National Register of Historic Places listings in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin

Location of Trempealeau County in Wisconsin

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.^[1]

There are 16 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 December 2, 2016.^[2]

Current listings

[3]	Name on the Register[4]	Image	Date listed[5]	Location	City or town	Description
1	Arcadia Free Public Library		April 29, 1994 (#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.[6]
2	Capt. Alexander A. Arnold Farm		March 21, 1978 (#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.[7][8]
3	Bartlett Blacksmith Shop-Scandinavian Hotel		September 18, 1984 (#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.[9]
4	John Bohrnstedt House		September 18, 1984 (#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.[10] John immigrated from Germany, farmed, served in the Civil War, and held stock in the Bank of Galesville.[11]
5	John F. Cance House		September 18, 1984 (#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.[12][13]
6	Coman House		November 15, 1984 (#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.[14]
7	Downtown Historic District		September 18, 1984 (#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.[15]
8	Gale College Historic District		February 14, 1997 (#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.[16]
9	Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot	Upload image	April 19, 2006 (#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.[17]
10	Independence City Hall		January 17, 2002 (#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.[18][19]
11	Tollef Jensen House		September 18, 1984 (#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.[20]
12	Main Street Historic District		November 15, 1984 (#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.[21]
13	Melchoir Hotel and Brewery Ruins		November 15, 1984 (#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.[22]
14	Ridge Avenue Historic District		September 18, 1984 (#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.[23]
15	Schwert Mound Group		November 1, 1974 (#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.[24]
16	Trempealeau Platform Mounds Site	Upload image	December 23, 1991 (#91001822)	Eastern extremity of the Trempealeau Bluffs[25] 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.[26][27]

Former listing

[3]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	Second Street Bridge	Upload image	December 12, 1984 (#84000608)	May 18, 1988	Second Street	Galesville	Metal, overhead Pratt truss bridge, built in 1910.[28]

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin

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. National Park Service (2008-04-24). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
5. 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.
6. "Arcadia Free Public Library". Wisconsin Historic Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
7. "Captain Alexander A. Arnold Farm (Mary)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
8. "Eastside Farm". Eastside Farm. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
9. "Bartlett Blacksmith Shop - Scandinavia Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
10. "John Bohrnstedt House (John and Mary)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
11. Pierce, Eben Douglas (1917). History of Trempealeau County. Chicago and Winona: H C Cooper Jr & Co. pp. 434–435. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
12. "John F. Cance House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
13. "John F. Cance Carriage House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
14. "Coman House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
15. "List of Properties in Galesville's Downtown Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
16. "List of Buildings in the Gale College Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
17. "Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
18. "Independence City Hall (and Public Library)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
19. "Independence, WI Welcomes You!". Page on Opera House. Independence, WI. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
20. "Tollef Jensen House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
21. "List of Properties in Trempealeau's Main Street Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
22. "Melchoir Brewery and Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
23. "List of Properties in the Ridge Avenue Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
24. "Archaeology in Trempealeau, Wisconsin". Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
25. Green, William, and Roland L. Rodell. "The Mississippian Presence and Cahokia Interaction at Trempealeau, Wisconsin". American Antiquity 59.2 (1994): 334-359: 336.
26. Birmingham, Robert A.; Leslie E. Eisenberg (2000). Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 150–151. ISBN 0-299-16874-3.
27. "Mississippian Culture and Aztalan". Turning Points. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
28. "Second Street Bridge". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.