National Register of Historic Places listings in Dunn County, Wisconsin

Location of Dunn County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dunn County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Dunn 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 6 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 2, 2016.[2]

Current listings

[3] Name on the Register Image Date listed[4] Location City or town Description
1 Colfax Municipal Building
Colfax Municipal Building
January 28, 2004
(#03001542)
 613 Main St.
45°00′03″N 91°43′40″W / 45.000833°N 91.727778°W / 45.000833; -91.727778 (Colfax Municipal Building)		 Colfax Built around 1915 with local Colfax sandstone, the building housed the police station, fire station, meeting rooms, library, auditorium and banquet hall.[5]
2 Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery
December 6, 2006
(#06001117)
 N end of Shorewood Dr.
44°53′21″N 91°54′35″W / 44.889167°N 91.909722°W / 44.889167; -91.909722 (Evergreen Cemetery)		 Menomonie Knapp, Stout and Co., Menomonie's huge lumber company, started Evergreen as a private cemetery in 1873.[6]
3 Menomonie Downtown Historic District Upload image
July 14, 1986
(#86001667)
 Roughly bounded by Main and Crescent Sts., Fifth St., Wilson, and Second St. and Broadway
44°52′32″N 91°55′28″W / 44.875556°N 91.924444°W / 44.875556; -91.924444 (Menomonie Downtown Historic District)		 Menomonie Many buildings older than 100 years, including Italianate and Queen Anne styles, with facades of locally made brick and locally quarried sandstone.[7]
4 Louis Smith Tainter House
Louis Smith Tainter House
July 18, 1974
(#74000082)
 Broadway at Crescent
44°52′44″N 91°55′45″W / 44.878889°N 91.929167°W / 44.878889; -91.929167 (Louis Smith Tainter House)		 Menomonie 1890 home built by Andrew Tainter, a lumberman partner in Knapp, Stout and Co.,[8] for his son. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style by Harvey Ellis. Later a women's dormitory and now offices of UW-Stout.[9][10]
5 Mabel Tainter Memorial Building
Mabel Tainter Memorial Building
July 18, 1974
(#74000083)
 205 Main St.
44°52′35″N 91°55′44″W / 44.876389°N 91.928889°W / 44.876389; -91.928889 (Mabel Tainter Memorial Building)		 Menomonie Theater, library, and meeting building completed in 1889. Andrew Tainter and his wife built it to honor their daughter Mabel, who enjoyed the arts and died at age 19.[11]
6 Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group
Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group
July 8, 1999
(#99000818)
 Pine Ave
 Menomonie Three oval mounds remain. Before seventeen nearby mounds were submerged beneath Lake Menomin in the 1950s, some were excavated and dated 1000 to 1400 CE. A person was found cremated wearing a clay mask in one.[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Colfax Municipal Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  6. ↑ "Evergreen Cemetery". UW-Stout. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  7. ↑ "Welcome to Historic Downtown Menomonie". Main Street Menomonie, Inc. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  8. ↑ Hoffman, Arnie (1976). "Knapp-Stout Co. - perfect combination". Eaut Claire Leader Telegram special insert "Our Story". Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  9. ↑ "Louis Smith Tainter House". Dunn County Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  10. ↑ "Louis Smith Tainter House". UW-Stout. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  11. ↑ "History of the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts". Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  12. ↑ Birmingham, Robert A.; Leslie E. Eisenberg (2000). Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: Universityof Wisconsin Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-299-16874-3.
  13. ↑ "Wakanda Park Mounds". Retrieved 22 November 2012.
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