National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin facts for kids

Location of Eau Claire County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.

There are 62 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another two properties were once listed but have been removed.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 24, 2017.

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	Brady Anderson and Waldemar Ager House		02000-03-16March 16, 2000 (#00000190)	514 W. Madison St. 44°48′57″N 91°30′50″W	Eau Claire	Carpenter Brady Anderson built this ornate Victorian house between 1892 and 1894 for his own family. Norwegian-American writer Waldemar Ager bought the house in 1903, and wrote and raised his family there.
2	James Barber House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003374)	132 Marston Ave. 44°48′15″N 91°29′45″W	Eau Claire	Tudor Revival house designed by Harry Wild Jones and built around 1904. Barber was an executive of the Northwestern Lumber Company, involved in other Eau Claire businesses, and a defendant in a case about logging public land in Idaho that went to the Supreme Court.
3	Barnes Block		01982-01-22January 22, 1982 (#82000665)	15-21 S. Barstow St. 44°48′46″N 91°30′04″W	Eau Claire	1893 Romanesque Revival building, also known as Chippewa Valley Bank, and Cameron-Drummond-Slagsvold Building.
4	Martin Van Buren Barron House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003375)	221 Washington St. 44°48′15″N 91°29′33″W	Eau Claire	Carpenter Gothic house built in 1871 for Barron, who operated an early flour and feed store, then worked for the Rust-Owen lumber company.
5	Einar and Alice Borton House		02013-07-23July 23, 2013 (#13000541)	1819 Lyndale Avenue 44°48′23″N 91°28′31″W	Eau Claire	Lustron house, (inexpensive, prefabricated, enameled-steel) built in 1949. Einar was a teller at American National Bank and Trust.
6	Sarge Boyd Bandshell		02003-09-02September 2, 2003 (#03000896)	First Ave., Owen Park 44°48′19″N 91°29′58″W	Eau Claire	Designed by Alex Garnock and built in 1938 by the WPA to accommodate the popularity of the Eau Claire Municipal Band, the bandshell was dedicated in 1992 to Donald I. "Sarge" Boyd in recognition of the profound influence his half century of musical leadership had on the cultural development of the Chippewa Valley.
7	Orlando Brice House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003376)	120 Marston Ave. 44°48′14″N 91°29′47″W	Eau Claire	Georgian Revival home of an executive of the Wisconsin Refrigerator Company, built 1918.
8	California Wine and Liquor Store		01982-03-01March 1, 1982 (#82000666)	201 Farmers St. 44°36′03″N 90°57′55″W	Fairchild	1896 brick commercial building.
9	Carson Park Baseball Stadium		02003-07-25July 25, 2003 (#03000698)	Carson Park Dr., Carson Park 44°48′26″N 91°31′14″W	Eau Claire	The stadium, constructed as a WPA project in 1936 from Downsville sandstone, hosted the Eau Claire Bears and a young Hank Aaron.
10	Clarence Chamberlin House		02000-01-27January 27, 2000 (#99001726)	322 W. Grand Ave. 44°48′31″N 91°30′22″W	Eau Claire	Chamberlin came to Eau Claire in 1856 as a salesman for the Ingram and Kennedy Lumber company. He built this house in 1881 in Second Empire style. After a fire he added Queen Anne and Classical Revival elements.
11	Pearl and Eva Chambers House		02012-01-12January 12, 2012 (#11001027)	1615 State St. 44°47′54″N 91°29′41″W	Eau Claire	1928 Colonial Revival home. Pearl was the vice-president of the New Dells Lumber Company.
12	Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad Depot		01985-10-24October 24, 1985 (#85003383)	324 Putnam Ave. 44°49′00″N 91°29′47″W	Eau Claire	Brownstone depot of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, designed by Charles Sumner Frost Richardsonian Romanesque style and built in 1893. Now demolished.
13	Christ Church Cathedral and Parish House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003377)	510 S. Farwell St. 44°48′33″N 91°29′48″W	Eau Claire	The Episcopal congregation built the Tudor Revival parish house in 1910. In 1916 they built the Gothic Revival church building, which was designed by Purcell & Elmslie.
14	City Hall		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003378)	203 S. Farwell St. 44°48′44″N 91°29′54″W	Eau Claire	Eau Claire's second city hall, this Classical Revival/Beaux-Arts building was built in 1916.
15	Cobblestone House		01974-11-19November 19, 1974 (#74000084)	1011 State St. 44°48′18″N 91°29′38″W	Eau Claire	1866 house with exterior of local cobblestones constructed in Gothic Revival style for stonemason Bradley Marcy.
16	Community House, First Congregational Church		01974-07-18July 18, 1974 (#74000085)	310 Broadway 44°48′19″N 91°30′22″W	Eau Claire	Prairie School church hall built in 1915, designed by Purcell & Elmslie with touches of Gothic Revival style. The building was funded by Cornelia Ingram, wife of a local lumber baron and member of the Congregational church.
