National Register of Historic Places listings in La Crosse County, Wisconsin facts for kids

Location of La Crosse County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in La Crosse 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 57 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 March 24, 2017.

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	10th and Cass Streets Neighborhood Historic District		December 13, 2000 (#00001534)	Roughly bounded by Main, South 11th Street, Cameron Avenue, and South 8th Street 43°48′43″N 91°14′32″W	La Crosse	Residential district with 33 contributing properties, including many of the earliest elaborate homes in the city. These include the 1859 Italianate Laverty-Martindale house, the 1871 Italian Villa-styled Webb-Withee house, the 1874 Italianate Governor George Peck house, the 1884 Stick style Frank Burton house, the 1886 Queen Anne Crosby house, and the 1914 Prairie style Kinnear house.
2	23rd and 24th Streets Historic District		November 5, 2010 (#10000839)	Generally bounded by Campbell Road, Losey Blvd. North, Main Street, Vine Street, and 23rd Street North 43°48′52″N 91°13′14″W	La Crosse	Residential district of upper middle class homes built from 1915 to 1952 in various styles. E.g. the 1915 Lucht bungalow, the 1915 American Foursquare Thomas house, the 1926 Spanish Colonial Beach house, the 1935 Tudor Revival Spangler Rental house, the 1935 Colonial Revival Crowley Rental House, the 1940 International-style Newberg house, and the 1950 Sorensen Ranch house.
3	Agger Rockshelter		March 25, 1988 (#87002239)	Address Restricted	Stevenstown
4	Mons Anderson House		May 6, 1975 (#75000071)	410 Cass Street 43°48′30″N 91°15′05″W	La Crosse	Gothic Revival-styled home with large square turret built from 1861 to 1877 for Anderson, a Norwegian immigrant who ran a store in La Crosse and later shifted into wholesale dry goods. The house was later used as YWCA, then apartments.
5	E.R. Barron Building		June 19, 1985 (#85001362)	426-430 Main Street 43°48′43″N 91°15′02″W	LaCrosse	3-story Romanesque building designed by Schick and Stoltze and built in 1891, with Edward Barron's dry goods store on the first floor, offices on the 2nd floor, and a Masonic Temple on the third floor.
6	Bell Coulee Shelter		July 9, 1997 (#97000782)	Address Restricted 44°00′11″N 91°02′10″W	Mindoro	Rock shelter containing pictographs and petroglyphs, including 7 buffalo and a human figure, probably made by Oneota people.
7	Bridge No. 1		February 27, 1980 (#80000146)	NW of La Crosse 44°01′15″N 91°18′28″W	La Crosse	134-foot steel double-span bowstring arch truss bridge with wooden deck, built 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company.
8	Bridge No. 2		February 27, 1980 (#80000147)	NW of La Crosse 44°01′16″N 91°18′38″W	La Crosse	141-foot steel double-span bowstring arch truss bridge with concrete deck, built 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company.
9	Bridge No. 3		February 27, 1980 (#80000148)	NW of La Crosse 44°01′17″N 91°18′51″W	La Crosse	110-foot steel single-span bowstring arch truss bridge with wooden deck, built 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company.
10	Bridge No. 4		February 27, 1980 (#80000149)	NW of La Crosse 44°01′24″N 91°19′14″W	La Crosse	131-foot steel double-span bowstring arch truss bridge with concrete deck, built 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company.
11	Bridge No. 5		February 27, 1980 (#80000150)	NW of La Crosse 44°01′24″N 91°19′44″W	La Crosse	65-foot wood kingpost bridge, built by the Clinton Bridge Company in 1920 to replace a flood-damaged bridge.
12	Bridge No. 6		February 27, 1980 (#80000151)	NW of La Crosse 44°01′27″N 91°20′08″W	La Crosse	50-foot steel bowstring arch truss bridge with wooden deck, built 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company.
13	John L. Callahan House		April 14, 1995 (#95000406)	933 Rose Street 43°50′16″N 91°14′54″W	La Crosse	2.5 story home with bell-roofed turret, designed in Queen Anne style by Schick and Stoltze and built near a lumber mill in 1894 for Callahan, a local physician who used it as home and office. Later it was a funeral parlor, then divided into apartments.
14	Cass and King Street Residential Historic District		November 7, 1997 (#97001410)	Roughly bounded by State, South 21st, and Madison Streets, and West Avenue South 43°48′36″N 91°14′00″W	La Crosse	Large residential district on the prairie between the Mississippi and the bluffs, with homes built from the 1880s to 1940s representing many styles, including the 1890 Queen Anne Gantert house, the 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque Holway house, the 1901 Tudor Revival Hixon house, the 1902 Georgian Revival Cutler house, the 1912 Prairie Style Salzer house, the 1918 Colonial Revival Scott house, the 1920 Kutzborsky bungalow, the 1922 Neoclassical First Church of Christ, Scientist and the 1924 Neogothic English Lutheran Church.
