Historical Society and the National Parks Service, Compass Properties began an extensive restoration process, taking great care to preserve the building's historical significant style and architectural features.

Webster Building Facts:
  •  - Address: 501-505 N. Main St., Oshkosh
  •  - 12,000 square-foot (4,200 retail square feet & 10 apartments)
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    • >Webster Building Features:
  •  - Elaborate tin ceilings, restored and repainted to match the original
  •  - The exterior highlights its curved windows, patterned brickwork with stone trim work, decorative stone elements, and fanciful tin bays with decorative caps.
  •  - A decorative turret with a large flagpole anchors the building to the corner of Church Avenue and North Main Street