17	Confluence Commercial Historic District		02007-10-03October 3, 2007 (#07001047)	2-28 S Barstow; 206-316 Eau Claire & 8 S Farwell Sts. 44°48′46″N 91°30′04″W	Eau Claire	Point of origin of city of Eau Claire, at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers, with contributing buildings including the 1861 Kneer House hotel, the 1875 Derge cigar factory, the 1893 grand Romanesque Revival Drummond-Cameron building, and the 1925 Art Deco Kline's Department Store.
18	Dells Mill		01974-12-24December 24, 1974 (#74000086)	About 3 mi. NNW of Augusta off WI 27 44°43′32″N 91°08′54″W	Augusta	The gristmill on Bridge Creek was built in 1864, when wheat was the cash crop in this part of Wisconsin.
19	Drummond Business Block		02007-10-10October 10, 2007 (#07001084)	409-417 Galloway St. 44°48′54″N 91°30′05″W	Eau Claire	Built from 1879 to 1884, the buildings housed a meat-packing company, a wholesale grocer, and later the Farmers Store.
20	David Drummond House		01974-07-30July 30, 1974 (#74000087)	1310 State St. 44°48′05″N 91°29′44″W	Eau Claire	Brick Queen Anne-styled house built in 1888 by Drummond, who started a meat-packing business, Eau Claire Gas and Light, a real estate business, and the Pioneer Furniture Company.
21	Eau Claire High School		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003379)	314 Doty St. 44°48′43″N 91°29′47″W	Eau Claire	This Collegiate Gothic school, built in 1925, was Eau Claire's only public high school until 1957. Since 1982 it's been used as offices and storage for the school district.
22	Eau Claire Masonic Temple		02007-11-14November 14, 2007 (#07001197)	317-319 S Barstow & 306 Main Sts. 44°48′37″N 91°29′54″W	Eau Claire	Built in 1899, the former (1899-1927) Eau Claire Masonic Temple is now the Antique Emporium.
23	Eau Claire Park Company Addition Historic District		02004-09-10September 10, 2004 (#04000950)	Roosevelt, McKinley, and Garfield between Park Ave. and State St. 44°47′51″N 91°29′47″W	Eau Claire	38 contributing homes in various styles, ranging from the Dutch Colonial Revival Stokes home built in 1907 to a 1936 house in International Style on Roosevelt Ave. to Ranch-style houses built in the early 1950s.
24	Eau Claire Public Library		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003380)	217 S. Farwell St. 44°48′43″N 91°29′53″W	Eau Claire	Carnegie library built in 1903. Designed in Classical Revival style by Patton & Miller.
25	Eau Claire Vocational School		02014-11-12November 12, 2014 (#14000917)	1300 1st Ave. 44°48′51″N 91°30′32″W	Eau Claire	3.5-story factory built in 1891, in which the Eau Claire Trunk Company made suitcases. The city converted it to a vocational school in 1941. Housed the city's Parks, Rec and Forestry department from 1968 to 2009.
26	Christine Eichert House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003381)	527 N. Barstow St. 44°49′09″N 91°31′37″W	Eau Claire	Queen Anne house built in 1897-98 for Eichert, a partner in the John Walter Brewing Company, and sister to John.
27	Emery Street Bungalow District		01983-05-20May 20, 1983 (#83003382)	Emery St. between Chauncey and Agnes Sts. 44°48′39″N 91°28′47″W	Eau Claire	Largely intact neighborhood of middle-class bungalow-style homes built between 1915 and 1930.
28	First Methodist Episcopal Church		01999-02-18February 18, 1999 (#99000241)	421 S. Farwell St. 44°48′37″N 91°29′48″W	Eau Claire	The Neo-Gothic church, built in 1911, still contains its original Kimball and Company pipe organ.
29	Gilbert Gikling House		02001-01-16January 16, 2001 (#00001668)	421 Talmadge St. 44°48′43″N 91°29′31″W	Eau Claire	Gikling worked in a lumber mill and for the Linderman Box and Veneer Company. He built this Queen Anne house in 1895.
30	James Stephen Hoover and Elizabeth Borland Memorial Chapel	Upload image	02000-01-07January 7, 2000 (#99001662)	Lakeview Cemetery, Buffington Dr. 44°48′44″N 91°31′28″W	Eau Claire	Neo-Gothic cemetery chapel, constructed in 1936.
31	John Johnson Saloon	Upload image	01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003383)	216 Fifth Ave. 44°48′10″N 91°30′35″W	Eau Claire	Wooden "Boomtown" style tavern constructed in 1882. Now demolished.