15	Chambers-Markle Farmstead		March 22, 1991 (#91000341)	6104 WI 35 43°44′57″N 91°12′04″W	La Crosse	Farm begun by John Chambers in 1853. 2.5 story Queen Anne style farmhouse built of local brick for Emmanuel Markle in 1885-86, a barn built in 1923, chicken coop, smoke house, and a 1938 irrigation system that pumped water from the Mississippi.
16	Dr. H. H. Chase and Henry G. Wohlhuter Bungalows		June 30, 1983 (#83003400)	221 and 223 South 11th Street 43°48′34″N 91°14′25″W	La Crosse	A pair of one-story Prairie Style bungalows, nearly mirror images, designed by Percy Bentley of La Crosse and built in 1913 for friends Chase and Wohlhuter. Chase was a dentist and Wohlhuter managed the La Crosse Theater.
17	Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Passenger Depot		December 1, 1997 (#97001512)	601 Saint Andrew Road 43°49′56″N 91°14′49″W	LaCrosse	Eclectic-styled brick depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway designed by A.O. Lagerstrom and built in 1927. Now the La Crosse Amtrak station.
18	Christ Church of La Crosse		June 19, 1985 (#85001361)	831 Main Street 43°48′43″N 91°14′40″W	LaCrosse	1898 Episcopal church, designed in Romanesque Revival style by M.S. Detweiler with large corner tower and locally-quarried buff limestone contrasted with red sandstone. Features a Tiffany stained-glass window.
19	District School No. 1		March 21, 1996 (#96000303)	US 14/61 E of Jct. with WI 35 43°45′31″N 91°11′22″W	Shelby	Rural, brick one-room school with bell tower, built in 1917 in Craftsman style with Prairie School influences. Children learned here until consolidation into the La Crosse school system in 1965. Now a bed and breakfast called the Wilson Wilson School House Inn.
20	Edgewood Place Historic District		October 28, 2010 (#10000867)	2500 block of Edgewood Pl. 43°49′08″N 91°13′09″W	La Crosse	Secluded neighborhood of period revival homes built from 1935 to 1940, including the 1937 Colonial Revival Orton house, the 1937 Tudor Revival Wittich house, and the 1940 Art Moderne Denzer house.
21	Freight House		March 2, 1982 (#82000678)	107-109 Vine Street 43°48′56″N 91°15′11″W	La Crosse	1880 2-story cream brick office building with triptych window and 1-story freight warehouse of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. Alongside is the plush business car of Daniel Willard when he was vice-president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
22	Joseph B. Funke Company		October 22, 2014 (#14000876)	101 State Street 43°48′53″N 91°15′14″W	La Crosse	Brick candy factory built in 1898, with offices, salesroom, stockroom and shipping on first floor and production on upper three floors. Employed 220 at its peak. Now known as the Charmont.
23	Hamlin Garland House		November 11, 1971 (#71000040)	357 West Garland Street 43°53′56″N 91°04′51″W	West Salem	The house built by William Hull in 1859 was bought by author Garland in 1893 to bring his ailing parents back to the coulee country of his youth. Garland expanded the house and wrote some of his major works there.
24	Gideon C. Hixon House		December 30, 1974 (#74000095)	429 North 7th Street 43°48′58″N 91°14′49″W	La Crosse	Italianate house, started in 1859 and added to for decades. Hixon was an early lumber baron, with sawmills at the mouth of the Black River and in Hannibal MO, a leader of the La Crosse National Bank, and a state legislator. Today the house is a museum, still containing most of the furnishings from the Hixon era.
25	Gund Brewing Company Bottling Works		December 15, 2008 (#08001202)	2130 South Avenue 43°47′32″N 91°14′35″W	La Crosse	Progressive beer-bottling factory built in 1903, designed by Louis Lehle with modern sanitization and pasteurization machines that gave Gund's beer a reliable shelf life, and electrical power that allowed an efficient plant layout. Now remodeled as apartments.
26	La Crosse Armory		April 22, 2016 (#16000206)	2219 South Ave. 43°47′31″N 91°14′31″W	La Crosse	The building was originally built in 1902 as a stable for the Gund Brewing Company, designed by C.F. Struck in Romanesque Revival style. Starting in 1921 Gund leased the building to the Wisconsin Army National Guard as its armory.
27	La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy		March 13, 1987 (#87000438)	700 Wilson Street 43°52′34″N 91°13′42″W	Onalaska	Designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff of La Crosse in Collegiate Gothic style and built in 1909, this was the 5th school of Agriculture and Domestic Science in the state. Later became Onalaska High School.
28	La Crosse Plow Company Building		February 2, 2016 (#15001055)	525 North Second Street 43°49′01″N 91°15′05″W	LaCrosse	2-story tractor factory built in 1937, an early use of curtain wall construction.
