GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Hazelwood House is one of Brown County’s oldest residences, still on its original site, and it’s just down the road, on the banks of the Fox River in Green Bay.
Right off South Monroe Avenue, the white house holds some of the early history of Brown County. Once inside, you are transported back nearly 190 years, when a prominent family called Hazelwood House home.
“It was built in 1837, finished in 1838, and it was the family home of Morgan L. Martin and his wife, Elizabeth, and their children. Morgan was from New York, came here as a lawyer. This was still Michigan Territory, and he fell in love with the Fox River. He decided to practice the law here,” says Chris Dunbar with the Brown County Historical Society…