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Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory

historic building in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ104854108 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory is a historic three-story building in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It was designed in the Italianate style, and built in 1885 for businessmen Theodore Zscnetzsche, Jacob Jung, and Charles Wolff. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 30, 1992.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory” as historic building in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wolff-Jung, Company and Shoe can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as historic building in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104854108. Authority coordinates are 43.749, -87.712. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1885 and 1992.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory primary sources, Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory archive and Wolff-Jung research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.