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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Aldo Leopold Shack, Levee Road, Baraboo, Sauk County, WI
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Leopold, Aldo
     Aldo Leopold Foundation , sponsor
     Can, Yasemin Gulec , delineator
     Can, Agah , field team
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Measured Drawing(s): 5
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS wi-359
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: The significance of the Aldo Leopold Shack is based upon its relevance to the life and work of conservationist and environmental philosopher Aldo Leopold who owned the property from 1935 to 1948. The development of scientifically-based land ethic may be seen as the most significant work of Aldo Leopold's life. Aldo Leopold who lived between 1887 and 1948 has been described as the 'father of modern conservation. In his efforts to understand the land and to redefine the relationship and the responsibility of humans to it, he contributed to a wide array of scientific disciplines in the field of conservation. The shack that he and his family renovated into a dwelling provided Leopold with a place from which he could study the complex interrelationships between the soil, plants and animals and attempt to restore the land to its earlier level of complexity and diversity. Aldo Leopold began purchasing land in Fairfield Township, north of Baraboo, in 1935. The shack property that he found in January 1935 was a chicken coop and the only viable structure at the site at that time. The family purchased the property in April 1935 and then removed a portion of the shack's west wall and built a shed-roofed bunkhouse addition on the side of the building. Work on the shack continued in the spring of 1936. Leopold collected the required windows and doors from a Madison junkyard. During the renovation in the spring of 1937, they chinked the walls to keep out the drafts, and battered them with wood that was provided by the river. Finally they added wood shingles over the tarpaper roof. The Aldo Leopold Shack still stands where it was built as a chicken coop in the early 1900s, and where the Leopolds renovated it as a dwelling between 1935 and 1939. The shack is a timber and dimensional lumber-framed structure that sits on a stone foundation. The exterior walls are 2" sandwich of various wood products. the exterior pace is unpainted 3/4" vertical barn boards with vertical and horizontal batten boards covering butted joints. The shack is no longer a summer or weekend home. Its meaning has grown beyond its initial use. The largely intact nature of the building provides a strong association with the life and work of Aldo Leopold. In 1978 the shack was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1114
  • Survey number: HABS WI-359
  • Building/structure dates: after 1900 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1935-1939 Subsequent Work
  • National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78000082
• Subjects:
  • chicken houses
  • Shacks
  • domestic life
  • stone foundations
• Place:
  • Wisconsin--Sauk County--Baraboo
• Latitude/Longitude: 43.56166666666666, -89.65833333333334
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Call Number: HABS wi-359
• Medium: Measured Drawing(s): 5

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