Historical Marker
John George Ott House
Historical marker location:
754 Jenifer Street, Madison, Wisconsin
( Marker is at the intersection of Jenifer Street and South Livingston Street, on the left when traveling east on Jenifer Street.)
Marker installed: 1979
1873.
The first kindergarten in the United States was started in Watertown, Wisconsin in 1856 by a German immigrant named Margarethe Meyer Schurz.