Off WI 42, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. County/parish: Door.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 31, 1974. NRIS 74000080.
10 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.
The Clearing Folk School, usually called just The Clearing, is a 125-acre (0.51 km2) continuing education institution located near Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded by Jens Jensen in 1935. A successful landscape architect, Jensen began acquiring a private summer estate in 1919; the estate, re-landscaped by Jensen, became the nucleus of the school. Jensen was inspired by the folk high schools of his native Denmark.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106780767