National Register of Historic Places listings in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.[1]
There are 18 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 16, 2024.[2]
Current listings
[edit]| [3] | Name on the Register[4] | Image | Date listed[5] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arcadia Free Public Library |  |
April 29, 1994 (#94000388) |
406 East Main Street 44°15′08″N 91°29′44″W / 44.2522°N 91.4956°W | Arcadia | Carnegie library built in 1906 in Neoclassical style and stocked partly with books donated by Senator Levi Withee.[6] |
| 2 | Capt. Alexander A. Arnold Farm |  |
March 21, 1978 (#78000142) |
North of Galesville off U.S. 53 44°05′33″N 91°20′24″W / 44.0925°N 91.34°W | Galesville | Italianate house with three-story tower built in 1874 by Arnold, a Civil War vet, farmer, banker, and Speaker of the Wisconsin assembly.[7][8] |
| 3 | Bartlett Blacksmith Shop-Scandinavian Hotel |  |
September 18, 1984 (#84003786) |
218 East Mill Road 44°04′55″N 91°20′54″W / 44.0819°N 91.3483°W | Galesville | The front brick blacksmith shop was built in 1871, one of the earliest commercial buildings in town. In 1900 it was converted to a boarding house called the Scandinavia Hotel. In 1945 it was converted again, to a dairy plant. Now a residence.[9] |
| 4 | John Bohrnstedt House |  |
September 18, 1984 (#84003788) |
830 Clark Street 44°05′07″N 91°21′34″W / 44.0853°N 91.3594°W | Galesville | Fine 2.5-story brick house with gabled-ell plan built in 1901.[10] John immigrated from Germany, farmed, served in the Civil War, and held stock in the Bank of Galesville.[11] |
| 5 | John F. Cance House |  |
September 18, 1984 (#84003790) |
807 West Ridge Avenue 44°04′59″N 91°20′48″W / 44.0831°N 91.3467°W | Galesville | 1908 house designed by G. H. Carsley in Tudor Revival style, with the original carriage house. President of the Bank of Galesville, Cance had worked his way up from an entry-level position.[12][13] |
| 6 | Coman House |  |
November 15, 1984 (#84000747) |
581 Third Street 44°00′16″N 91°26′04″W / 44.0044°N 91.4344°W | Trempealeau | Brick Italianate-style house with cupola, built in 1862.[14] |
| 7 | Downtown Historic District |  |
September 18, 1984 (#84003791) |
Roughly Gale Avenue, Main, and Davis Streets 44°04′58″N 91°20′55″W / 44.0828°N 91.3486°W | Galesville | 17 contributing buildings, mostly commercial, including the 1871 Bartlett Blacksmith shop, the 1886 Romanesque Revival Clark Block, the 1902 Romanesque Revival T. E. Jensen & Co Confectionery, and the public square's bandstand, built in 1912.[15] |
| 8 | East Arcadia Roller Mill |  |
March 22, 2021 (#100006294) |
W25818 Mill Rd. 44°15′04″N 91°27′54″W / 44.2512°N 91.4650°W | Arcadia | Two-story gristmill built in 1900 on the bank of Turton Creek by millers Michael Stelmach and John Kalma.[16] |
| 9 | Gale College Historic District |  |
February 14, 1997 (#84004020) |
Twelfth Street 44°04′46″N 91°22′04″W / 44.0795°N 91.3677°W | Galesville | Buildings of the defunct Gale College, consisting of the 1859 Italianate Old Main (pictured), the 1906 Men's Dormitory, and the 1915 Ladies Hall.[17] |
| 10 | Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot |  |
April 19, 2006 (#06000302) |
36295 Main Street 44°22′06″N 91°19′03″W / 44.3683°N 91.3175°W | Whitehall | Small brick depot built in 1914 by the Green Bay and Western Railroad with separate waiting rooms for men and women. It replaced an earlier wooden depot built in 1877 by the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad.[18] |
| 11 | Hanson-Losinski Rockshelter Complex | March 22, 2024 (#100010089) |
Address Restricted | Arcadia vicinity | Quarries and carvings of deer, birds, diamonds and ovals made by prehistoric people beneath sandstone blufftop overhangs.[19] | |
| 12 | Independence City Hall |  |
January 17, 2002 (#01001474) |
23688 Adams Street 44°21′27″N 91°25′16″W / 44.3575°N 91.4211°W | Independence | City hall and opera house with clock tower, designed in Queen Anne style by C. G. Maybury & Sons of Winona. Begun in 1902, half-destroyed by the tornado in 1903, but then completed. Re-equipped as a movie theater in the 1920s.[20][21] |
| 13 | Tollef Jensen House |  |
September 18, 1984 (#84003793) |
806 West Gale Avenue 44°04′58″N 91°21′34″W / 44.0828°N 91.3594°W | Galesville | 2.5 story Queen Anne house built in 1913 for Tollef, who owned an ice cream and confectionery shop in Galesville.[22] |
| 14 | Main Street Historic District |  |
November 15, 1984 (#84000763) |
Roughly Main Street between First and Third Streets 44°00′18″N 91°26′32″W / 44.005°N 91.4422°W | Trempealeau | Ten contributing commercial buildings, ranging from wooden Boomtown-style stores built around 1880 to the 1888 Queen Anne E. J. Hankey General Store, to the 1912 Prairie School Citizens State Bank, to Dr. Pierce's office, built in 1915.[23] |
| 15 | Melchoir Brewery and Hotel Ruins |  |
November 15, 1984 (#84000769) |
