{"id":295,"slug":"alexander-noble-house-fish-creek-wisconsin","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Alexander Noble House is the oldest — the 1875 Greek Revival farmhouse that's the oldest residence in Fish Creek still on its original site, built by the Scottish blacksmith who was the village's founding father. The land grant was signed by Lincoln.","The house was the founder's — the blacksmith who made his own tools and nails, the postmaster and town chairman, the man who built the first sawmill on Chambers Island. The wallpaper from 1897 is still on the walls; the house is the village's first frame building.","The house is still there — the museum on Main Street, the 10 rooms that are the domestic life of Door County's pioneers. The file keeps the house: the 1875 founding, the Lincoln land grant, and the oldest home in the village.","The Noble House is the archive's pioneer file — the 1875 blacksmith's house, the oldest in Fish Creek, and the museum that's the village's first home."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Noble House is the archive's pioneer file — the oldest house in Fish Creek, the blacksmith founder, and the Lincoln-signed land grant.","A village's oldest house keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that the Noble House's hold is the blacksmith: the tools he made himself, the land Lincoln signed, and the house that's the village's first frame building."]}],"name":"Alexander Noble House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"A historic house in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, built in 1875, Alexander Noble House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house associated with documented cultural history. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"Main Street and Egg Harbor Road","city":"Fish Creek","county":"Door","state":"Wisconsin","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":45.07142,"lon":-86.99668,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1875,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":229,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Accounts describe unusual photographs, abrupt cold and slamming doors. Alexander Noble House in Fish Creek, Wisconsin is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The account appears in 'Spooky Door County is Full of Ghosts'. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Spooky Door County is Full of Ghosts","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/spooky-door-county-is-full-of-ghosts","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built in 1875; maintained by the Gibraltar Historical Association. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. 'Spooky Door County is Full of Ghosts' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Spooky Door County is Full of Ghosts","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/spooky-door-county-is-full-of-ghosts","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Accounts describe unusual photographs, abrupt cold and slamming doors. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Sources including 'Spooky Door County is Full of Ghosts' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Spooky Door County is Full of Ghosts","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/spooky-door-county-is-full-of-ghosts","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Spooky Door County is Full of Ghosts","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/spooky-door-county-is-full-of-ghosts","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Alexander Noble House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Noble_House","desc":"Historic house in Wisconsin, United States","extract":"The Alexander Noble House, built in 1875, is a historic Greek Revival farmhouse located in Fish Creek, Door County, Wisconsin on Wisconsin Highway 42. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1996.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/AlexanderNobleHouse2011FishCreekWisconsin.jpg/330px-AlexanderNobleHouse2011FishCreekWisconsin.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":108,"lat":45.12762222,"lon":-87.24655833},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}