Veterans Home Chapel

	Veterans Home Chapel
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Veterans Home Chapel
Location	N2665 County Road QQ; King, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°20′14″N89°08′36″W / 44.33723°N 89.14334°W Coordinates: 44°20′14″N89°08′36″W / 44.33723°N 89.14334°W
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference #	85001366
Added to NRHP	June 19, 1985

Last updated April 14, 2019

The Veterans Home Chapel is located in King, Waupaca County, Wisconsin on the grounds of the Wisconsin Veterans Home. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

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National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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History

The chapel was established by the Grand Army of the Republic.^[2] It is part of the Wisconsin Veterans Home complex and is in the Veterans Cottages Historic District.

The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army, Union Navy, Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War. Founded in 1866 in Springfield, Illinois, and growing to include hundreds of posts across the nation, it was dissolved in 1956 at the death of its last member, Albert Woolson (1850–1956) of Duluth, Minnesota. Linking men through their experience of the war, the G.A.R. became among the first organized advocacy groups in American politics, supporting voting rights for black veterans, promoting patriotic education, helping to make Memorial Day a national holiday, lobbying the United States Congress to establish regular veterans' pensions, and supporting Republican political candidates. Its peak membership, at more than 490,000, was in 1890, a high point of various Civil War commemorative and monument dedication ceremonies. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), composed of male descendants of Union Army and Union Navy veterans.

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References

↑ "Veterans Home Chapel". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
↑ "Veterans Home Chapel - King, WI". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2012-03-11.

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[1] "Veterans Home Chapel". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2012-03-11.

[2] "Veterans Home Chapel - King, WI". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2012-03-11.