29	LaCrosse Commercial Historic District		September 2, 1994 (#94001064)	Roughly bounded by Jay Street, Second Street South, State Street, and Fifth Avenue South 43°48′44″N 91°15′06″W	LaCrosse	The old downtown, including the 1866 Voegle grocery and saloon, the 1870 Italianate Solberg grocery store, the 1894 Romanesque/Queen Anne Rehfuss dry goods building, the 1903 Chicago school Doerflinger department store, the 1920 NeoClassical Rivoli building, and the 1940 Moderne Hoeschler Exchange building.
30	LaCrosse State Teachers College Training School Building		July 15, 1999 (#99000850)	1615 State Street 43°48′48″N 91°13′55″W	LaCrosse	Teacher training college building designed by Brust and Brust in Collegiate Gothic style and built in 1939, with support from the New Deal's PWA. A.k.a. Morris Hall.
31	Laverty-Martindale House		November 23, 1977 (#77000033)	237 South 10th Street 43°48′33″N 91°14′31″W	La Crosse	Italianate house with cupola built around 1860 for Thomas (a storekeeper and Civil War soldier) and Maria Laverty, then bought in 1868 by Stephen (mill owner, Civil War soldier, and insurance agent) & Katharine Martindale.
32	Losey Memorial Arch		May 30, 2002 (#02000598)	1407 La Crosse Street 43°49′06″N 91°14′07″W	La Crosse	Classical Revival arch designed by Hugo Schick and built in 1901 at entry to city cemetery. Joseph Losey was a local attorney who worked to beautify the cemetery in the late 1800s.
33	Main Hall/La Crosse State Normal School		March 14, 1985 (#85000579)	1724 State St., Univ. of WI, La Crosse 43°48′49″N 91°13′47″W	La Crosse	First building of the state teacher training school which would become UW-La Crosse. Designed in Renaissance Revival style by Van Ryn & DeGelleke and built 1908 to 1909, this building was the entire school for its first 11 years.
34	Maria Angelorum Chapel		March 29, 2006 (#06000204)	901 Franciscan Way 43°48′14″N 91°14′37″W	La Crosse	Chapel of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, designed by Eugene R. Liebert in Romanesque Revival style and built 1901-1906, with altar and pews built by the Egid Hackner altar company of La Crosse.
35	Midway Village Site		December 18, 1978 (#78000111)	West of Holmen	Holmen	Archeological site where Woodland, Mississippian and Oneota people left behind pottery, stone tools, a few copper tools, and evidence that some of them grew corn and beans.
36	Mindoro Cut		May 15, 2007 (#07000428)	WI 108, between Mindoro and West Salem 44°01′46″N 91°05′30″W	Hamilton	74-foot deep hand-hewn cut, threaded by Highway 108 through the top of Phillips Ridge. Dug in 1907 with picks, shovels, wheelbarrows and dynamite, it is believed to be the second deepest hand-hewn cut in the U.S., and the only one that survives largely unaltered.
37	Carl August Mundstock Farm		November 21, 1994 (#94001332)	US 14/61, N side, E of jct. with WI 35 43°45′36″N 91°11′12″W	Shelby	Farm includes gambrel-roofed barn, 1906 Queen Anne-styled brick farmhouse, and outbuildings. Now the Four Gables B&B.
38	Frank Eugene Nichols House		February 11, 1993 (#93000027)	421 North Second Street 43°53′10″N 91°14′10″W	Onalaska	1888 Queen Anne-styled house built on a knoll overlooking Lake Onalaska by local lumber baron Nichols, with original matching carriage house and cast-iron fence.
39	Oehler Mill Complex		May 22, 2013 (#13000314)	W5539 & W5565 County Road MM 43°45′11″N 91°11′05″W	Shelby	Rural flour and grist mill built in 1862 on Mormon Creek by German immigrants Valentine and Gottfried Oehler, along with a large root cellar built in 1876 and both brothers' Italianate homes built in the 1880s.
40	Will Ott House		January 15, 1980 (#80000152)	1532 Madison Street 43°48′24″N 91°13′58″W	La Crosse	Classic Queen Anne home with 3-story turret and interior finished in various hardwoods. Designed by Schick and Stoltz and built in 1900. Ott was the president of Segelke and Kohlhaus Manufacturing.
41	Our Lady of Sorrows Chapel		September 11, 1986 (#86002302)	519 Losey Boulevard South 43°48′19″N 91°13′08″W	La Crosse	Gothic Revival chapel designed by Schick and Stoltze and built in 1891 as a burial place for bishops and priests of the La Crosse Diocese.
42	Overhead Site		December 18, 1978 (#78000112)	South of La Crosse Coordinates missing	La Crosse	Acheological site containing Middle Woodland burials and possible Hopewell artifacts.