32	Kaiser Lumber Company Office		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003384)	1004 Menomonie St. 44°48′05″N 91°31′12″W	Eau Claire	Brick commercial vernacular office built in 1905. Kaiser was the last lumber company established in Eau Claire. It subsumed the Daniel Shaw company, and operated sawmills, lumber kilns, a planing mill, a lath mill, and a box factory, operating from 1905 to 1939.
33	A. L. Kenyon House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003385)	333 Garfield Ave. 44°47′54″N 91°29′34″W	Eau Claire	Upscale bungalow built in 1915.
34	Levi Merrill House		01985-06-20June 20, 1985 (#85001358)	120 Ferry St. 44°47′54″N 91°32′05″W	Eau Claire	1873 house mixing elements of Gothic Revival and Classical Revival styles. Merrill was a stonemason who owned the Mount Washington stone quarry, up the bluff behind the house.
35	Oatman Filling Station		02001-01-16January 16, 2001 (#00001669)	102 Ferry St. 44°47′56″N 91°32′05″W	Eau Claire	This 1931 house-type gas station was designed to blend into its suburban neighborhood.
36	Ottawa House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003386)	602 Water St. 44°48′08″N 91°30′42″W	Eau Claire	Wooden false front saloon and home constructed after the 1882 fire. May have catered to French-Canadian laborers from the lumber mills nearby.
37	John S. Owen House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003387)	907 Porter Ave. 44°48′20″N 91°29′46″W	Eau Claire	Colonial Revival home built in 1923 for Owen, one of Eau Claire's lumber barons.
38	Pioneer Block		01980-08-27August 27, 1980 (#80000134)	401-409 Water St. 44°48′07″N 91°30′28″W	Eau Claire	Gothic styled block of brick stores built in 1882.
39	Jane E. Putnam Memorial Chapel		02000-01-07January 7, 2000 (#99001663)	Forest Hill Cemetery, Emery St. 44°48′31″N 91°29′17″W	Eau Claire	Neo-Gothic-styled chapel in Forest Hill Cemetery built in 1908 in memory of Jane's husband H. C. Putnam, land agent and philanthropist.
40	Randall Park Historic District		01983-05-20May 20, 1983 (#83003390)	Roughly bounded by Lake and Niagara Sts., 3rd and 5th Aves. 44°48′18″N 91°30′23″W	Eau Claire	Early Eau Claire residential neighborhood, where both businessmen and laborers lived near the mills on Half Moon Lake.
41	Adin Randall House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003389)	526 Menomonie St. 44°48′05″N 91°30′38″W	Eau Claire	Upright and Wing house built in 1862. Randall was an early settler and promoter of Eau Claire. He ran a ferry across the Chippewa, a planing mill, a sash and door factory, and invented the sheer boom to efficiently shunt logs into Half Moon Lake.
42	Roosevelt Avenue Historic District		02009-04-15April 15, 2009 (#09000219)	415,419,429,443,449 & 455 Roosevelt Ave. 44°47′48″N 91°29′31″W	Eau Claire	Cluster of five houses built from 1929 to 1941 along Little Niagara Creek.
43	Sacred Heart Church		01983-03-03March 3, 1983 (#83003391)	418 N. Dewey St. 44°49′05″N 91°29′59″W	Eau Claire	Romanesque Revival church built in 1928 by Catholic congregation to replace earlier church buildings which had been on the site since around 1875.
44	Saint Edward's Chapel		02000-01-07January 7, 2000 (#99001661)	1129 Bellevue Ave. 44°49′01″N 91°29′29″W	Eau Claire	Neo-Gothic mission church building built 1889-1896 by the local Episcopal congregation. Converted to a home 1923-1926.
45	Salsbury Row House		02009-04-15April 15, 2009 (#09000220)	302-310 W. Grand Ave. 44°48′31″N 91°30′19″W	Eau Claire	Wood-frame Victorian row house built in 1891. Owner lived in corner unit; others were rentals. Sole remaining row house in Eau Claire.
46	Schofield Hall		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003393)	105 Garfield Ave. 44°47′55″N 91°30′00″W	Eau Claire	Built around 1916 to house Eau Claire State Normal School, in Collegiate Gothic style. It was then called "Old Main." Today it's the administration building for UW-Eau Claire.
47	William and Tilla Schwahn House		02001-01-16January 16, 2001 (#00001670)	447 McKinley Ave. 44°47′49″N 91°29′28″W	Eau Claire	1928 Georgian Revival home of Schwahn, part owner of a saddlery factory on Wisconsin Street.
48	Second Ward School		02000-01-07January 7, 2000 (#99001664)	1105 Main St. 44°48′43″N 91°29′10″W	Eau Claire	Collegiate Gothic school built around 1916. Renamed "Boyd School" in 1951 and operated until 2002. Now apartments.
