About the Heritage Center

The New Richmond Preservation Society, Inc. was chartered in 1982 to preserve the history of the City of New Richmond and surrounding area. The Society owns and operates the Heritage Center, which is open for tours, programs and events.

​When you visit our museum of 11 historic buildings filled with artifacts from our past, you will be able to get a feel for how early citizens would have lived and worked.

Several of the buildings were once the center of a working family farm. That farmland has now become crisscrossed by city streets, its fields of corn and grain now host to houses, yards, driveways and swingsets.
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But, the heart, the nerve center, of that farm has been retained: the Victorian Italiante farmhouse, the classic barn, the grain storage building they called a "granary." The pasture where the dairy herd once grazed after they waded in the small creek is still there (changed to a recreational walking trail system). The creek even retains its picturesque historic name, the Paperjack, so called because a man who sold rags and was called a "paper jack" once lived on its banks.

Added to the farmstead buildings have been others, a store, log cabin, church, country schoolhouse, log barn, and a working man's home. You can show children a picture and say, "This is how it was," or you can watch the delight in their eyes as they experience, first hand, a real country school or general store.

A large slice of New Richmond can be found in the farmhouse at Heritage Center. We have several excellent books "They Built Their City Twice: A History of New Richmond, Wisconsin" researched and written by our Curator and longtime New Richmond resident, Mary Sather. This book features 150 vivid photographs and 200 pages of local history spanning 150 years. For more information and more on our book selection, see the Heritage Center Gift page. Thank you.

Preserving Our Heritage
Only through the efforts of the present can we support both the memories of the past and the plans and dreams of the future. You can show your support in many different ways: Membership, Volunteer, Cash Donation, Artifact Donations, Future Bequests. To see how you can make a difference in our efforts, please visit our Support Us page.

Membership is open to everyone. Simply call and we will send out a brochure
along with a postage paid return envelope.   Members receive newsletters, free tours, and program discounts.

​Contact
New Richmond Heritage Center
1100 Heritage Drive
New Richmond, WI 54017
Phone: 715-246-3276
[email protected] ​

Museum Hours
​Open Year Around 
Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Additional Museum Hours and Flea Market Hours:
May through October


Also open by appointment.

​Directions

The Heritage Center is located near the south end of New Richmond, WI. Turn east at the stoplight by the AmericInn Hotel.  The large dairy barn and silo a half a block directly ahead of you are part of the museum. Follow the road to our parking lot on the south side of the large Victorian house and look for the office which is located in the smaller grey house.  Walk-in tours are always welcome as well as simply browsing the grounds on you own.

Executive Director
Bev Peirson 

Assistant Director
Abby Updyke

Board of Directors
Paul Mayer, President
Michelle Scanlan, Vice President
Deb Newman, Treasurer 
Jim Brockphaler
Lori DeBoer
Ann Goodlad  
Larry Johnson
Jamyn Peterson
Naomi Stovall