43	Palmer Brother's Octagons		August 7, 1979 (#79000092)	358 North Leonard Street and WI 16 43°54′05″N 91°04′54″W	West Salem	Two octagon houses, built in Neshonoc and later moved to West Salem when the railroad bypassed Neshonoc. Monroe Palmer was a mill owner who built the first house around 1855. His brother Dr. Horace Palmer built the second house around 1860.
44	Physical Education Building/La Crosse State Normal School		April 11, 1985 (#85000791)	UW La Crosse Campus off US 16 43°48′52″N 91°13′48″W	La Crosse	3-story red brick building housing gymnasium and pool, designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff in Collegiate Gothic style and built in 1916. A.k.a. Wittich Hall.
45	Powell Place		December 22, 1983 (#83004299)	200-212 Main Street 43°48′47″N 91°15′12″W	La Crosse	Red-brick Italianate commercial building with metal window hoods, cornice, and columns, built by Benjamin Healey in 1878. Among other occupants, Dr. David Franklin Powell had offices in the building from 1881 to 1891. He had been an army scout, an army surgeon, traveled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, sold patent medicines like White Beaver's Cough Cream, and served as mayor of La Crosse four times.
46	W. A. Roosevelt Company		February 16, 1984 (#84003690)	230 North Front Street 43°48′53″N 91°15′13″W	La Crosse	5-story Chicago-style warehouse with offices, designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff and built in 1916. Roosevelt Co. was a regional wholesaler of plumbing, heating and electrical supplies.
47	Samuels' Cave		June 11, 1991 (#86003275)	Northwestern quarter of Section 20, Township 16, Range 6	Barre Mills	Rockshelter containing petroglyphs and pictographs of human forms and animals, probably created by Oneota people.
48	Sand Lake Archeological District		April 20, 1984 (#84003694)	Address Restricted	Onalaska	Area has produced stone points and pieces of Oneota pottery.
49	Sand Lake Site (47Lc44)		June 30, 1983 (#83003401)	Address Restricted	Onalaska	Here ridged fields of the Oneota were rapidly covered by sediments around 1450 AD, preserving remnants of corn, squash, beans and tobacco, hoes made from bison and elk scapulas, and other tools.
50	Smith Valley School		July 30, 1981 (#81000044)	4130 Smith Valley Road 43°50′40″N 91°10′40″W	La Crosse	Rural one-room school built in 1887 by Seidenberg and Hemke. Served the valley until 1977.
51	Swennes Archaeological District		July 18, 1985 (#85001573)	Address Restricted	Onalaska	Oneota camp (possibly winter camp) with storage pits and hearths.
52	U.S. Fish Control Laboratory		September 17, 1981 (#81000045)	Riverside Park 43°49′06″N 91°15′20″W	La Crosse	Facility built in 1924 which rescued fish from flooded lands and distributed them, "infected" with glochidia, to other areas. Also studied how to control the sea lamprey.
53	Valley View Site		December 15, 1978 (#78000113)	North of Medary	Medary	Small, pallisaded Oneota village site, on a terrace above the La Crosse River.
54	James Vincent House		October 20, 1988 (#88002024)	1024 Cass Street 43°48′31″N 91°14′28″W	La Crosse	Well-preserved brick Italianate home with Queen Anne elements, designed by W.L. Carroll and William Parker and built in 1885, with the interior finished in various hardwoods. Vincent was a lumber man, co-owning one of the first lumber yards in La Crosse.
55	Waterworks Building		July 27, 1979 (#79000093)	119 King Street 43°48′38″N 91°15′11″W	La Crosse	City pumping station for the fire hydrant system. Brick Romanesque Revival building designed by John A. Cole, built in 1880, and expanded around 1890.
56	Wisconsin Telephone Company Building		March 7, 1985 (#85000491)	125 North 4th Street 43°48′48″N 91°15′03″W	La Crosse	Neoclassical building with terra cotta ornamentation, designed by H. J. Esser of Milwaukee and Hugo Schick of La Crosse and built in 1901 for the Wisconsin Telephone Company, which figured in an important Wisc. Supreme Court case. Remodeled in 1920 by Otto Merman as the Security Savings Bank.
57	George Zeisler Building		February 25, 1993 (#93000069)	201 Pearl Street 43°48′46″N 91°15′15″W	La Crosse	Small brick Italianate-styled commercial building built in 1886 as a "sample room" for Zeisler's Plank Road Brewery.

Former listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	William W. Cargill House		1974 (#74002337)	Unknown	235 West Ave., S.	La Crosse	Demolished in 1975.
2	West Salem Village Hall		September 14, 1981 (#81000046)	June 15, 1984	103 South Leonard Street	West Salem	1897 brick municipal building with bell tower. Demolished in 1982.