Address Restricted | Trempealeau | First brewery in Trempealeau County, built in 1857 of sandstone blocks cut from the caves in the bluff behind the building. Prussian immigrant Jacob Melchoir brewed lager from locally grown wheat and stored it in those caves at 44 degrees year-round.[24] |
| 16 | Ridge Avenue Historic District |  |
September 18, 1984 (#84003792) |
Roughly Ridge Avenue from Forth to Sixth Streets 44°05′01″N 91°21′18″W / 44.0836°N 91.355°W | Galesville | 11 contributing buildings, consisting of the 1895 Queen Anne First Presbyterian Church, variations of Queen Anne homes, and a Mediterranean Revival home built in 1930.[25] |
| 17 | Schwert Mound Group |  |
November 1, 1974 (#74000128) |
Address Restricted | Trempealeau | Remnants of a group of 26 conical mounds. The mound pictured (Nicholls) contained Hopewell people buried in a bark structure with points and pipes traded from as far as the Rocky Mountains and Lake Superior.[26] |
| 18 | Trempealeau Platform Mounds Site |  |
December 23, 1991 (#91001822) |
Eastern extremity of the Trempealeau Bluffs[27] 44°00′29″N 91°26′33″W / 44.0081°N 91.4425°W | Trempealeau | Three Mississippian platform mounds on a bluff, built around 1000 AD. Shards of pottery from Cahokia have been found below.[28][29] |
Former listing
[edit]| [3] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Second Street Bridge | December 12, 1984 (#84000608) | May 18, 1988 | Second Street | Galesville | Metal, overhead Pratt truss bridge, built in 1910.[30] |
See also
[edit]- List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin
- Listings in neighboring counties: Buffalo, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Jackson, Winona (MN)
References
[edit]- ^ The latitude and longitude information provided is primarily from the National Register Information System, and has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. For 1%, the location info may be way off. We seek to correct the coordinate information wherever it is found to be erroneous. Please leave a note in the Discussion page for this article if you believe any specific location is incorrect.
- ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved August 16, 2024.
- ^ a b Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
- ^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ^ "Arcadia Free Public Library". Wisconsin Historic Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ "Captain Alexander A. Arnold Farm (Mary)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ "Eastside Farm". Eastside Farm. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ "Bartlett Blacksmith Shop - Scandinavia Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ "John Bohrnstedt House (John and Mary)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ Pierce, Eben Douglas (1917). History of Trempealeau County. Chicago and Winona: H C Cooper Jr & Co. pp. 434–435. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
John Bohrnstedt AND galesville.
- ^ "John F. Cance House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ^ "John F. Cance Carriage House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ^ "Coman House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ^ "List of Properties in Galesville's Downtown Historic District". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ^ "East Arcadia Roller Mill". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ^ "List of Buildings in the Gale College Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ^ "Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ^ Boszhardt, Robert F.; Schrab, Geri (2016). Hidden Thunder: Rock Art of the Upper Midwest. State Historical Society of Wisconsin. pp. 179–193. ISBN 978-0-87020-768-6.
- ^ "Independence City Hall (and Public Library)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
- ^ "Independence, WI Welcomes You!". Page on Opera House. Independence, WI. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
- ^ "Tollef Jensen House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
- ^ "List of Properties in Trempealeau's Main Street Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
- ^ "Melchoir Brewery and Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
- ^ "List of Properties in the Ridge Avenue Historic District". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ "Archaeology in Trempealeau, Wisconsin". Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center - UW-La Crosse. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ^ Green, William, and Roland L. Rodell. "The Mississippian Presence and Cahokia Interaction at Trempealeau, Wisconsin". American Antiquity 59.2 (1994): 334-359: 336.
- ^ Birmingham, Robert A.; Leslie E. Eisenberg (2000). Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 150–151. ISBN 0-299-16874-3.
- ^ "Mississippian Culture and Aztalan". Turning Points. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ "Second Street Bridge". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
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