National Register of Historic Places listings in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin facts for kids
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.
There are 17 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arcadia Free Public Library |
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(#94000388) |
406 East Main Street 44°15′08″N 91°29′44″W / 44.252222°N 91.495556°W |
Arcadia | Carnegie library built in 1906 in Neoclassical style and stocked partly with books donated by Senator Levi Withee. |
| 2 | Capt. Alexander A. Arnold Farm |
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(#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. |
| 3 | Bartlett Blacksmith Shop-Scandinavian Hotel |
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(#84003786) |
218 East Mill Road 44°04′55″N 91°20′54″W / 44.081944°N 91.348333°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. |
| 4 | John Bohrnstedt House |
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(#84003788) |
830 Clark Street 44°05′07″N 91°21′34″W / 44.085278°N 91.359444°W |
Galesville | Fine 2.5-story brick house with gabled-ell plan built in 1901. John immigrated from Germany, farmed, served in the Civil War, and held stock in the Bank of Galesville. |
| 5 | John F. Cance House |
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(#84003790) |
807 West Ridge Avenue 44°04′59″N 91°20′48″W / 44.083056°N 91.346667°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. |
| 6 | Coman House |
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(#84000747) |
581 Third Street 44°00′16″N 91°26′04″W / 44.004444°N 91.434444°W |
Trempealeau | Brick Italianate-style house with cupola, built in 1862. |
| 7 | Downtown Historic District |
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(#84003791) |
Roughly Gale Avenue, Main, and Davis Streets 44°04′58″N 91°20′55″W / 44.082778°N 91.348611°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. |
| 8 | Gale College Historic District |
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(#84004020) |
Twelfth Street 44°04′46″N 91°22′04″W / 44.07947°N 91.367658°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. |
| 9 | Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot |
(#06000302) |
36295 Main Street 44°22′06″N 91°19′03″W / 44.368333°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. | |
| 10 | Independence City Hall |
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(#01001474) |
23688 Adams Street 44°21′27″N 91°25′16″W / 44.3575°N 91.421111°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. |
| 11 | Tollef Jensen House |
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(#84003793) |
806 West Gale Avenue 44°04′58″N 91°21′34″W / 44.082778°N 91.359444°W |
Galesville | 2.5 story Queen Anne house built in 1913 for Tollef, who owned an ice cream and confectionery shop in Galesville. |
| 12 | Main Street Historic District |
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(#84000763) |
Roughly Main Street between First and Third Streets 44°00′18″N 91°26′32″W / 44.005°N 91.442222°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. |
| 13 | Melchoir Hotel and Brewery Ruins |
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(#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. |
| 14 | Ridge Avenue Historic District |
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(#84003792) |
Roughly Ridge Avenue from Forth to Sixth Streets 44°05′01″N 91°21′18″W / 44.083611°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. |
| 15 | Schwert Mound Group |
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(#74000128) |
Address Restricted |
Trempealeau | A group of 26 conical mounds, containing Hopewell people buried in bark structures with points and pipes that indicate trade reaching from the Rocky Mountains to Lake Superior. |
| 16 | Trempealeau Platform Mounds Site |
(#91001822) |
Eastern extremity of the Trempealeau Bluffs 44°00′29″N 91°26′33″W / 44.008056°N 91.442500°W |
Trempealeau | Three Mississippian platform mounds on a bluff, built around 1000 AD. Shards of pottery from Cahokia have been found below. |
Former listing
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Second Street Bridge |
(#84000608) |
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Second Street |
Galesville | Metal, overhead Pratt truss bridge, built in 1910. |
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