National Register of Historic Places listings in Dunn County, Wisconsin facts for kids
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.
There are 8 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Current listings
Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
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1 | Colfax Municipal Building |
(#03001542) |
613 Main St. 45°00′03″N 91°43′40″W / 45.000833°N 91.727778°W |
Colfax | Designed by Carl Volkman of Eau Claire and built around 1915 with local Colfax sandstone, the building housed the police station, fire station, meeting rooms, library, auditorium and banquet hall. | |
2 | Downsville Lodge No. 1961 I.O.O.F. |
(#100000517) |
E4541 Cty Rd. C 44°46′28″N 91°55′54″W / 44.774575°N 91.931762°W |
Dunn | 2-story Odd-Fellows Hall built from sandstone block in 1908 in Romanesque Revival style. | |
3 | Evergreen Cemetery |
(#06001117) |
N end of Shorewood Dr. 44°53′21″N 91°54′35″W / 44.889167°N 91.909722°W |
Menomonie | The huge lumber company Knapp, Stout and Co. started Evergreen, overlooking Lake Menomin, in 1873. William M.R. French and Horace Cleveland planned the curving roads and views. Includes the 1901 sculpture (shown) honoring Civil War and Spanish-American War dead. | |
4 | Menomonie Downtown Historic District |
(#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 |
Menomonie | Both commercial and educational buildings in various styles, including the 1883 Italianate Lucas Block, the 1888 Italianate First National Bank, the 1889 Mabel Tainter Memorial, the 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque Bowman Hall, the 1907 Neoclassical Schutte & Quilling Bank, the 1913 Neoclassical U.S. Post Office, and the 1924 Art Deco Knights of Pythias Hall. | |
5 | Louis Smith Tainter House |
(#74000082) |
Broadway at Crescent 44°52′44″N 91°55′45″W / 44.878889°N 91.929167°W |
Menomonie | 1890 home built by Andrew Tainter, a lumberman partner in Knapp, Stout and Co., for his son. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style by Harvey Ellis. Later a women's dormitory and now offices of UW-Stout. | |
6 | Mabel Tainter Memorial Building |
(#74000083) |
205 Main St. 44°52′35″N 91°55′44″W / 44.876389°N 91.928889°W |
Menomonie | Theater, library, and meeting building completed in 1889, designed by Harvey Ellis in Richardsonian Romanesque style. Andrew Tainter and his wife built it to honor their daughter Mabel, who enjoyed the arts and died at age 19. | |
7 | Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group |
(#99000818) |
Wakanda Park 44°54′02″N 91°55′02″W / 44.900671°N 91.917115°W |
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 in one cremated wearing a clay mask. |
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