49	Soo Line Locomotive 2719		01994-01-10January 10, 1994 (#93001453)	Carson Park 44°48′25″N 91°31′14″W	Eau Claire	Locomotive moved in 2006 to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota
50	St. Joseph's Chapel		01988-01-14January 14, 1988 (#87002436)	Sacred Heart Cemetery, Omaha St. 44°49′27″N 91°28′50″W	Eau Claire	Gothic Revival chapel built in 1896 in Sacred Heart cemetery.
51	St. Patrick's Church		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003392)	322 Fulton St 44°48′41″N 91°30′30″W	Eau Claire	Catholic church built in Gothic Revival style in 1885. It's the oldest remaining church in Eau Claire.
52	Steven House		01982-03-01March 1, 1982 (#82000667)	606 Second Ave. 44°48′22″N 91°30′13″W	Eau Claire	1909 Prairie School home designed by Purcell & Feick. J. D. R. Steven was part owner of Eau Claire Book and Stationary.
53	Temple of Free Masonry		01988-01-14January 14, 1988 (#87002450)	616 Graham Ave. 44°48′27″N 91°29′53″W	Eau Claire	Built in 1927, the primary purpose of the Temple of Free Masonry, better known as the Masonic Center or Temple, has been to provide meeting space for the area's Masonic organizations. Since the mid-1990s, it has also served as the rain/rehearsal site for the Eau Claire Municipal Band.
54	Third Ward Historic District		01983-05-20May 20, 1983 (#83003394)	Roughly bounded by Chippewa River, Park Pl., Gilbert Ave., and Farwell St. 44°48′02″N 91°29′38″W	Eau Claire	Prestigious residential neighborhood. Boundary increase (listed September 10, 2004): Approximately seven blks in the Third Ward bounded by State St., Summit Ave., Farwell St. and Garfield Ave.
55	Union Auto Company		02007-10-11October 11, 2007 (#07001085)	505 S. Barstow St. 44°48′34″N 91°29′51″W	Eau Claire	This 1917 building had an auto showroom at street-level and an elevator to lift cars to the higher floors. The reinforced concrete structure was a rather new technology, strong enough to support cars at all three levels.
56	Union National Bank		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003395)	131 S. Barstow St. 44°48′43″N 91°30′00″W	Eau Claire	1930 Art Deco building. Union Bank had roots in local banks that went back to the 1870s.
57	US Post Office and Courthouse		01991-07-25July 25, 1991 (#91000899)	500 S. Barstow Commons 44°48′32″N 91°29′54″W	Eau Claire	Classical Revival courthouse and post office, built in 1907. Also known as Eau Claire Federal Building.
58	Walter-Heins House		01982-03-19March 19, 1982 (#82000668)	605 N. Barstow St. 44°49′08″N 91°30′08″W	Eau Claire	1897 Queen Anne house, built for John Walter, who brewed Walter's Beer just a few blocks to the north.
59	Water Street Historic District		02007-10-11October 11, 2007 (#07001086)	402-436 & 401-421 Water St. 44°48′07″N 91°30′28″W	Eau Claire	This little business district began as a steamboat landing on the Chippewa River in the 1850s. Today it's a funky little "other downtown" that serves the University community.
60	Dr. Nels Werner House		02001-01-16January 16, 2001 (#00001671)	443 Roosevelt Ave. 44°47′48″N 91°29′27″W	Eau Claire	Georgian Revival home built in 1929 for a local physician.
61	Roy Wilcox House		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003396)	104 Wilcox St 44°48′16″N 91°29′49″W	Eau Claire	Wilcox was an Eau Claire trial lawyer and state senator 1917-20. He built this Prairie School/Georgian Revival home around 1915.
62	George F. Winslow House		01978-12-08December 8, 1978 (#78000094)	210 Oakwood Pl. 44°48′07″N 91°29′45″W	Eau Claire	1889 Queen Anne house designed by architect George Franklin Barber. Winslow published the Woodsman Journal and sold patent medicines to lumbermen in northern Wisconsin.

Former listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	Phoenix Manufacturing Company		01983-01-28January 28, 1983 (#83003388)	01985-12-06December 6, 1985	Forest and Wisconsin Sts.	Eau Claire	Company formed in 1861 to build and repair sawmill machinery. Moved to Forest and Wisconsin in 1874 and made bandsaws and the Phoenix steam hauler, a sort of locomotive on bulldozer tracks for pulling loads of logs through the woods. Now redeveloped as Phoenix Park.
2	Kline's Department Store		01984-06-14June 14, 1984 (#84003669)	?	6-10 S. Barstow St. 44°48′46″N 91°30′02″W	Eau Claire	Department store built in 1926 with elements of Commercial Gothic and Art Deco styles. Demolished in 2014